Thread by @CharltonCosima

Many thanks to @JuliaMeloni1 for providing the link. Here it is in Spanish.

Bishop Emeritus of Belem, José Luis Azcona Hermoso, gave a sermon at the Basilica of Our Lady of Nazareth, Belem, 16th Oct. in which he denounced the pagan rituals in Rome.

lanuovabq.it/it/azcona-obis…

@JuliaMeloni1 Here is the video of the sermon, in Portuguese.

@JuliaMeloni1 "Pachamama, Mother Earth, is not the Virgin Mary. The Virgin Mary is completely different... the Pope accepted an image of a pregnant woman saying she was the patroness of Amazonia... a lie.. our patroness is Mary of Nazareth..." Applause.

@JuliaMeloni1 "The Instrumentum Laboris of the Synod leaves out... marginalises... is ashamed of Christ Crucified."

@JuliaMeloni1 "I refer to what has happened... for which we need the discernment of the Holy Spirit... we must distinguish between what comes from the devil, from the human mind, from the Holy Spirit. This discernment is fundamental in belonging to the Church, even more so to evangelising."

@JuliaMeloni1 "In Brasilia last July, REPAM.. in preparation for the Synod carried out a series of indigenous rituals with smoke, incantations, prayers.. in which bishops participated.. later, a few days before the start of the Synod.. there was in the cathedral at Sao Paolo, something similar

@JuliaMeloni1 "...during which Oixu(?) was invoked.. that god... which prevents anything standing in the way of what you want to achieve.. was invoked for the Synod to go smoothly... and amongst many other things.. in the Vatican Gardens there was an expression of this sort of rite..

@JuliaMeloni1 "These are fundamental questions.. here in Amazonia we know about.. Macumba, Condomblé, so many things that are very widespread here.. so we must have discernment, we must ask whether these rituals.. which must have been varied, because there is not one common indigenous religion

@JuliaMeloni1 "these celebrations of rites from indigenous villages.. which are varied according to which types of spirit are being invoked, but these spirits can be the spirits of witchcraft, which we are warned about in Galatians 5:20 or spirits of divining Acts 16:16...

@JuliaMeloni1 "incompatible with the Gospel, with Mission, and on a par with idolatry. These spirits that are invoked in these rituals, in these prayers... belong in the realm of magic, as in Acts 19:23, the cult.. of Artemis, goddess of fertility.. Paul, through preaching, managed to convert

@JuliaMeloni1 " very many adherents of the cult of this goddess of fertility, like the Pachamama of the indigenous people, which, according to the news we have heard, in the Vatican Gardens.. was venerated. This goddess, which is similar to classical goddesses Ceres, Sybil, Astarte in Babylon

@JuliaMeloni1 "this same adoration of a woman, fertility of a woman, a pregnant woman, earth mother, by lay people and one person in a habit.. this can signify two things
1. a mythical power was invoked, Pachamama, mother earth, seeking a blessing for the whole of humanity over the whole world

@JuliaMeloni1 "or a gesture of gratitude for the power of mother earth over the whole of nature, the universe, and asking that she accompany the workings of the Synod.
There is no other explanation.

In summary...

@JuliaMeloni1 "these goddesses, not just of the indigenous peoples, but of almost all cultures, of fertility of the earth through the adoration of a goddess or heavenly spirits, all this is very old, and all this entered into those who were preparing for the Synod...

@JuliaMeloni1 "Evidently, as Jeremias said, these people have abandoned Jahweh and sought dry springs, they are sacrilegious, demoniacs, scandalous, and continue with the scandal, especially before the little ones who cannot discern...

@JuliaMeloni1 "and above all it is a scandal against the unity of the Church, against the One God, against Revelation, against the Holy Spirit and against Pentecost.

A Scandal.

Putting it in the context of Our Lady of Nazareth, to conclude..

@JuliaMeloni1 "that mother earth must not be adored nor be the centre of a cult, nor the spirits... because spirits that are not under the dominion of Jesus can have so much power... to complete idolatry or perdition.

Pachamama, mother earth, is not the Virgin Mary... etc (as quoted earlier)

@JuliaMeloni1 Applause.
"They cannot be combined. It is impossible. The Mother of God is the Queen of Heaven and of Earth... "

I have listened to the entire sermon.
TRUE CONFESSION. I have never studied Portuguese, so I couldn't catch it all, but it is sufficiently similar to Spanish...

@JuliaMeloni1 … and this bishop is a Spaniard, which made it easier for me.

If I have made any mistakes, please correct me. This is only a quick summary of the salient points.

Good night. Way past my bedtime.