The EWTN/ACI Prensa propaganda apparatus reports on August 17, 2026, that a “priest” and “nun” of the conciliar sect in Colombia entered a quake-damaged chapel to retrieve “consecrated hosts” from the debris, performing a ritual of collection, dissolution in water, and disposal upon plants, all while citing the 1992 Catechism of the “Catholic Church” as authority. This theater of piety, enacted by Father Germán Andrés Clavijo and Sister Marcela of the “Community of the Blessed Sacrament,” exposes the utter bankruptcy of the post-conciliar religion: it simulates reverence for the Blessed Sacrament while denying the very priesthood and sacrifice by which That Sacrament exists.
The Nullity of the Minister Invalidates the Act
The entire narrative rests on the premise that Father Germán Andrés Clavijo is a valid priest and that the “Mass celebrated the previous Saturday” produced the Real Presence. From the perspective of integral Catholic theology, this premise is false ab initio. The “ordination” rites of the conciliar sect, promulgated by the antipope Paul VI in 1968 (Pontificale Romanum), stripped the form of the essential signification of the sacerdotal power to offer the Propitiatory Sacrifice and to consecrate the Body and Blood of Christ. As Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre himself acknowledged—though he inconsistently recognized the usurpers in the Vatican—these rites are “doubtful” at best; in reality, they are invalid ex defectu formae. Consequently, no valid priesthood exists in the conciliar structures, and therefore no valid Eucharist. The “hosts” scattered in the rubble were mere unconsecrated bread. To treat them as the Corpus Domini is not piety but idolatry, a worship of the creature rather than the Creator (Rom 1:25).
The “Defense of Sedevacantism” file establishes the theological principle: a manifest heretic cannot be Pope, and by extension, those ordained in the new rite by heretical “bishops” who themselves lack jurisdiction and valid orders receive no sacramental character. St. Robert Bellarmine teaches: “A non-Christian in no way can be Pope… he cannot be the head of something of which he is not a member; now, he who is not a Christian is not a member of the Church, and a manifest heretic is not a Christian… therefore, a manifest heretic cannot be Pope” (De Romano Pontifice 2:30). The same principle applies to the episcopate and priesthood. The “priest” Clavijo, formed in the neo-church, is a functionary of a paramasonic structure, not an alter Christus.
The Novus Ordo “Mass”: A Table of Assembly, Not the Sacrifice of Calvary
The article states the hosts were “left over from the Mass celebrated the previous Saturday.” This “Mass” is the Novus Ordo Missae, a fabrication of the Freemason Annibale Bugnini and his modernist cohorts, explicitly designed to Protestantize the liturgy by suppressing the Offertory, the Canon of Silence, and the explicit theology of the Propitiatory Sacrifice. Pope Pius XII, in Mediator Dei (1947), warned that the liturgy is the primary organ of the ordinary Magisterium; to change the lex orandi is to change the lex credendi. The conciliar “Mass” manifests a theology of memorial and community meal, not of Sacrifice. Therefore, even if a validly ordained priest (impossible in the sect) used the new rite with the intention of “doing what the Church does,” the rite itself, as a public act of the sect, signifies a false theology. The “consecration” within that rite lacks the intentio faciendi quod facit Ecclesia in its Catholic sense, because the “Church” the rite serves is the ecclesia haereticorum, the conciliar sect.
The “Catechism of the Catholic Church” (1992), cited in the article (No. 1377), is a modernist compendium condemned by its very novelty. It teaches a “Eucharistic presence” detached from the Sacrifice, a presence that “endures as long as the Eucharistic species subsist” — a formula that lends itself to the adoration of the species per se, severed from the Sacrificium laudis. This is the theology of the Theses of the Modernists condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (1907): “The sacraments merely serve to remind man of the presence of the ever-benevolent Creator” (Prop. 41). The conciliar sect practices this Protestantized “remembrance.”
