Because they are constantly reminded of the sin of their nation throughout the whole day and HARDEN THEIR HEARTS to the beautiful and heart wrenching words that are sung throughout the Solemn Liturgy...

Ecc ch.17 tells us a ruler is appointed over every nation, part of the heavenly Powers/Thrones/Dominations and that Israel was specifically given to Christ, the 2nd person in Trinity....

yet they loudly rejected him for a foreign, pagan ruler.....

14 Over every nation he set a ruler. 15 And Israel was made the manifest portion of God.

Hence, the Angel of Portugal was its ruler.....God divided the world into 70 nations...70 scholars compiled the Septuagint.you see the number crop up many times.....

John 19:15:But they cried out: Away with him; away with him; crucify him. Pilate saith to them: Shall I crucify your king? The chief priests answered: We have no king but Caesar.

They wanted a pagan man that set himeslf up as a god instead of the true God....