The Vatican News portal (January 9, 2026) announces the liturgical calendar of antipope Leo XIV for January-February 2026, featuring ecumenical vespers, a distorted “World Day of Consecrated Life,” and modernist Lenten rites. This schedule constitutes a sacrilegious parody of Catholic worship, revealing the conciliar sect’s complete rupture with immutable Tradition.
Ecumenical Apostasy Disguised as Prayer
The article boasts of antipope Leo XIV presiding over Second Vespers at St. Paul Outside-the-Walls on January 25 to close the “59th Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.” This abominable practice directly violates the condemnation of ecumenism by Pope Pius XI in Mortalium Animos (1928): “The unity of Christians cannot be fostered otherwise than by fostering the return to the one true Church of Christ of those who are separated from it.” The conciliar sect’s focus on Ephesians 4:4 (“one body, one Spirit”) deliberately omits verse 5’s “one Lord, one faith, one baptism” – exposing their heresy of indifferentism. As the Syllabus of Errors declares: “Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion, in which form it is given to please God equally as in the Catholic Church” (Condemned Proposition 18).
Subversion of Consecrated Life
The February 2 “Feast of the Presentation” liturgy doubles as the “thirtieth World Day of Consecrated Life” – a modernist invention contradicting Pope Pius XII’s Sponsa Christi (1950). The article’s claim that this day is “an invitation to rediscover the beauty of consecrated life” rings hollow when the conciliar sect has systematically destroyed religious orders through:
- Suppression of habit-wearing (against Canon 596 §1 of 1917 Code)
- Abandonment of cloister rules (contrary to Vultum Dei Quaerere by Pius XII)
- Promotion of feminist “empowerment” in defiance of Lamentabili Sane‘s condemnation of democratizing Church structures
The “Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life” proves its apostasy by urging “missionary commitment” while remaining silent about the vow of conversion that true religious make to combat heresy.
Lenten Mockery of Penance
The Ash Wednesday rites at Santa Sabina continue the deadly innovation introduced by antipope John XXIII, who perverted the ancient “statio” procession into a publicity stunt. True Catholics recall Pope Benedict XV’s warning in Humani Generis Redemptionem (1917): “The chief cause of the present indifference and, as it were, infirmity of soul, and the serious evils that result from it, is to be found in vice and pride.” The conciliar sect’s “Spiritual Exercises” (February 22-27) constitute spiritual malpractice by:
- Holding them in the Apostolic Palace rather than a monastic setting
- Presuming to preach to the Roman Curia despite being invalid ministers
- Replacing Ignatian meditation with modernist “discernment” techniques condemned in Pascendi Dominici Gregis
Liturgical Office as Instrument of Revolution
The article cites Praedicate Evangelium (2022) to describe the “Office for Liturgical Celebrations” – the very body implementing the Novus Ordo abomination. Archbishop Diego Ravelli’s ceremonial pretenses cannot conceal how this office:
“…prepares whatever is needed for the liturgical… celebrations… according to the current prescriptions of liturgical law”
The phrase “current prescriptions” reveals the rupture with Pope St. Pius V’s Quo Primum, which established the Tridentine Mass “in perpetuity.” As Pope Leo XIII taught in Apostolicae Curae (1896): “In the administration of sacraments, the valid matter and form must be used.” The conciliar sect’s invalid rites constitute “actus irreformabiles” (irreformable acts) of apostasy.
The Vatican News calendar demonstrates the conciliar sect’s complete inversion of Catholic worship – replacing propitiatory sacrifice with communal meals, substituting adoration with activism, and exchanging sacramental grace for humanist solidarity. As Pope Pius XI declared in Quas Primas (1925): “When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony.” Until the Roman usurpers restore Christ’s Social Kingship, their liturgies remain satanic counterfeits.
Source:
Vatican releases calendar of upcoming papal liturgies (vaticannews.va)
Date: 09.01.2026