Masonic Rituals Replace True Jubilee Grace in Vatican Ceremonies
The EWTN News portal (January 15, 2026) reports the sealing of St. Peter’s Holy Door on January 16, 2026, as the final act of the so-called “Jubilee of Hope.” The article describes masonry workers (“sanpietrini”) from the Fabric of St. Peter constructing a brick wall to permanently seal the door, inserting a bronze capsule containing a document, jubilee coins, and door keys. This follows identical rituals at St. Mary Major (January 13), St. John Lateran (January 14), and St. Paul Outside the Walls (January 15). The portal claims this concludes the jubilee year but insists its “spiritual life” continues, quoting the antipope’s January 6 ceremony closing the basilica’s doors. The report exemplifies the conciliar sect’s substitution of sacramental reality with naturalistic theater.
Sacred Rites Reduced to Architectural Ritualism
The article’s description of “sanpietrini” (lay artisans) sealing the Holy Door with bricks and a time capsule exposes the post-conciliar abandonment of ex opere operato grace. True jubilees, as defined by Pope Clement VI in Unigenitus Dei Filius (1343), grant plenary indulgences conditioned on sacramental confession, Eucharistic reception, prayer for the pontiff’s intentions, and renunciation of sin. Here, EWTN mentions none of these, instead fixating on “material and symbolic testimony“—coins and keys. This echoes the Masonic obsession with physical relics, condemned by Leo XIII in Humanum Genus (1884): “They set up a certain symbolical worship by means of signs and words devoid of clear meaning.”
Jubilee of Naturalism: Erasing the Supernatural
The term “Jubilee of Hope” itself is doctrinally void. Traditional jubilees—like those proclaimed by Boniface VIII in 1300 or Pius XI in 1925—emphasized penance, reparation for sin, and fear of divine judgment. Pius XI’s Quas Primas (1925) declared Christ’s kingship as the only basis for hope: “When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony.” In contrast, the conciliar sect’s jubilee promotes a horizontal “hope” detached from the necessity of conversion (John 3:5) and the social reign of Christ the King.
Antipapal Usurpation of Sacred Authority
The report’s reference to “the pope” (Leo XIV) closing St. Peter’s doors on January 6, 2025, constitutes blasphemous fiction. According to St. Robert Bellarmine (De Romano Pontifice), “a manifest heretic is ipso facto deposed from papal authority.” Modernist antipopes, beginning with John XXIII, publicly deny Catholic dogmas (e.g., Francis’s “who am I to judge?” relativism), rendering their acts spiritually null. True jubilees require a valid pontiff to open Holy Doors, as Pius XII did in 1950. The current ritual—overseen by lay workers—parallels Luther’s rejection of sacerdotalism, condemned at Trent (Session XXIII).
Omission of Doctrine: The Unspoken Apostasy
EWTN’s article notably avoids mentioning:
1. Confession: No requirement for sacramental absolution, contrary to Trent’s teaching that “the sacraments of the New Law are necessary for salvation” (Session VII).
2. Indulgences: Silence on the necessity of detachment from sin, reducing the jubilee to a “spiritual life” abstraction.
3. Christ’s Kingship: No reference to the Social Reign of Christ, replaced by ecumenical “hope” devoid of doctrinal content.
This mirrors Paul VI’s apostate claim that “the Church has no official philosophy” (Ecclesiam Suam, 1964), repudiating Thomism and enabling doctrinal dissolution.
Masonic Symbolism in the Holy Door Ritual
The insertion of a “bronze box” (capsis) containing coins and keys into the sealed wall reeks of occultic practice. St. Pius X’s Sacrorum Antistitum (1910) condemned Modernists who “employ symbolism to obscure divine truths.” The ritual’s focus on physical objects (keys, bricks, coins) over sacramental grace aligns with the Masonic tenet “nothing supersedes the reality of the material world” (Albert Pike, Morals and Dogma). Meanwhile, the true Holy Door rite—as performed by Pius XII—invoked the Blood of the Lamb (Apocalypse 5:9), not metallic trinkets.
Conclusion: Jubilee as Theater of Apostasy
The conciliar sect’s jubilee closure exemplifies the “abomination of desolation” (Daniel 9:27)—a counterfeit liturgy void of salvific power. As St. Vincent Ferrer warned: “When the Roman See becomes vacant or usurped, sacramental rites lose efficacy through want of authority” (De Moderno Ecclesiae Schismate). Traditional Catholics must reject these rituals and cleave to the perennial Mass and unadulterated doctrine, awaiting the restoration of Christ’s true Church.
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St. Peter’s Holy Door to be sealed Jan. 16 (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 15.01.2026