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The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast

Fr. Mike Got a Tattoo?!?

The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast

Ascension

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Christianity

4.97.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

What happened? Did Fr. Mike change his mind on tattoos?

Today Fr. Mike reveals his recent tattoo, why he got it, and why he’s not really happy about it.

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0:00.0

Here we go everyone, Thunderbolt the Sleeves.

0:04.0

How many of his father Mike Smith's and this is the center presents.

0:06.3

So you might know this, but one of the videos that we made

0:10.6

that I think it has the most views

0:13.4

was on the question of, can I get a tattoo or should I get a tattoo or something like that?

0:17.9

Something about tattoos.

0:18.9

And in that video, kind of talked about how in the Old Testament,

0:21.8

in the book of Leviticus, in the book of Leviticus chapter 19,

0:25.1

it says, don't get tattoos, don't mark your body, don't cut up your body.

0:28.6

That's good.

0:29.9

And that's in the Bible.

0:31.2

We also talked about how and why in the New Covenant,

0:33.8

that would no longer be applicable to those in the covenant.

0:37.1

If your tattoos mean that you're concentrating yourself to something other than God,

0:40.7

then yeah, don't do that.

0:42.1

If your tattoos mean that you're concentrating yourself for the dead or to the dead,

0:45.5

then yes, don't do that.

0:46.8

But if they don't mean that, I would say there isn't a prohibition specifically or explicitly

0:51.7

against any and all kind of tattoos.

0:53.2

I also talked about how there are some reasons to avoid a tattoo.

0:55.7

Number one, if they're of an evil

0:58.6

thing, so it's something that would be satanic, something that would be what's the word

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