Catholic News Agency reports nearly two million participants will join Poland’s Three Kings Procession across 941 locations on January 6, 2026. The event features costumed parades, paper crowns, and carol singing, broadcast internationally by EWTN Poland. Organizers distributed 600,000 crowns and 200,000 stickers, framing the spectacle under the slogan “Rejoice in Hope” – a deliberate alignment with the Vatican’s “Pilgrims of Hope” jubilee theme. Polish president Karol Nawrocki praised the procession’s message of “reconciliation” and “mutual solidarity.” What began as a Warsaw school project in 2009 has become a state-sponsored religious performance, revealing the neo-church’s abandonment of supernatural faith for naturalistic pageantry.
Substitution of Sacramental Worship for Theatrical Spectacle
The transformation of Epiphany – a liturgical celebration of Christ’s manifestation as Rex Gentium (King of Nations) – into a street festival constitutes sacrilegious trivialization. Quas Primas (1925) solemnly defined that “the faithful must be instructed in the truths of faith, elevated by them to the joy of interior life” through sacred liturgy (Pius XI). The article’s description of “participants who dress as biblical characters” and “sing Christmas carols” replaces the Mass’s adorationem in spiritu et veritate (worship in spirit and truth, John 4:24) with Protestantized revelry.
No mention appears of the Holy Sacrifice offered in churches, nor of the traditional blessing of Epiphany water, chalk, and incense – the very sacramentals that manifest Christ’s dominion over creation. Instead, organizers boast of distributing 600,000 paper crowns – a mockery of the Triregnum (papal tiara) abolished by post-conciliar modernists. The procession’s theatrical nature (“figures representing the Magi to Nativity scenes”) mirrors Luther’s rejection of sacramental realism in favor of symbolic memorialism.
Naturalization of the Supernatural Order
President Nawrocki’s statement exposes the event’s ideological foundation: “May the image of three monarchs who, despite adversity, pursued their goal — peace and reconciliation — inspire us all to build relationships based on mutual solidarity, understanding, and respect.” This reduction of the Magi’s pilgrimage to a mere humanitarian exercise constitutes formal heresy against Catholic eschatology.
The Wise Men sought not earthly “reconciliation” but divine worship, following the star to “fall down and adore Him” (Matthew 2:11). Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors condemned the notion that “the Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55), yet the procession’s organizers willingly accept this secular framework. By omitting the Magi’s proskynesis (adoration) and their offering of gold (for Christ’s kingship), frankincense (His divinity), and myrrh (His sacrifice), the event denies the munus triplex (threefold office) of Christ as Priest, Prophet, and King.
Ecumenical Subversion of Catholic Identity
The article’s admission that processions incorporate elements “from Spain and Mexico” while ignoring Poland’s authentic Jasełka (Nativity play) tradition reveals deliberate syncretism. Lamentabili Sane (1907) condemned the modernist error that “Christian doctrine was initially Jewish, but through gradual development… became Greek and universal” (Proposition 60). This procession exemplifies that condemned evolutionary model – a fusion of Spanish cabalgatas (which themselves originated from medieval mystery plays) and Mexican folk piety, stripped of doctrinal content.
EWTN’s role in broadcasting the event globally underscores its function within the conciliar sect’s false ecumenism. Founded by a nun who embraced Vatican II’s religious liberty heresies (Mother Angelica), this network promotes the very indifferentism condemned by Pope Pius IX: “Good hope at least is to be entertained of the eternal salvation of all those who are not at all in the true Church of Christ” (Error 17). When organizers distribute “150,000 songbooks with Christmas carols” to mixed crowds of believers and unbelievers, they facilitate the sacrilege warned against in Quas Primas: rendering to Caesar what belongs to God alone.
Theological Omissions Exposing Modernist Apostasy
Nowhere does the article mention the procession’s culmination in Holy Mass or Eucharistic adoration – the raison d’être of Catholic worship. This omission confirms the event’s discontinuity with tradition, where Epiphany processions (like those in pre-1958 Rome) concluded with the Pope offering Mass at St. Peter’s Basilica. The replacement of sacramental worship with a “ceremonial procession” (as described) fulfills St. Pius X’s warning in Pascendi Dominici Gregis about modernists reducing religion to “vital immanence” – mere human sentiment devoid of transcendence.
The slogan “Rejoice in Hope” perverts the theological virtue of hope (spes), which the Catechism of the Council of Trent defines as “the certain expectation of future bliss” through God’s merits. Instead, organizers reduce hope to natural optimism, with director Anna Murawska speaking of “maintaining hope in everyday life” rather than the Beatific Vision. This naturalization of supernatural virtues constitutes the “cult of man” denounced by Pope St. Pius X as the essence of modernism.
Conclusion: A Parade of Apostasy
When two million Catholics prefer street theater to the Traditional Latin Mass on a holy day of obligation, the spiritual bankruptcy of post-conciliar Poland stands revealed. The Three Kings Procession embodies the conciliar church’s betrayal of Regnum Christi (the Kingdom of Christ) for the humanistic “civilization of love.” As true Catholics keep the feast in Eucharistic adoration – mourning Poland’s descent from the Antemurale Christianitatis (Bulwark of Christendom) to a producer of religious pageantry – they recall Pius XI’s warning: “When God and Jesus Christ… are removed from laws and states… the entire human society had to be shaken” (Quas Primas). Let the Wise Men’s true legacy be our uncompromising adoration of the Divine King – not paper crowns distributed by apostates.
Source:
Nearly 2 million people to march in Poland for Three Kings Procession (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 05.01.2026