Apostate Gestures in Lebanon: A False Shepherd’s Hollow Rituals
VaticanNews portal (November 30, 2025) reports that the usurper of the Apostolic See, Robert Prevost, styling himself “Pope” Leo XIV, visited the “Carmelite Sisters of the Theotokos” in Harissa, Lebanon, during his apostolic journey. The article describes a 30-minute encounter where the antipope “greeted each sister individually,” received greetings from “superiors,” and delivered remarks centered on “humility, prayer and sacrifice,” concluding with a recited Pater Noster and an “Apostolic Blessing.” This saccharine narrative conceals a *spiritual void* (vacuum spirituale) beneath its ritualistic veneer.
Illegitimate Authority Nullifies Sacramental Façade
The very premise of the event rests on a foundational lie: the pretension of Robert Prevost to possess papal authority. As St. Robert Bellarmine establishes in De Romano Pontifice, “a manifest heretic cannot be Pope” (Lib. II, cap. 30). The conciliar sect’s leaders—beginning with Angelo Roncalli (“John XXIII”)—publicly propagated heresies condemned in Pius IX’s Syllabus Errorum (1864) and Pius X’s Lamentabili Sane (1907), including religious indifferentism (errors 15-18, 21-22) and denial of Christ’s social kingship (errors 39-42, 55). Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code explicitly voids all offices held by those who “publicly defect from the Catholic faith”—a condition fulfilled by Prevost’s adherence to Vatican II’s apostate teachings. Thus, his “blessing” constitutes not a sacramental act but a blasphemous simulation, akin to Caiaphas invoking God’s name while condemning Truth Himself (John 11:49-51).
Theotokos as Theological Bait: Modernist Subversion of Contemplative Life
The article’s emphasis on the community’s title “of the Theotokos” (God-bearer) serves as orthodox window-dressing for doctrinal corruption. Authentic Carmelite spirituality, as defined by St. Teresa of Avila and St. John of the Cross, demands total separation from the world (1 John 2:15) and uncompromising adherence to Tradition. Yet these “sisters” submit to a sect that:
replaced the Divine Office with a fabricated “Liturgy of the Hours,” dismantled cloister discipline under Paul VI’s Ecclesiae Sanctae (1966), and reduced contemplation to “social dialogue” (Bergoglio, Evangelii Gaudium §183).
Pius XI’s Quas Primas (1925) condemns such naturalism: “If princes and magistrates… would permit the Church to teach her Liberties… and enjoy her rights, sweet peace and tranquility would follow.” Instead, Prevost’s focus on “humility” devoid of doctrinal fidelity mirrors the Modernist heresy of “vital immanence”—reducing faith to subjective experience (Pius X, Pascendi Dominici Gregis §6-7).
Omissions Expose Apostate Priorities
The VaticanNews account glaringly avoids all supernatural realities:
– No mention of reparation for sins through Eucharistic adoration—the charism of true Carmelites.
– No reference to the sisters’ vows as a holocaustum vivens (living sacrifice) for the Church’s restoration.
– Silence on the state of grace required for valid religious life, impossible under conciliarism’s invalid sacraments.
This mirrors the sect’s broader agenda: replacing contemplatio with worldly activism, as seen in Bergoglio’s suppression of the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate (2013). Prevost’s mechanical recitation of the Our Father—a prayer demanding “Thy Kingdom come” in opposition to his humanistic agenda—unwittingly condemns his own false stewardship.
Historical Parallels: From Eli’s House to the Abomination of Desolation
The sisters’ acceptance of Prevost’s visit recalls the corruption of Israel’s priesthood under Eli, whose sons “lay with the women who assembled at the door of the tabernacle” (1 Samuel 2:22) while maintaining ritual formalities. Pope Pius XII’s Sacra Virginitas (1954) warns that religious life decays when “the gravity of the sacred promises is forgotten.” By welcoming a manifest heretic as “Vicar of Christ,” these “Carmelites” participate in the abomination of desolation (Daniel 11:31)—the usurpation of holy places by false shepherds.
St. Vincent Ferrer’s prophecy applies acutely: “The Great Schism will end… with an antipope elected by the clergy who will be a wicked man.” Prevost’s staged piety in Harissa continues this schismatic legacy, offering not the “sacrifice of praise” (Hebrews 13:15) but empty theater to legitimize apostasy.
Source:
Pope Leo XIV visits Carmelite Sisters in Harissa, Lebanon (vaticannews.va)
Date: 30.11.2025