EWTN News portal (via its Spanish-language arm ACI Prensa, translated by Diego López Marina) reports that over 4.2 million pilgrims flocked to the Basilica Shrine of the Divine Eternal Father in Trindade, Goiás, Brazil, from June 26 to July 5, 2026. The report details a ten-day “festival” culminating in a candlelight procession with an image of the “Divine Eternal Father” on a flower-decked cart, presided over by the conciliar “Archbishop” of Goiânia, João Justino. A pilgrim testifies to a miraculous healing; the “Archbishop” preaches a homily declaring, “We are not beloved children because we have been good; we are called to be good because we are beloved children.” The devotion originates from a private revelation—a medallion found by a peasant couple in the 1840s depicting the Holy Trinity crowning the Virgin Mary. This massive mobilization is not a triumph of the Faith, but a spectacular manifestation of the Masonic Paternité de Dieu deployed by the conciliar sect to anaesthetize the faithful with naturalistic sentimentalism, diverting them from the Social Reign of Christ the King and the necessity of the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church for salvation.
The Fact of a Masonic Spectacle: Private Revelation, Invalid Hierarchy, and Simulated Sacrifice
The reported figure of 4.2 million souls mobilized over ten days is not a sign of Catholic vitality but the measure of the conciliar sect’s capacity for panem et circenses. The very origin of this devotion—a medallion “found” in the 1840s depicting the Trinity crowning Our Lady—constitutes a private revelation devoid of the Church’s infallible guarantee. As the theological objections document on False Fatima Apparitions establishes: “Private revelations (even approved ones) do not have the guarantee of the Church’s infallibility… The centralized role of the Church and the sacraments is undermined by the demand for ‘hyper-acts’ of worship.” Here, the “hyper-act” is a massive, festival-like pilgrimage centered on an image of God the Father—a representation historically condemned by the Holy Synod of Constantinople (754) and the Quinisext Council (Canon 82) as iconographically heretical, for “No one has ever seen God; the only-begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him” (Jn 1:18). To parade an image of the First Person is to fabricate an idol of the invisible Godhead, divorcing the Father from the Verbum Incarnatum.
The presiding figure, “Archbishop” João Justino of the conciliar archdiocese of Goiânia, possesses no jurisdiction and no valid orders. The Defense of Sedevacantism dossier demonstrates conclusively that the new rite of episcopal consecration promulgated by “Paul VI” in 1968 (Pontificale Romanum) is deficient in form and intention for the sacrament of Order, rendering the conciliar hierarchy ipso facto devoid of the episcopate and the priesthood. Consequently, the closing “Mass” was not the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary but a Protestantized cena, a “table of assembly” invalid in form (pro multis vs pro omnibus in the vernacular intent), matter, and minister. The “Communion” distributed therein is not the Corpus Domini but bread, rendering the distribution idolatry and the reception sacrilege.
The Linguistics of Antinomianism: “Abba Father” as Masonic Password
The linguistic framing of the event exposes the naturalistic rot. The theme “We Cry Out: Abba, Father!” and the pilgrim’s testimony—“We are all loved equally by this Father, simply because he created us, and not because of what we do”—drip with the heresy of Naturalism condemned by Pope Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors (Prop. 3, 15, 16, 77, 79). This is the pure Masonic dogma: Paternité de Dieu, Fraternité des hommes (Fatherhood of God, Brotherhood of Man). It posits a generic, natural filiation by creation alone, obliterating the necessitas medii—the absolute necessity of Sanctifying Grace and Baptism of Water for divine adoptive sonship (filii in Filio).
The “Archbishop’s” homily—“We are not beloved children because we have been good; we are called to be good because we are beloved children”—is a masterpiece of antinomian Protestantism masquerading as mercy. It inverts the Ordo Salutis defined by the Council of Trent, Session VI: “If any one saith, that man may be justified before God by his own works… without the grace of God through Jesus Christ; let him be anathema” (Can. 1). It denies that justification (being made “beloved children” by grace) is the cause of the ability to do good works meritorious of eternal life. It preaches a gratia gratis data severed from gratia gratum faciens, a “cheap grace” that demands no conversion, no penance, no Carrying of the Cross (Mt 16:24), perfectly suited for the “festival” atmosphere of the conciliar sect.
