“Barbecue and Prayer”: The Descent of Conciliar Evangelization into Naturalism
The “Catholic News Agency” portal (December 23, 2025) reports on Fr. Manuel Chouciño’s “evangelization” efforts at the Monastery of the Divine Savior of Lérez in Spain. The article celebrates an escape room in a former Benedictine monastery and “barbecue and prayer” events as tools to attract those who “would burst into flames if they stepped inside a church.” Chouciño claims Catholics are “in vogue” due to societal exhaustion with “woke ideology,” advocating “welcoming, not judgmental” communities that mirror the father of the prodigal son. This spectacle-driven approach epitomizes the conciliar sect’s abandonment of supernatural faith.
Sacrilegious Subversion of Sacred Space
The transformation of a consecrated monastery—violently seized during Spain’s 1835 ecclesiastical confiscations—into an entertainment venue mocks the religiosum cultum (religious veneration) demanded by Canon 1171 of the 1917 Code. Monasteries exist for ora et labora (pray and work), not theatrical performances. Pius XI’s Quas Primas explicitly condemned such secularization: “When God and Jesus Christ are removed from laws and states, the foundations of authority are destroyed.” Chouciño’s escape room—where participants “discover monks’ prayer times” through puzzles—reduces the Divine Office to a carnival game, violating the Church’s perennial teaching that “sacra sunt propter homines, non homines propter sacra” (sacraments are for men, not men for sacraments—Innocent III).
Naturalism Masquerading as Evangelization
Chouciño’s methodology exposes the conciliar sect’s inherent modernism. His claim that people need “something deeper” yet offers only barbecues and guided tours of his bedroom demonstrates the heresy of immanentism condemned in Pius X’s Lamentabili Sane (Proposition 25: “Faith is based on probabilities”). The Syllabus of Errors anathematizes such naturalism: “Moral laws do not need divine sanction” (Proposition 56). True evangelization, as defined by Pope Pius XI, requires proclaiming Christ’s social kingship: “Nations will not have peace until they recognize the reign of our Savior” (Quas Primas). Instead, Chouciño peddles a counterfeit gospel where the Mass is replaced by meat grills—a blasphemous inversion of “Ecce Agnus Dei” (Behold the Lamb of God).
Theological Apostasy in “Non-Judgmental” Rhetoric
The article’s praise for “welcoming, not judgmental” communities constitutes doctrinal betrayal. Christ commanded: “Go and sin no more” (John 8:11)—not “organize recreational activities for the comfortable.” Chouciño’s reference to the prodigal son deliberately omits the son’s repentance (poenitentiam agite—Matthew 3:2). This aligns with the conciliar sect’s rejection of extra Ecclesiam nulla salus (no salvation outside the Church—Council of Florence). As Pius IX taught: “It is false that the Church should adapt herself to our times” (Syllabus, Proposition 80). The escape room’s “medieval monastic life” theme ironically mocks the very era when Spain expelled heresy through the Reconquista—not games.
Silence on the Unbloody Sacrifice: The Ultimate Heresy
Nowhere does Chouciño mention the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass—the true source of evangelization. The article reduces priesthood to event planning, fulfilling Pius X’s warning: “Modernists replace the immutable Deposit of Faith with subjective religious experience” (Pascendi). The “barbecue and prayer” slogan sacrilegiously equates the Eucharistic Banquet with animal flesh, violating the Council of Trent’s decree on the Real Presence. This apostasy stems from the conciliar sect’s rejection of ex opere operato grace—instead promoting “pastoral creativity” condemned in Pius VI’s Auctorem Fidei.
Conclusion: Apostasy Wrapped in Entertainment
Chouciño’s “new evangelization” is the conciliar sect’s terminal symptom—a Church that flees the Cross for barbecue smoke. As Pius XI warned: “When the sweet name of Jesus is omitted from parliaments, it must be proclaimed louder” (Quas Primas). True Catholics reject this circus, clinging to the Missale Romanum and the Social Reign of Christ the King. Let Modernist entertainers answer at Judgment for scattering Christ’s flock—while faithful shepherds still call sinners to repentance, not escape rooms.
Source:
Priest expert in new evangelization on today’s Catholic moment (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 23.12.2025