The Vacant See’s Empty Advent: A Nativity of Naturalism
Vatican News portal (December 17, 2025) reports on Leo XIV’s General Audience exhortations for Advent preparation. The article describes the antipope urging faithful to avoid “frenetic activity,” complete Nativity scenes, and embrace “reflection and prayer” before Christmas. Particular emphasis is placed on the Vatican’s unveiled Nativity displays and novena traditions. The text concludes with logistical notes about upcoming audiences, including a “Jubilee Audience” on December 20.
Sacramental Amnesia in the Desert of Modernism
The entire address constitutes a systematic evacuation of supernatural content from Advent’s penitential character. While quoting Leo XIV’s injunction to “make our hearts attentive and vigilant,” the message omits the sine qua non of true preparation: sacramenta propter homines (sacraments for men). Pius X’s Sacra Tridentina Synodus (1905) mandated frequent reception of the Eucharist as the “shortest and safest way to Heaven,” yet nowhere does this “Advent preparation” mention Confession’s necessity for receiving Communion worthily at Christmas. The silence echoes Vatican II’s destruction of the ex opere operato sacramental economy, reducing religion to subjective sentiment.
The Crèche as Pagan Spectacle
When the antipope extols Nativity scenes as “an important element…of Christian culture and art,” he reduces the Incarnation to aesthetic performance. Contrast this with Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas (1925): “Christus heri et hodie, ipse et in saecula (Christ yesterday and today, the same forever)…His empire extends not only to Catholic nations or to those who, by receiving baptism according to law, belong to the Church…but encompasses also all non-Christians.” The true crèche proclaims Christ’s social kingship, not bourgeois decoration. By separating the “Mystery of the Nativity” from its demand for societal submission to the Divine Infant’s authority, the Vatican display becomes idolatrous theater.
Novenas Without Blood
The mention of “Christmas Novena” traditions among Portuguese-speakers epitomizes the conciliar sect’s decaffeinated spirituality. Where are the Rorate Masses before dawn? The Ember Days’ fasting? The Martyrology‘s proclamation of Christ’s birth? Leo XIV’s novena resembles the condemned Modernist position that “the Church listening cooperates…with the Church teaching” (Lamentabili Sane, Proposition 6). True preparation requires exorcising the world through penance, not “lightening the heart” through emotive devotions. As the Syllabus of Errors condemns (Proposition 15): “Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which…he shall consider true” – precisely the indifferentism bred by these anthropocentric rituals.
Jubilee of Apostasy
Announcement of a December 20 “Jubilee Audience” confirms the structure’s apostate nature. The last valid jubilee was 1950 under Pius XII, who invoked Anno Sancto for “the restoration of all things in Christ.” Bergoglio’s 2015 “Mercy Jubilee” blasphemously replaced the Consecratio Mundi with universalist syncretism. By continuing this parody, Leo XIV fulfills Pius X’s warning in Pascendi: “Modernists substitute for the divine reality a reality purely human.” The absence of the December 24 General Audience – traditionally dedicated to the Expectatio Partus (Expectation of the Virgin’s Delivery) – completes the eradication of Catholic memory.
Theological Treason in Greetings
Greetings to language groups exemplify the Babel of neo-modernism:
- German group: “Welcoming Jesus without reservation” ignores Matthew 10:34 (“I came not to bring peace, but a sword”). True reception requires exorcising error, not Bergoglian “openness.”
- Arabic group: “Opening hearts to neighbor’s love” implies dialogue with Islam, condemned by Pius XI’s Mortalium Animos (1928): “This apostolic see has never allowed its subjects to take part in assemblies of non-Catholics.”
- Polish group: Reducing Confession to “reflection” negates Trent’s Session XIV: “Penance is truly a sacrament…instituted by Christ for reconciling the faithful.”
A Vacant Square for a Vacant See
The article’s concluding logistical notes betray the Vatican’s bureaucratic desolation. Mention of Paul VI’s 1975 New Year’s Eve audience – the pope who promulgated the invalid Novus Ordo – underscores the counterfeit lineage. When true shepherds like St. Pius V spent Christmas Eve hearing confessions, these usurpers stage manage crowds before a pagan tree. As the False Fatima Apparitions file confirms: “A tool to divert attention from modernism.” So too this Advent spectacle masks the abomination of desolation enthroned where Christ’s Vicar should reign.
Source:
Pope on Advent: Prepare for Christ's coming, don’t get lost in frenetic activity (vaticannews.va)
Date: 17.12.2025