Theological Bankruptcy: The Dethronement of Christ the King
This devotion strikes at the very heart of the Kingship of Christ, solemnly defined by Pope Pius XI in the Encyclical Quas Primas (1925). The Holy Father teaches: “It has long been customary to call Christ King… because of the supreme degree of His dignity… But, if we delve deeper into the matter itself, we shall realize that the name and authority of king in the proper sense belong to Christ the Man… He received power and honor and a kingdom from the Father” (Dan 7:13-14). Pius XI condemns the “plague of secularism, so-called laicism” which “began with the denial of Christ the Lord’s reign over all nations.”
“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… the entire human society had to be shaken, because it lacked a stable and strong foundation.” (Quas Primas, citing Ubi Arcano)
The “Divine Eternal Father” devotion, by bypassing the Humanity of Christ the King—the sole Mediator (Unus Mediator, 1 Tim 2:5), the sole Lawgiver, Judge, and King (Quas Primas: “Christ Jesus is given to men as Redeemer… but at the same time He is the Lawgiver, to whom men owe obedience”)—constructs a direct, naturalistic, unmediated access to the First Person. This is the Gnostic temptation: to know the Father without the Son. It renders the Incarnation, the Cross, the Church, the Sacraments, and the Papacy superfluous accessories to a vague “fatherhood.” It is the theological realization of the Masonic project described in the False Fatima dossier: “The imprecise formulation ‘conversion of Russia’ (without specifying Catholicism) opens the way to religious relativism… The name ‘Fatima’: a symbol of Christian-Islamic syncretism.” Here, “Divine Eternal Father” functions as the lowest common denominator for a universal, naturalistic religion.
The Symptom: The Conciliar Sect as the “Abomination of Desolation”
This pilgrimage is the rotten fruit of the Second Vatican Council and its heretical documents Dignitatis Humanae and Nostra Aetate. The Syllabus of Errors (Prop. 55, 77, 79, 80) anathematizes the very principles on display: the separation of Church and State, the liberty of cults, the reconciliation of the “Roman Pontiff” with “progress, liberalism, and modern civilization.” The conciliar sect, occupying the Vatican since 1958, has erected a counter-church—a paramasonic structure—where the Social Reign of Christ the King is replaced by the “Reign of Man” (Gaudium et Spes), where the Unbloody Sacrifice is replaced by a communal meal, and where the Mediator Dei is replaced by a generic “Father.”
The participation of 4.2 million souls is the measure of the diabolical disorientation foretold by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907): Modernism’s synthesis of all heresies, drawing the faithful into a “natural religion” of sentiment and immanence. The “miracle” of the healed ankle is the signa mendacium (2 Thess 2:9) accompanying the mysterium iniquitatis—a preternatural sign or psychosomatic event validating a false worship. The EWTN/ACI Prensa apparatus, the propaganda ministry of the conciliar sect, broadcasts this idolatry globally as “Catholic news,” fulfilling the role of the False Prophet (Apoc 13:11-15) making “fire come down from heaven” (media spectacle) to make men worship the image of the Beast (the conciliar hierarchy).
Conclusion: Non est alia via
There is no salvation in the “Fatherhood of God” abstracted from the Kingship of Christ. “There is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). The pilgrims of Trindade, deceived by invalid pastors and a novel, sentimental devotion, are wandering in the “land of the shadow of death” (Ps 22:4), fed on the husks of naturalism. The only remedy is the integral Catholic Faith preserved in the catacombs of Tradition: the Traditional Latin Mass (the Missale Romanum of St. Pius V), the Sedevacantist recognition of the vacant See since 1958, and the submission to Christ the King who reigns “from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth” (Ps 71:8). “You are Christ the King of glory!” sang the faithful at the Council of Nicaea commemoration (Quas Primas). Let that cry drown out the candles of Trindade.
Source:
Pilgrimage to Brazil’s Basilica Shrine of the Divine Eternal Father draws 4 million (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 13.07.2026