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The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast

Fr. Mike Reacts to Olympics "Last Supper"

The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast

Ascension

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.97.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Perhaps you've heard about the blasphemous debacle that occurred during the Olympics opening ceremonies, when a scandalous parody of the Last Supper was broadcast around the world. Christian media voices across the internet (and Catholic leaders around the world) have responded with the condemnation that the "performance" deserves.

But Fr. Mike has what he hopes is a bit of a fresh take on the situation, as well as something that you and I can do today in direct response to this—and all other—blasphemy.

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0:00.0

Here we go.

0:01.0

It's coming.

0:02.0

It's me.

0:03.0

I'm late to the party.

0:04.0

That's fine.

0:05.0

I don't care. I usually don't do hot takes.

0:06.0

I in the sense I usually don't do like recent news.

0:08.0

Sometimes it's wise to let the temperature come down a little bit

0:12.0

before commenting on something,

0:13.5

just adding fuel to the fire. But here's what I've been praying about for the last

0:16.7

couple weeks, especially with regards to the Olympics and the opening ceremonies.

0:20.3

Number one, here's a couple things.

0:22.8

I really appreciate those who have stood up for the Lord

0:26.4

and stood up for the Church and said,

0:28.3

hey, that's not good, and this is wrong, this is insulting,

0:31.4

and then even worse than insulting insulting this is blasphemous.

0:34.8

Number two I've also heard the declaration from the people who are organizers

0:39.7

saying like oh no no no this wasn't inspired by Leonardo da Vinci's last supper.

0:44.6

This was actually the Feast of Dionysius and blah blah blah blah and I don't know I don't

0:51.3

if you're familiar with the term gas lighting.

0:55.0

They kind of say, the cat's out of the bag.

0:56.5

The third thing is, the third thing is, I'm not surprised. The third thing is I'm not surprised. This is a line

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