FR. RIPPERGER ON ST. MICHAEL AND THE JEWS During his recent appearance on @ShawnRyanShow, Fr. Chad Ripperger explained that “St. Michael is actually the guardian angel of the elect,” meaning those whom God knows will persevere unto the end in His grace and thus be saved (cf. Matt. 10:22, 24:13). “Because he’s the guardian angel of the elect,” Fr. Ripperger went on, “that also means that he became the guardian angel of the Jews — the Jewish religion — in the beginning, because they were the chosen people. But once, according to the Fathers of the Church, they apostatized and rejected Christ, they ceased being the chosen religion and the chosen people, and now it’s transferred to Christians who believe in Christ.” Regarding the Jews, Fr. Ripperger emphasized “the big mistake that people make is still thinking that the Jews are the chosen people. They were,” he said, “but they rejected their inheritance. They refused to accept Christ.” Source: youtube.com/watch?v=I2p_cfip… Fr. Ripperger’s words have no doubt upset a lot of people, but his words are true nonetheless. When the Jews attempted to justify themselves to Our Lord, relying on their natural descend from Abraham, He told them: “If you be the children of Abraham, do the works of Abraham” (John 8:39) — namely, believe in Him, the promised Messiah, as Abraham did (cf. John 8:56, 58). And because they chose to reject Him, He told them most sternly: “You are of your father, the devil: and the desires of your father you will do” (John 8:44). This is why we (Catholics) pray for the conversion of the Jews every year on Good Friday: xitter.cf/MattGaspers/status/191… As for the Fathers of the Church, they do indeed teach that Christians are the true “Israel of God” (Gal. 6:16). St. Justin Martyr (d. ca. 165), for example, wrote that Christians are “the true Israelitic race” (Dialogue with Trypho the Jew, Ch. 135): newadvent.org/fathers/01289.… Similarly, St. Augustine (d. 430) wrote, “They then are more truly Jews, who have been made Christians out of Jews: the rest of the Jews, who in Christ have not believed, have deserved to lose even the very name. The true Judæa, then, is the Church of Christ,” and further, that “the true Sion is the Church of Christians” (Exposition on Psalm 76): newadvent.org/fathers/180107…