By now, almost the entire world knows of France’s most recent national shame: the Olympic Opening ceremony. It lauded vice and intentionally insulted Catholics under the guise of being the “creme de la creme” of modern culture. Although somewhat sour to our tastes, transvestites, gluttonous lesbians, pagans and hedonists mocked Scripture and even the person of Jesus Christ.
The event also derided Marie Antoinette, the Catholic Queen of France who was beheaded at the height of the French Revolution. The inclusion of Marie Antoinette is an interesting one, as the Opening Ceremony was held on July 26th, which is the anniversary of the violent murder of a French Catholic priest. In 2016, the elderly Fr. Jacques Hamel was killed while offering Mass in his small parish in northern France. The perpetrators were two 19 year-old members of the Islamic State to whom Fr. Hamel cried, “Begone, Satan!” before having his throat slit.
As if that wasn’t enough, the Ceremony, televised across the world to families with little children, included a segment featuring a threesome, reminding viewers that it was France who legitimised these groupings under the term ménage à trois. [Don’t forget it was also the French who immortalised prophylactic contraception under the title French Letters. The Olympic Committee distributed 200,000 of these to competitors as the Games began.]
Much of the pageantry was centred around death and destruction, with bloody displays, a decaying Statue of Liberty and a figure representing an Apocalyptic horseman. Included was strange a segment showing singers “dying suddenly” on a blood-red dance-floor. This apparent reference to the destructive Gene Serum brings to mind the 2012 London Olympics which predicted the pandemic using images of sick children and the Grim Reaper holding something resembling a syringe.
Now blasphemy is a matter that needs serious reparation. According to Thomas Aquinas, it is worse than murder, even worse than killing a poor old priest during Mass (although if that was intended as an insult to God then it is blasphemy AND murder.)
In France, the SSPX announced that its parishes would pray the penitential Psalm, De Profundis and chant the sorrowful Parce Domine at the conclusion of every Mass on Sunday July 28th. God bless them for that and may many more parishes follow suit.
And the Pope? What did the leader of 2.6 billion Catholics have to say about this disgrace? Well, during his Sunday Angelus address, the Pope did mention the Ceremony – only to condemn the “scandal” of war. [Wars are bad and some athletes are from countries at war, so that’s the connection. Obviously. Talk about drawing a long bow and then failing to hit the bullseye.]
Yet, all is not lost for France, eldest daughter of the Church. While humans were struggling with a sabotaged subway system and torrential rain, God Himself chose to intervene in this highly chaotic situation. During a blackout across the 18th arrondissement, one building remained illuminated. That building? Sacré Coeur basilica.
Yes, lights continued to shine from the Basilica dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, while a significant section of Paris went dark. Readers should note that the Church traditionally dedicates a whole month to the Sacred Heart. In recent times, that same month, June, has been dedicated by secular authorities to a sin which cries to heaven for vengeance and has become known as PRIDE month.
The gracious Lord, instead of smiting Paris with fire and brimstone, drew attention to Himself in a manner more like the gentle breeze He used to catch the attention of Elijah. A good lesson for we impatient mortal beings.
Ecclesiastical Freemasonry 