EWTN News, the flagship media organ of the conciliar sect, reports on a “prayer walk” scheduled for September 26, 2026, from Byblos to the shrine of St. Charbel in Annaya, Lebanon. The initiative, organized by Anthony Jarjour, a native of the border village of Rmeich, is framed as an act of “solidarity and hope” for Christians remaining in the war-torn south. The pilgrimage enjoys the cooperation of the Monastery of St. Maron, local municipalities, the Lebanese Civil Defense, and the Red Cross. Jarjour, a volunteer with Caritas and the Red Cross, explicitly seeks to add a “spiritual dimension” to his humanitarian service. The piece, originally published by ACI MENA (EWTN’s Arabic service), betrays a total reduction of the Church’s mission to temporal humanitarianism and naturalistic patriotism, utterly devoid of the social reign of Christ the King (Quas Primas) and the absolute necessity of the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary for the salvation of souls.
The Conciliar Media Apparatus as Propagandist for Naturalism
The source itself condemns the content. EWTN News and its sister service ACI MENA are not Catholic organs; they are the propaganda arms of the neo-church, the paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican since the usurpation of John XXIII. Their function is to normalize a religion of man in place of the religion of God. The article’s byline—Romy Haber, a “journalist and researcher… specializing in minority affairs in the Middle East”—signals the secular, sociological lens through which the Faith is viewed. The “news” is not the proclamation of the Gospel ad gentes or the defense of Christ’s rights over nations (Pius XI, Quas Primas, §31), but the chronicling of a civic-religious parade sanctioned by the very civil authorities that the Syllabus of Pius IX condemns for claiming the right to “define what are the rights of the Church” (Error 19). When the conciliar sect reports on “pilgrimages,” it manufactures a counterfeit piety to distract from the abomination of desolation enthroned in Rome.
St. Charbel: A Post-Conciliar “Saint” for a Counterfeit Church
The destination, the shrine of St. Charbel Makhlouf, canonized in 1977 by the antipope Paul VI, is a fruit of the conciliar revolution. The canonizations of the neo-church possess no infallible guarantee; they are administrative acts of a false magisterium designed to populate a counterfeit calendar with figures amenable to the new orientation: ecumenism, religious liberty, and the cult of man. The article reveals the theology driving this devotion: Jarjour states, “I have a personal experience with St. Charbel, and I felt his presence during the previous walk. I believe he always protects us through Our Lord Jesus.” This is subjectivist pietism, sentimentalism substituting for theological faith. There is no mention of the Communion of Saints as defined by Trent (Sess. XXV), no invocation of the Saint as a model of penance and separation from the world, but a vague “protection” for a temporal journey. The true St. Charbel, a Maronite hermit of the 19th century, lived a life of radical mortification and Eucharistic adoration in a Church that still anathematized liberalism (Pius IX, Syllabus, Errors 77-80). The neo-church strips him of this doctrinal context to make him a mascot for humanitarian resilience.
Reduction of the Church’s Mission to Humanitarian Activism
The article’s central thesis is the equivalence of “volunteer work” and “pilgrimage.” Jarjour “served his hometown… through volunteer work with the Red Cross, Caritas, and Civil Defense… However, he wanted to add a spiritual dimension to that service.” This sentence encapsulates the heresy of Americanism and Modernism condemned by Leo XIII (Testem Benevolentiae) and St. Pius X (Pascendi Dominici Gregis). The primary mission of the Church is not temporal relief but the salvation of souls (salus animarum suprema lex). Pius XI teaches in Quas Primas (§14) that Christ’s Kingdom is “primarily spiritual and relates mainly to spiritual matters” and that men enter it “through faith and baptism… this kingdom is opposed only to the kingdom of Satan and the powers of darkness.” The article mentions none of this. No call for conversion. No mention of the state of grace. No reference to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass as the fons et culmen of Christian life. The “prayer walk” is a naturalistic substitute for the Processions of the Litany of the Saints or Rogation Days ordered by the true Church to appease God’s justice and beg for supernatural graces. Here, the “intentions” are for those “who continue to remain in southern Lebanon”—a patriotic, territorial imperative, not a supernatural one.
Collaboration with the Civil Power: The Syllabus Realized
The pilgrimage is organized “in cooperation with several organizations and local authorities, including the Monastery of St. Maron in Annaya and the municipalities of Byblos and Annaya. Lebanon’s Civil Defense and Red Cross will provide support.” This is the living realization of the errors condemned in the Syllabus (Errors 20, 41, 44, 55). The ecclesiastical power (here, the Maronite monastery, subservient to the antipope) exercises its authority with the “permission and assent of the civil government” (Error 20). The civil power (municipalities, Civil Defense) interferes in matters relating to religion (Error 44), providing “support and assistance along the route” for a putatively religious act. The Church is not “a true and perfect society, entirely free” (Error 19) but a department of state-sponsored social cohesion. The “Monastery of St. Maron” functions as a chaplaincy to the state, legitimizing the secular order that the Syllabus condemns for claiming the State is “the origin and source of all rights… not circumscribed by any limits” (Error 39). This is laicism in action, the very “plague” Pius XI instituted the Feast of Christ the King to combat (Quas Primas, §22).
