Catholic News Agency portal reports on the supposed “octave of Christmas” in the post-conciliar sect’s calendar, mentioning feasts of St. Stephen (Dec 26), Holy Innocents (Dec 28), St. John the Apostle (Dec 27), Holy Family (Dec 28), and Mary Mother of God (Jan 1). The article recommends attending “daily Mass” during this period as spiritual practice. This presentation constitutes liturgical theater devoid of supernatural substance, masking the neo-church’s abandonment of true Catholic worship.
Naturalistic Reduction of Sacred Feasts
The article reduces the martyrdoms of St. Stephen and Holy Innocents to historical footnotes, omitting their doctrinal significance (doctrinal significance) as witnesses against modern ecumenism. St. Stephen’s condemnation of Jewish authorities (“You stiff-necked people… you always resist the Holy Spirit” Acts 7:51) directly contradicts the conciliar sect’s Judeo-Christian dialogue initiatives. The Holy Innocents’ martyrdom—which ancient liturgies honored with violet vestments (violet vestments) acknowledging Herod’s murderous decree—is distorted through the modernist lens into a generic “human rights” narrative rather than proto-martyrdom for Christ the King.
The feast of the “Holy Family”—instituted only in 1893 by the modernist-compromised Leo XIII—receives disproportionate emphasis, reflecting the neo-church’s anthropological shift. Pius XI warned in Quas Primas (1925) that “the peace of Christ can only be found in the Kingdom of Christ,” yet the article substitutes divine sovereignty with bourgeois family sentimentality. Nowhere does it mention Christ’s Circumcision (January 1), the traditional octave-day feast replaced in 1969 with the anthropocentric “Mary Mother of God” title—a change revealing the conciliar sect’s Nestorian tendencies despite verbal orthodoxy.
Invalid Liturgical Celebrations
The recommendation to “attend daily Mass” constitutes spiritual malpractice given Paul VI’s invalid Novus Ordo Missae (New Order of Mass). The Ottaviani Intervention (1969) demonstrated how the new rite “represents, both as a whole and in its details, a striking departure from the Catholic theology of the Mass.” When the article states clergy “wear white during the Mass,” it perpetuates the blasphemous fiction that conciliar ceremonies constitute true liturgy. St. Thomas Aquinas teaches that sacramental validity requires both matter and form (matter and form) according to Church tradition (Summa Theologiae III, q.60, a.7)—conditions violated by post-conciliar “ordinations” and “consecrations.”
The red vestments worn on martyr feasts are empty theater when the celebrants themselves apostatize from the Faith. As Pius XII declared in Mediator Dei (1947): “It is a deadly error… to call the liturgy a laboratory for experiments.” The true octave requires the traditional Latin Mass—whose suppression parallels the conciliar sect’s broader abandonment of lex orandi, lex credendi (the law of prayer is the law of belief).
Omissions Revealing Modernist Agenda
Silence about the following exposes the article’s theological bankruptcy:
1. No mention of the O Antiphons preceding Christmas, replaced in neo-liturgical books with “ecumenical” prayers
2. Absence of Christ the King in discussing the Holy Family, contrary to Pius XI’s teaching that “all things must be restored in Christ” (Ephesians 1:10)
3. Failure to warn that receiving “Communion” in invalid liturgies constitutes sacrilege (Council of Trent, Session XIII, Chapter 6)
The reduction of the octave to “time to rest from a busy year” exemplifies the conciliar heresy of anthropocentric religion condemned in St. Pius X’s Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907). True Catholics keep the octave through adoration of the Divine Infant, recitation of the Te Deum on December 31, and rejection of all neo-ecclesial structures occupying the Vatican since 1958. As the Apostle warns: “Do not be yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership have justice and iniquity?” (2 Corinthians 6:14).
Source:
The 8 days of Christmas? A look at the Christmas octave (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 25.12.2025