Pastor’s Thoughts

Aug 5, 2024

I trust everyone was outraged at the presentation/parade in Olympics held in Paris making a mockery of the Last Supper they say it was not, most of us believe it was! My question is this: Why even chose a contradictory depiction of what they called a ‘myth’ story that is so parallel to our Lord’s Last Supper? Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, who heads the Vatican thinktank on human life and society, also commented on the “derision and the ridicule of the last supper” during the Olympic ceremony on X. “It reveals a profound question: everyone, truly everyone, wants to sit at that table where Jesus gave his life for all and taught love,” he wrote. The French bishops were among the first to push back against the “scenes of derision and mockery of Christianity” in a statement on Saturday (July 27). “We think of all Christians worldwide who were hurt by the excess and provocation of certain scenes,” they wrote, adding that they hope faithful will see beyond “the ideological biases of a few artists.” Pray, Pray, Pray. Fr. Roach