Bishop Vigano : " Does it not seem to us that the Hierarchy of the Church ...is prostituting itself to the new cult..."
30 Novembre 2025
2025, Omelie
Qui legit intelligat
Qui legit intelligat
Homily on the first Sunday of Advent
Terra vestra deserta; civitates vestræ succensæ igni:
regionem vestram coram vobis alieni devorant,
et desolabitur sicut in vastitate hostili.
Your land is desolate, your cities are consumed by fire,
your fields are devoured by strangers before your eyes;
everything is devastated, as if by an overthrow by barbarians.
Is 1, 7
In his recent address at the General Assembly of the Italian Bishops’ Conference in Assisi [1], Cardinal Matteo Zuppi said that “Christianity is over,” and that this fact must be viewed positively, as an chance, a καιρός. You will not fail to notice his use of globalist language, according to which every crisis induced by the System is also an opportunity: the so-called Covid pandemia, the war in Ukraine, the ecological transition, the Islamization of Western nations. Zuppi—one of the leading exponents of the synodal Church—is careful, however, to acknowledge that the destruction of the Catholic edifice and the erasure of the Catholic presence in society are the logical and necessary effect of the subversive action of the Second Vatican Council and its remote and recent developments, stubbornly imposed by the Hierarchy itself. Moreover, when Christ the King and High Priest has been deposed and replaced by the supposed will of the grassroots—first collegiality, now synodality—the only thing that could be expected to happen in the Catholic Church is the same thing that happened in public affairs two hundred years earlier.
The austere liturgy of Advent begins in the heart of the night, when the three Lessons with the oracle of Isaiah resound during the First Nocturn of Matins. Eight centuries before the coming of the Savior, the Lord rebukes through the mouth of the Prophet the infidelity of His people: “Woe to the sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a generation of wicked people, children who have perverted themselves!” (Is 1:4) Those stern words, spoken to our fathers in view of the first coming of Christ, are even more valid for we who are witnesses of that Incarnation which we prepare to celebrate at the end of the sacred season of Advent; but they apply equally to we who await the second coming of Christ the Judge, this time in glory. This is the theme of today’s Gospel: “There will be signs in the sun, the moon, and the stars, and on earth distress among nations…” (Lk 21:25). And just as the liturgical year ended last Sunday with a reminder of the end times, so this new year begins with the First Sunday of Advent: “When these things begin to happen, know that the kingdom of God is near.”
We thus find ourselves situated between two epochal events: the first coming of Christ in the humility of the human condition and in the obscuring of His divinity to accomplish the work of Redemption; and the second coming of Christ as Rex tremendæ majestatis, who will come to judge the world per ignem – through the fire of His Justice.
It is between these two historical events that the Church Militant carries out Her sanctifying mission: the first, already accomplished; the second, yet to be accomplished and deciphered, as in the parable of the fig tree, ab arbore fici discite parabolam (Mt 24:32) Prior to the Incarnation, the Old Law was in force; after the resurrection of the dead and the Last Judgment, there will be new heavens and a new earth (Rev 21:1), and only the Church Triumphant will remain: triumphant over Satan, who will have been definitively defeated, and over the Antichrist, who will be killed by the Archangel St. Michael. The history of Salvation is fulfilled between these two historical dates, separated by two thousand years of battles with alternating outcomes between God and Satan. Two thousand years dripping with the innocent blood of the Martyrs, shed by the same murderous hands that under the Old Law killed and stoned the Prophets that the Lord sent to His people (Lk 13:34).
The testimony of faithfulness to God requires passage through the certamen, the combat of the Cross. This truth—theological because it is essential to the Trinitarian plan of Redemption—is made explicit in the perfect Sacrifice of the Head of the Mystical Body; and it is perpetuated mystically—and sometimes actually through Martyrdom—in the oblation of the members of that Body. The first to immolate herself, in a way possible only to the Immaculate Mother of God, was the Most Holy Virgin, Regina Crucis, whom for this reason we honor as our Co-redemptrix and who is—by virtue of that oblation—our Mediatrix of all Graces before the Divine Majesty. The passage from the Old to the New and Eternal Covenant is bathed in the blood of so many lives, both before and after the supreme Cleansing of Golgotha by the Incarnate Word. A blood that has been shed by the hands of corrupt children, present then as now beneath the vaults of the Temple of God.
When we read in the Book of the Prophet Ezekiel of the vision of the abominations of Israel [2] – with the secret chambers of the Temple of Jerusalem used by the seventy elders of the House of Israel to celebrate infernal cults, and the most sacred place between the vestibule and the altar dedicated to sun worship [3]—we spontaneously sense a parallel with the abominations we have witnessed in recent decades: from the adoration of the Buddha on the tabernacle of the Church of Santa Chiara in Assisi, at the time of John Paul II’s pantheon, to the enthronement of the filthy idol of the Pachamama in the Vatican Basilica. It is difficult not to recognize in this blend of Canaanite and Babylonian cults, practiced by a portion of the people of Israel, a reference to the cult of Mother Earth, to green “conversion,” and to the sustainable goals of Agenda 2030.
But if these abominations led the Jews of the Old Law into exile, what punishment awaits those who commit them under the New Law? If the Lord was offended by the contamination of the Temple liturgy by pagan rites wanted by the Jewish priestly hierarchy [4], how could He not be even more offended by similar and worse contaminations introduced into the liturgy by the Hierarchy of the conciliar and synodal church? “Quomodo facta est meretrix civitas fidelis?” (Is 1:21) – How did the faithful city become a harlot? – asks the Prophet Isaiah. “Your country is desolate, your cities are consumed by fire, your fields are devoured by strangers before your eyes; everything is devastated, as if by a barbarian overthrow” (Is 1:7). Is this not what we see in our nations, which have become rebels against the Commandments of God and His Holy Law? Does it not seem to us that the Hierarchy of the Church – the civitas fidelis – is prostituting itself to the new cult of the sun, rather than recognizing in Christ the Sol Justitiæ who illuminates all with Divine Truth? Why this vile subservience to the demands of the enemies of God, of the Church, and of humanity?
