![The late (d. 2012) Norman St John-Stevas, Baron St John of Fawsley, PC, FRSL - pictured in service as Grand Bailiff of The Military and Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem; The Grand Priory of England and Wales; Free License Attribution: MHOSLJ [FAL], via Wikimedia Commons](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUiJdBRHmmSgZU4JGU1k22l0I5DxbduMIhQdKPr680MO-366N_UjvWnExErjdiuqGKsHpAgWjJ-ij5UNff5Mg8K4qJ6bqOJpYMrW2lmcqAxksCSSDuBhBcyht-pUbve7CJJ8sUAkqj-dM/s400/StJohn-Stevas.tiff "The late (d. 2012) Norman St John-Stevas, Baron St John of Fawsley, PC, FRSL - pictured in service as Grand Bailiff of The Military and Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem; The Grand Priory of England and Wales; Free License Attribution: MHOSLJ [FAL], via Wikimedia Commons")
“Pope John gave us an indication of his own frame of mind on the subject when he had the formula praying for the 'perfidious Jews' removed from the Easter liturgy. Since then the Jews have been prayed for in the same manner as everybody else and without any insulting adjectives.”
– Norman St John-Stevas
We offer a different – probably unique – though very illuminating and contemporaneous perspective on the petty nonsense peddled by the Catholic Bishops of England and Wales late last month, who effectively called for the abolition of the already thrice revised Prayer for the Jews (last re-written in 2008 by Pope Benedict XVI), as currently used in the Extraordinary Form (EF) of the Solemn Good Friday liturgy (per the 1962 Missal of Pope St John XXIII), and presumably for it to be replaced by that currently used in the Ordinary Form (OF) liturgy (per the 1970 Missal of Blessed Pope Paul VI).