Silence on the Mass, the Sacraments, and the Kingship of Christ
The gravest accusation against this enterprise is its total silence on the supernatural order. There is not a single word on:
- The Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass (the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary) as the sole acceptable worship of the Latria due to the Trinity.
- The Sacraments (Baptism, Confession, Extreme Unction) as the ordinary channels of grace for the besieged faithful.
- The Social Kingship of Christ over Lebanon, its laws, and its constitution (Quas Primas, §31: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed”).
- The necessity of the Catholic Faith for salvation (Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus), especially critical in a region dominated by Islam and secularism.
- The final judgment and the four last things, the only true context for “hope.”
Instead, the article offers “solidarity,” “hope,” “presence,” “determination to remain,” “safeguarding the country’s borders simply through their continued presence.” This is pure naturalism. It is the religion of the “Light-Life” movement (Fr. Blachnicki’s Masonic construct) applied to the Middle East: activism disguised as piety. The “prayer” is stripped of adoration, reparation, petition for grace, and thanksgiving—the four ends of the Mass—and reduced to a psychological support mechanism for a demographic struggle.
The Maronite Hierarchy: Servants of the Neo-Church
The involvement of the Monastery of St. Maron exposes the apostasy of the Maronite hierarchy. Once a bulwark of Catholic integrity in the Levant, in communion with the true Roman Pontiffs who condemned liberalism and Freemasonry (Leo XIII, Humanum Genus; Pius IX, Syllabus), the Maronite patriarchate now collaborates with the antipope (Leo XIV / Robert Prevost) and the conciliar sect. By hosting this naturalistic pilgrimage, they confirm their integration into the “Church of the New Advent”. They have abandoned the doctrinal fortress for ecumenical dialogue and civic relevance. The article notes the beatification of Patriarch Elias Hoyek (another post-conciliar “beatification” by the antipope) as a “historic, spiritual, and national event”—national event. The Faith is subordinated to the Nation. This is the heresy of Phyletism (condemned by the Holy Synod of Constantinople, 1872), baptized by the neo-church.
Symptomatic Analysis: The “Pilgrimage” as a Liturgical Act of the Antichurch
This event is not an anomaly; it is the standard liturgy of the neo-church. Lamentabili sane exitu (1907) condemned the Modernist proposition: “Christ did not proclaim any specific, all-encompassing doctrine suitable for all times and peoples, but rather initiated a certain religious movement, applied or applicable to different times and places” (Prop. 59). The “prayer walk” is exactly this: a religious movement adapted to the “times and places” of 2026 Lebanon—media-friendly, NGO-compatible, civil-defense-approved. It is the aggiornamento of piety. The true Church, as Pius X taught, “cannot, in any way, pass judgment on opinions concerning human abilities” (Lamentabili, Prop. 5) because her gaze is fixed on divine realities. The neo-church, having lost the sensus fidei, judges only by human abilities: miles walked, media coverage, inter-agency cooperation, “solidarity” generated. The Miracle of the Sun at Fatima (a Masonic psychological operation, as documented) finds its echo here: a mass spectacle substituting for the Miracle of the Altar. Jarjour’s previous walk (112 miles for traffic accident victims) and this one (93 miles for border Christians) reveal the pelagian core: man saves himself and his community by his own exertions, “turning every step into a prayer.” Non in commotione Dominus (1 Kings 19:11)—the Lord is not in the earthquake of activism, but in the whisper of silence before the Tabernacle.
Conclusion: A Call to the True Faithful of Lebanon
The Christians of Rmeich, Ain Ebel, and Debel do not need a media-staged walk organized by the conciliar sect’s press agency and blessed by the civil defense. They need valid priests offering the True Mass (the Mass of St. Pius V), administering the True Sacraments, preaching the integral Catechism of Trent and St. Pius X, and leading them in public reparation for the sins of the nation—sins crying to heaven: laicism, religious liberty, usury, abandonment of Christ the King. They need bishops who denounce the antipope in Rome and the Masonic infiltration of their own hierarchy, not bishops who pose for photos with the Red Cross. “Unless the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it” (Ps 126:1). This pilgrimage builds a house of cards on the sand of naturalism. The only solidarity that avails is membership in the Mystical Body of Christ through the Faith entire and the valid Sacraments. Viva Cristo Rey!
Source:
Lebanese faithful to walk to St. Charbel’s shrine in prayer for Christians in country’s south (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 20.09.2026