EWTN News portal reports that on June 12, 2026, Cardinal Luis Cabrera of Guayaquil will renew Ecuador’s national consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, a ceremony first performed in 1874. The event is framed as a response to a dramatic upsurge in homicides and drug-related violence, with the organizing committee spokesman, Pablo Moysam, emphasizing the need for “hope, reconciliation, and commitment to the common good” through “personal conversion and solidarity.” While the invocation of the Sacred Heart is a profound Catholic act, the context of this renewal—perpetrated by the conciliar sect, devoid of the integral Catholic understanding of consecration, and steeped in the naturalistic language of “solidarity” and “common good” without the necessary supernatural foundation—reveals it to be yet another empty ritual of a church that has long since abandoned its divine mandate to convert nations to Christ the King.
The Primacy of the Supernatural: What True Consecration Demands
The act of consecrating a nation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus is not a mere devotional exercise; it is a profound theological and societal act that demands the recognition of Christ’s absolute sovereignty over all peoples and states. Pope Pius XI, in his encyclical *Quas Primas* (1925), unequivocally established the foundation for such an act: “His reign, namely, extends not only to Catholic nations or to those who, by receiving baptism according to law, belong to the Church, even though their erroneous opinions have led them astray or discord has separated them from love, but His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ.” For Pius XI, the Kingdom of Christ is not an abstraction but a concrete reality demanding public acknowledgment and obedience from rulers and citizens alike. He further states: “Let rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ, but let them fulfill this duty themselves and with their people, if they wish to maintain their authority inviolate and contribute to the increase of their homeland’s happiness.”
True consecration, therefore, is inextricably linked to the Social Kingship of Christ. It implies a nation’s formal submission to God’s law, the Church’s magisterial authority, and the explicit recognition that there is no true peace or justice outside of Christ. It demands that the state actively promote the Catholic faith, suppress public impediments to salvation, and govern according to divine and ecclesiastical law. This is the antithesis of the modernist “separation of Church and State” condemned by Pope Pius IX in the *Syllabus of Errors* (Error 55: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church”). The very notion that a nation can be consecrated while its laws remain steeped in liberalism, religious indifferentism, and secularism is a contradiction in terms, a blasphemous mockery of divine authority.
The Conciliar Sect’s Betrayal: From Supernatural Reign to Naturalistic Solidarity
The language employed by the conciliar “clergy” and spokesmen in this article is a damning indictment of their apostasy. Pablo Moysam, the event’s spokesman, speaks of “hope, reconciliation, and commitment to the common good” through “personal conversion and solidarity among all.” This is the language of naturalistic humanism, not of Catholic doctrine. Where is the explicit call for the conversion of Ecuador to the Catholic Faith as the only true religion? Where is the condemnation of religious indifferentism, the recognition that “outside the Church there is no salvation” (*extra ecclesiam nulla salus*)? Where is the demand for the state to submit its laws to the divine law and the Church’s teaching? The silence on these fundamental points is deafening and reveals the hollowness of this “consecration.”
Pope Pius IX, in *Quanto conficiamur* (1863), condemned the idea that “good hope at least is to be entertained of the eternal salvation of all those who are not at all in the true Church of Christ” (Error 17 of the *Syllabus*). The conciliar sect, by its very embrace of ecumenism and religious liberty (as promulgated by the apostate Vatican II’s *Dignitatis Humanae*), has implicitly adopted this condemned error. Their “consecration” is thus a sham, a ritual performed by those who deny the very principles that give it meaning. They invoke the Sacred Heart while denying the necessity of the Faith for salvation, the Church’s exclusive right to teach and govern, and the duty of states to publicly profess Catholicism. This is not a call to Christ the King; it is a plea for divine assistance for a world order built on the rejection of Christ’s authority.
The Crisis of Faith: Violence as a Fruit of Apostasy
The article cites the “upsurge in homicides” and “drug-trafficking gangs” as the impetus for this renewal. While the suffering of the Ecuadorian people is undeniable, the conciliar “shepherds” fail to identify the root cause: the public apostasy of nations from Christ the King. Pope Pius XI, in *Quas Primas*, warned: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states and when authority was derived not from God but from men, the foundations of that authority were destroyed… For this reason, the entire human society had to be shaken, because it lacked a stable and strong foundation.” The violence in Ecuador is not merely a social ill to be addressed by “solidarity”; it is a direct consequence of a society that has rejected God’s law and embraced the secularism and moral relativism that flow from the principles of 1789 and the modernist revolution.
