Jubilee 2025 Closure: Empty Ritual of a Counterfeit Church
VaticanNews portal (January 5, 2026) reports that antipope Leo XIV will close the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica on January 6, 2026, formally ending a Jubilee Year that began on December 24, 2024. The ceremony, derived from a 1975 innovation and “simplified” by Wojtyła (“John Paul II”) in 2000, reduces the ritual to merely shutting the door leaves while postponing the walling-up to a private event days later. The portal’s reverent tone toward this sacrilege exemplifies the neo-church’s divorce from Catholic tradition.
Sacramental Symbolism Reduced to Naturalistic Theater
The article states the rite involves the antipope kneeling at the threshold and closing the bronze doors while reciting a prayer emphasizing that “the door of Your mercy is not closed.” This hollow formula replaces the lex orandi of the true Church, which understood the Holy Door as a physical sign of supernatural grace (Innocent III, De Sacro Altaris Mysterio). The pre-1958 rite required the Pope to strike the mortar-covered door three times with a silver hammer—symbolizing Christ’s conquest of death—before masons sealed it publicly.
The suppression of the walling-up ritual—now done secretly by technicians (“sampietrini”)—erases the eschatological warning inherent in the act: that the time for mercy is finite (Ecclesiastes 9:10). As Pius XII taught, “The Holy Year is not merely a commemoration… but a solemn renewal of the baptismal vows” (Annus Sacer, 1950), demanding public repentance, not sentimental abstractions about “divine grace remaining open.”
Illegitimate Authority Performing Invalid Rites
Leo XIV, a usurper occupying the Vatican since 2023, lacks all jurisdiction to preside over Catholic rites. The article’s reference to Wojtyła’s 2000 changes ignores that this “pope” was a manifest heretic who promoted false religions at Assisi (1986). Quo Primum (1570) anathematizes anyone altering rites without papal authority—yet Wojtyła’s innovations stem from a paramasonic agenda to dismantle tradition.
The article’s claim that the door-closing “underscores that the Jubilee time comes to an end” is contradicted by the prayer’s naturalistic focus on “earthly pilgrimage”—omitting the Dies Irae urgency of judgment central to true Jubilees. Pius XI condemned such relativism: “Peace is only possible in the Kingdom of Christ” (Quas Primas, 1925).
Silence on Repentance: The Ominous Subtext
Notably absent is any call for confession, fasting, or reparation—the pillars of authentic Jubilees (Leviticus 25:9-10). Instead, the ritual centers on an antipope’s theatrical gesture, reducing sacramental economy to a media spectacle. The placement of a “metal capsule” containing coins and keys within the wall reduces sacred memory to bureaucratic archive-keeping, akin to Freemasonic “time capsules.”
The portal’s claim that Mass follows the ceremony is equally fraudulent. The Novus Ordo service Leo XIV presides over is invalid—“a table of assembly” (Cardinal Ottaviani, Critical Study of the New Mass, 1969)—and thus incapable of offering the Most Holy Sacrifice.
Theological Bankruptcy of the Conciliar Sect
This ritual exemplifies the neo-church’s anti-sacramental essence. By abolishing the walling-up, modernists deny the Church’s duty to separate the faithful from the world (James 4:4). The 1917 Code of Canon Law mandated excommunication for altering Eucharistic fasts—yet conciliar “popes” gutted centuries of discipline under the guise of “simplification.”
St. Pius X’s condemnation resonates: “The Modernist sustains and embraces all heresies” (Pascendi Dominici Gregis, 1907). The VaticanNews article, by glorifying this charade, proves the conciliar sect is a schismatic entity hostile to the immutable Faith.
Source:
Jubilee: The rite for the closing of the Holy Door at St Peter’s Basilica (vaticannews.va)
Date: 05.01.2026