S&F: Dinnertime

Today begins the most important part of the year to Catholics, the Easter Tridium.  Our service tonight is a special one focusing first on the humility of Jesus by washing the feet of his disciples.  The service then moves onto the centerpiece of our faith, the gift of the body and the blood of Christ in the Eucharist.

I don't know if all Christians hold the Last Supper in such high regard as Catholics, but I would assume that part of being a Christian and following the bible means that they too hold some sort of reverence to the events of Holy Thursday.

We, as Christians, should be unified in the events that happened over the next 3 days and their importance regardless of the differences in some of our dogmatic beliefs.

This is the first Holy Thursday, where we celebrate the Last Supper, since the ridiculing of the Leonardo DaVinci painting at the Olympics opening ceremonies.  I know that the painting is just a depiction of DaVinci's view of the events in the upper room, but in that moment the organizers thought it was ok to make fun of the beliefs of billions of people in the world.

Why is it ok to make fun of and ridicule Christians but not other religions?  What would have been the reaction if there was mockery of social issues like LGBT or racial discrimination?  I dare say the Olympics may have been shut down.

I was disappointed on the response from Rome and the Pope following the Olympic opening ceremony controversy.  I didn't hear any outcry from other Christian churches as well.  Its time we, as believers in Christ, notice the presence of evil in the world today.  It's our job to call it out and evangelize for the saving of people involved in the sin ridiculing God.  We should be calling out the hypocrisy of those people who support and allow the mocking of our beliefs. 

I pray for the unification of all Christians against modern contempt of our consolidated faith.  It is time for us to stop being pushovers, afraid to proclaim and defend our faith.  We need to stop being afraid to push back when we are mocked.  We have many biblical examples in church history of people risking their lives to defend Jesus.  Some of them lost their life.  In most cases we will never have to defend our faith over risk of our life.  But we shouldn't be afraid to defend our beliefs in the Lord because someone might cancel us.