St. Pius X, in *Lamentabili Sane Exitu* (1907), condemned the modernist error that “the progress of sciences requires a reform of the concept of Christian doctrine concerning God, creation, Revelation, the Person of the Incarnate Word, and Redemption” (Error 64). The conciliar sect, by adapting its doctrine to the “spirit of the age,” has effectively undermined the very foundations of faith and morality, leading to the societal decay witnessed today. Their “solutions” of “dialogue,” “solidarity,” and “common good” are the anemic remedies of a church that has lost its divine mandate and its understanding of true peace, which can only be found in the Kingdom of Christ.
The Invalidity of Consecrations by Apostates
The “Cardinal” Luis Cabrera, as a prominent member of the conciliar sect, operates within a structure that has systematically denied the integral Catholic Faith. The question of his authority, and indeed the authority of any “pope” or “bishop” who adheres to the modernist errors of Vatican II, is paramount. As St. Robert Bellarmine taught, a manifest heretic loses his office *ipso facto* (by that very fact). The conciliar “popes” from John XXIII onward, by promulgating and adhering to doctrines condemned by the perennial Magisterium (e.g., religious liberty, ecumenism, the evolution of dogmas), have rendered themselves manifest heretics. Consequently, any act performed by them or their appointed “bishops” that pertains to the governance or sanctification of the faithful is of dubious validity, if not entirely null and void.
The 1917 Code of Canon Law (Canon 188.4) explicitly states that an ecclesiastical office becomes vacant “by the mere fact and without any declaration” if the officeholder “publicly defects from the Catholic faith.” The conciliar “clergy” have publicly defected from the Catholic faith by their adherence to the modernist errors. Therefore, their claim to legitimate authority is fundamentally compromised. A consecration performed by one who lacks true jurisdiction, and who acts in defiance of the Church’s perennial teaching, is not a true act of the Catholic Church. It is a ritual performed by the abomination of desolation (Matt. 24:15), a paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican, which has long since ceased to be the true Church of Christ.
The Omission of True Repentance and the Call to Penance
The article speaks of “personal conversion” but fails to define what this entails in Catholic terms. True conversion requires a sincere sorrow for sin (contrition), a firm purpose of amendment, confession of sins to a validly ordained priest, and the performance of penance. It demands a rejection of all error and a return to the fullness of the Catholic Faith. It is not merely a vague feeling of “hope” or a commitment to “solidarity.” The conciliar sect, by downplaying the gravity of sin, the necessity of sacramental confession, and the reality of hell, has effectively emptied the concept of conversion of its saving content.
Moreover, the article makes no mention of the need for national repentance for public sins, such as the legalization of divorce, the promotion of contraception, or the embrace of secularism. A true national consecration would demand a public acknowledgment of these sins, a formal repudiation of the principles of liberalism and religious indifferentism, and a concrete plan to restore Catholic principles to public life. Without this, the “consecration” is a hollow gesture, a superstitious appeal for divine intervention without the requisite human cooperation with grace.
The Cult of Man and the Denial of God’s Justice
The conciliar sect’s emphasis on “human dignity,” “dialogue,” and “the common good” without reference to God’s law and the Church’s authority is a manifestation of the “cult of man” condemned by the perennial Magisterium. Pope Pius IX, in the *Syllabus*, condemned the error that “the Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Error 80). The conciliar “clergy” have done precisely this, sacrificing the integrity of the Faith on the altar of modernity. Their “consecration” is thus not an act of worship but an act of apostasy, a desperate attempt to invoke God’s blessing for a world order built on the rejection of His Son.
The true path to peace and justice for Ecuador, or any nation, lies not in the empty rituals of a modernist sect but in a sincere and public return to the Social Kingship of Christ. This demands the recognition of the Catholic Church as the only true Church of Christ, the submission of all laws to divine and ecclesiastical law, and the active promotion of the Faith in all aspects of public life. Until this happens, no “consecration” will avail, for God will not bless a nation that publicly repudiates His authority and embraces the errors of the world.
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Ecuador to renew its consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 10.06.2026