The Montclair Clergy Association will once again host the annual Interfaith observance of Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day. MontclairCatholics are urged to attend this important interfaith service on Wednesday, April 30, at 7:30 PM at Congregation Bnai Keshet in Montclair.
In this Service, we will gather as a community of faith to remember the victims of the Holocaust of European Jewry in World War II and to recommit ourselves to take action against present-day examples of genocide. We will listen to the story of a Holocaust survivor - a living witness - and we will read from Bnai Keshet’s ‘Czech Torah’, recently acquired from a collection of sacred scrolls that were rescued from being destroyed in the Holocaust in Czechoslovakia, and which bear silent witness to its lost community of Holocaust victims.
Speaking at a Vatican concert commemorating the Shoah in 1994, the late Pope John Paul II said, “It is not enough that we remember; for in our own day, regrettably, there are many new manifestations of the anti-Semitism, xenophobia and racial hatred which were the seeds of those unspeakable crimes. Humanity cannot permit all that to happen again.
With the help of Almighty God we can work together to prevent the repetition of such heinous evil”. Come and be part of this special Service of interfaith prayer and solidarity.
"Memories of that horrific time in our common history demand that we continue to remember, purposefully, both the individuals lost and the attitudes that tolerated or allowed the systematic assault on Jews, and other victims of Nazi hate, to go unchallenged," said Msgr. Timothy Shugrue of Immaculate Conception.
"We must never forget, because it is too easy for people to slip into the trap of rationalizing suspicion and to ignore similar attacks upon the fundamental dignity of the human person at other times and in other places. Sadly, the lessons we should draw from the Holocaust need reinforcement in our contemporary world, and that is the point behind the annual Yom Ha Shoah observance."
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