When in the silence of the Holy Night the Eternal Word of the Father first saw the light of this earth in the flesh of Emmanuel, the ancient messianic prophecies appeared in their clarity, showing in the Man-God the fulfillment of the Scriptures. It was a revelation. It was the Revelation. But another revelation—in the proper sense of the Greek term ἀποκάλυψις, which means to lift the veil—will occur at the end of time, when it is not reality that changes, but our way of looking at it, free from those impediments that have been veiling our gaze. Then too we will see Scripture fulfilled: our betrayal by both civil and religious authority, the apostasy of the ecclesiastical Hierarchy, the dissolution of the social body in wars, famines, plagues, and cataclysms. And just as there were those who, despite the evidence, denied that Christ was the Desideratus cunctis gentibus – the Desired of all peoples – so too, there are and will be those who, faced with the events foretold by the Prophet Daniel and Saint John the Apostle, will speak—like Cardinal Zuppi—of καιρός, persisting in believing, and making us believe, that the crisis is a good thing, and that therefore there is no need for any restoration of the Divine Order by the sole holder of Authority, Christ the King and High Priest. Denying evil, in fact, besides constituting a form of cooperation with it, also entails denying the necessity of the triumph of Good, and ends up being a form of complicity with evil itself, a sort of induced resignation, a dangerous defeatism, a fatalism that prevents individuals and society from awakening, reacting, and countering the enemy’s actions. And this applies to the Church as well as civil society, because the Lordship of Christ is denied and opposed in both spheres, and precisely by the leaders of those institutions that draw their legitimacy from being vicars of the supreme Authority of the Incarnate Word, Our Lord Jesus Christ.
The season of Advent is a spiritual training ground in preparation for the Most Holy Birth of Him who, born secundum carnem in view of Our Redemption, has recapitulated all things in Himself, healing in the order of Grace the vulnus inflicted by the χάος of Satan. This spiritual training ground must also be a training ground for us to fight our own good daily battle—against the world, the flesh, and the devil—and also to fight the epochal battle of the end times, when the Antichrist will usurp all earthly authority in order to establish his infernal kingdom.
If we can understand the inevitability of the triumph of Our Lord Jesus Christ, prepared by the Incarnation and achieved on Golgotha in obedience to the Father, we will be able to read present and future events sub specie æternitatis, preserving peace of heart in the midst of the most arduous tribulations and trials. This is why, in spiritually celebrating the Birth of the Savior with a true interior conversion and allowing the life of Grace to grow within us, we also prepare to follow our King and Lord along the Way of the Cross, the throne from which He reigns over us all with the purple of His Most Precious Blood. This militia is the true καιρός, the only opportunity that will allow us to take part in the final victory if we are able to align ourselves under the banner of Christ Our King and Mary Our Queen. Hora est jam nos de somno surgere (Rom 13:11), as the Apostle exhorts us in the Epistle. Let us not forget that Divine Providence has established that it will be She, the Co-Redemptrix, the Regina Crucis, who will crush the head of the ancient Serpent.
With these dispositions of mind, let us listen to the oracle of Ezekiel:
“Thus says the Lord God: I will gather you from the nations and assemble you from the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel. They will come in and remove all its idols and all its abominations. I will give them a new heart and put a new spirit within them; I will remove the heart of stone from their bodies and give them a heart of flesh, that they may walk in my statutes and keep my laws and practice them. They will be my people, and I will be their God. But those whose hearts follow their idols and their abominations, I will bring their deeds upon them, says the Lord God” (Ez 11:17-21).
And so may it be.
+ Carlo Maria Viganò, Archbishop
November 30, MMXXV
Dominica I Adventus
NOTE
1 – Cf. Card. Zuppi: il dono di una strada per costruire …
2 – This vision was interpreted by the Church Fathers both literally (as a condemnation of Israel’s historical idolatry) and allegorically (as a condemnation of heresy and apostasy in the Church or in the soul). Saint Jerome identified the abominations with the pagan practices that had infiltrated the Temple.
3 – He said to me, “Son of man, break down the wall.” I broke down the wall, and behold, a door appeared. He said to me, “Go in and see the wicked abominations that these people are committing.” So I went in and saw every kind of reptile and abominable animal and all the idols of the people of Israel depicted on the walls all around. Seventy elders of the house of Israel, including Jazaniah son of Shaphan, were standing before them, each with his censer in his hand, and the incense was rising in clouds. He said to me, “Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the people of Israel are doing in the darkness, each in the secret room of his idol? They say, ‘The Lord does not see us… the Lord has forsaken the land…’” […] He brought me into the inner court of the temple; and behold, at the entrance of the temple, between the vestibule and the altar, were about twenty-five men, with their backs toward the temple and their faces toward the east, falling down and worshiping the sun. (Ez 8:8-12, 16). Seventy elders who worship idols: that is, the seventy members who make up the Sanhedrin. Twenty-five men who prostrate themselves before the sun: the heads of the twenty-four Levitical orders (1 Chron 24:18, 19), along with the High Priest, “the princes of the sanctuary” (Is 43:28), representing the entire priesthood, just as the seventy elders represented the people.
4 – The chief priest played a leading role in “defiling the house of the Lord” (2 Chron 36:14) with Persian solar cults.
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