Ritualistic Sacrilege: The “Protocol” of the Neo-Church
The description of the “recovery” is a liturgy of sacrilege in itself. “As they picked them up by hand, both recited the ‘litanies to the Blessed Sacrament… and placed them into a smaller ciborium.” Lay hands (the “nun” is not a priest) touching the Sacred Species — even if valid — is permitted only to the consecrated fingers of the priest (Canon 1306, 1917 Code; De Defectibus, Missale Romanum). The “Community of the Blessed Sacrament” is a post-conciliar institute, likely infected with the charismatic contagion, its members devoid of canonical mission.
“Regarding the hosts that were mixed in with dirt and debris, Clavijo said: ‘I told her they must be placed in a container of water so that they would dissolve’ and the water could later be poured by a tree or into a potted plant.” This is the prescribed method for the corrupted species (when the accidents of bread cease), to be poured into the sacrarium or the ground in a reverent place. But here, the “priest” directs a “nun” to dissolve invalid bread in a bucket and pour it on a potted plant — a grotesque parody of the reverence due to the Precious Blood (into which the water would be changed if the species were valid). It is simulated piety masking diabolical mockery. The “litanies” recited over crumbs of unconsecrated bread are vanitas vanitatum.
Naturalistic Humanism Masquerading as Supernatural Hope
The linguistic level reveals the naturalistic core. The “priest” says: “It wasn’t the time for lamenting; after all, the earthquake had just happened, and we were in a very unsafe spot…” Pragmatism over piety. The “Eucharist” is called “the life of the priest; that is the life of the Church; it is our center” — a subjective, existentialist definition, devoid of the objective reality of the Sacrificium Propitiatorium for the living and the dead. The reference to the Gospel (Peter walking on water) is twisted into a generic “God reaches out his hand” motivational speech. “With hope and God’s hand, all of us united, will overcome this storm.” This is the cult of man condemned by Pius XI in Quas Primas: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” The “priest” offers no call to penance, no mention of sin as the cause of chastisement (Amos 3:6), no invocation of the Social Kingship of Christ over Colombia. Only a bland “blessing” in the name of the Trinity — invalid, as he lacks jurisdiction and the potestas ordinis validly exercised.
The Structural Apostasy: EWTN, ACI Prensa, and the “Leo XIV” Narrative
The source, EWTN/ACI Prensa, is the media arm of the conciliar sect, founded by the “Mother Angelica” network, fully integrated into the “Pope Leo XIV” (Robert Prevost) antipapacy. The related articles listed — “Pope Leo XIV expresses sorrow for the victims…”, “Latin American bishops pray for Colombia…” — confirm the ecclesial framework: the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matt 24:15). The “bishops” are the episcopi haereticorum of the neo-church. The “national heritage building” status of the chapel underscores the secularization: the faith is reduced to cultural patrimony, managed by the Masonic Colombian state. The “priest” says restoration “will depend on the Colombian government.” Caesar rules the temple; the rex sacrorum is a state functionary.
Symptomatic Conclusion: The Fruit of the Conciliar Revolution
This event is a signum contradictorium. It demonstrates the total victory of the hermeneutic of rupture. The “priest” and “nun” risk life for bread they believe is God, yet they serve a sect that has abolished the Mass, destroyed the priesthood, and enthroned the Antichrist in the Vatican. Their “heroism” is the heroism of the Macchabees inverted: they die (or risk death) for the idol of the new covenant, not the Veritas of the Old and New. St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907) diagnosed the Modernist method: “They aim at such a development of dogmas as appears to be their corruption.” Here, the dogma of the Real Presence is “developed” into a disaster-response photo-op for the neo-church’s media machine.
The faithful Catholic, adhering to the Quo Primum Mass of St. Pius V, the unchanging Magisterium, and the vacant See of Peter since 1958, sees in this Colombian rubble not the Corpus Domini, but the ruins of the Faith in the conciliar sect. “Unless the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it” (Ps 126:1). The true Church endures in the catacombs, celebrating the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary at hidden altars, awaiting the restoration of all things in Christ the King (Eph 1:10). The “hosts” in Roldanillo are dust; the Hostia Immortalitatis reigns in the true Mass, usque ad consummationem saeculi.
Source:
Priest and nun recover sacred hosts from earthquake rubble in Colombia (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 17.08.2026