VaticanNews portal reports on a message sent by the usurper Leo XIV to the so-called “Festival of the Resurrection” held in Madrid’s Plaza de Cibeles—an event featuring pop bands like Hakuna and the Gypsy Kings, attended by over 60,000 people, and blessed by Cardinal José Cobo Cano. The message, read aloud at this spectacle, reduces the sublime mystery of Christ’s Resurrection to a vague “music of joy,” urging Christians to make their lives a “concert of God’s love.” This is not pastoral guidance; it is the liturgical and theological bankruptcy of the conciarist sect laid bare.
The Resurrection Turned Into Entertainment
The event described is not a liturgical celebration but a cultural festival with musical performances, where the Risen Christ is invoked as a backdrop for communal merriment. Leo XIV states: “It is good and necessary that Easter should also find expression in music, in encounter, and in shared joy.” But what kind of “encounter” is this? Not the sacramental encounter with the Risen Lord in the Most Holy Eucharist, nor the interior conversion wrought by grace, but a horizontal gathering centered on emotional uplift and artistic performance. The Resurrection—the central dogma of our faith, the victory over sin and death, the source of all supernatural life—is reduced to an aesthetic experience.
Pope Pius XI, in Quas Primas, taught that Christ’s kingship demands public, social recognition—not private sentiment or cultural expression. He wrote: “His reign, namely, extends not to Catholic nations or to those who, by receiving baptism according to law, belong to the Church… but His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ.” Yet here, the “festival” makes no mention of Christ’s social kingship, no call to repentance, no reference to the necessity of the Church’s magisterial authority or the sacraments. Instead, we get vague invocations of “joy,” “hope,” and “beauty of faith”—hallmarks of modernist sentimentalism.
Silence on Dogma, Sacraments, and the Supernatural
Most damning is what Leo XIV’s message omits entirely. There is no mention of the Real Presence, no exhortation to frequent Confession or Holy Communion, no warning against mortal sin, no call to evangelize or convert, no reference to the Four Last Things. The word “sacrifice” appears nowhere. The Mass—the unbloody renewal of Calvary—is absent. Even the word “cross” is missing. This is not oversight; it is doctrinal surrender.
St. Pius X, in Lamentabili Sane Exitu, condemned the modernist proposition that “the Church is incapable of effectively defending evangelical ethics, because it steadfastly adheres to its views, which cannot be reconciled with modern progress” (Proposition 63). Here, the conciliar sect has fully embraced that progress—replacing asceticism with affliction-free joy, doctrine with dialogue, and worship with performance.
Leo XIV says: “May the flame of the Easter candle go forth from your churches. May it burn away all inner lukewarmness, all resignation, all spiritual mediocrity.” But lukewarmness is not overcome by concerts—it is fought by prayer, fasting, and fidelity to the Commandments. The “spiritual mediocrity” he decries is precisely what his own message exemplifies: a Christianity without teeth, without truth, without transcendence.
A Pontificate of Emptiness
The closing line—“God willing, we will see each other in June”—reveals the theatrical nature of this pontificate. It is not a shepherd calling souls to Christ, but a celebrity scheduling appearances. The entire message reads like a press release for a brand: upbeat, inclusive, devoid of doctrine, and designed to offend no one—except God.
Pope Pius IX, in the Syllabus of Errors, condemned the idea that “the Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Proposition 80). Leo XIV does not merely reconcile—he celebrates. He does not resist modernity; he baptizes its idols. The “Festival of the Resurrection” is not a triumph of faith but a capitulation to the spirit of the world.
The Abomination of Desolation in the Temple
This event is not an anomaly—it is the logical fruit of Vatican II’s religious liberty, ecumenism, and liturgical revolution. When the Mass is seen as a meal, worship becomes entertainment. When doctrine is relativized, joy replaces repentance. When the Church seeks relevance, she loses her soul.
The true Easter is not a concert—it is the Sacrifice of the Mass, the breaking of bread in doctrine, and the carrying of the cross in daily life. As St. Paul wrote: “For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified” (1 Cor 2:2). But in Madrid, they determined to know everything except Him.
Let those who still believe flee from this abomination. Let them seek the true Easter—in the silence of the tabernacle, the rigor of the confessional, and the unchanging truth of Tradition. For as Our Lord warned: “If they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not” (Matt 24:26). He is not in the plaza. He is in the Church—the true Church, which endures outside the structures of apostasy.
Source:
Pope: Easter joy is a music that overcomes resignation and spiritual mediocrity (vaticannews.va)
Date: 11.04.2026