This year's World Youth Day made me angry in so many different ways. I watched some of the livestreams of the show because I am a loser, and unsurprisingly, I found new reasons to hate the novus ordo.
I write this article for fence sitters who want to believe they can recognize and resist and that they are still members of the Catholic Church. I want to destroy the novus ordo and at the end of this post you may wish to do it as well.
The Main Feeling of the WYD Lisbon 2023
WYD is like a huge concert with bad rock musick bombing on the background. And this concerts are like a horde of demented seals wailing and screeching with insanity. Not exactly the kind of environment that leads to prayer. Few were dressed modestly and the novus ordo nuns behaved like Star Wars fans after receiving an autograph from Darth Vader himself.
The behavior of the tenagers on this massive show however, is the least of our concerns, because the things that were officially endorsed by the leaders of your church cry to Heaven for vengeance.
The Band Hakuna
One of the most indignating parts of the WYD was the Band Hakuna. Hakuna is an Opus Dei band and spiritual movement dedicated to young people. Can't have enough of teen spirit spirituality!
Most novus ordo pop bands have sappy songs about how "Jesus loves me", but Hakuna decided to overstep their claims by claiming that "Jesus is a madman, falling in love with us."
Believe I am exaggerating? Let's look at some of the lyrics, translated from the original spanish by me:
Careful!! Sexy lyrics
If for one second you saw how I saw you
When you sleep you close your eyes, I remain
I am drooling, impossible not to see
I don't want to stop doing it, don't even try to imagine
If for one second you could see how I hear you
every noise, every word and when you don't say much,
talking or being quiet, I only care if you are here
In my love silence fits, talking fits and much more
I explode for love, I shiver of joy
On how with your gaze you are here and not alone
Every tear, every laugh in my memory has been engraved
every detail of your body and soul was planned
I don't think I can contain myself anymore here behind
I want to enter and make you mine, heal your wound if you give it to me
If for one second you could see how much I love you
I only know to give myself even if it's in vain
And I shiver to imagine when you arrive to Heaven
We will hug each other without breathing (the actual text is more suggestive)
If you could see for a second what will come
What is hidden and awaits, coincidences without chance
I dream so many times in every gift that I can make
You receive your gift, to Heaven your gaze gives thanks
I explode of love, I shiver of joy
There's so much madness in this love I don't control
Lose your life you will receive eternity
The happiness of slavery, the slavery of my freedom
If for one second you saw how I see you, you wouldn't want to see anything else.
I never thought it would be possible to portray God as a retarded stalker, and yet this teenagers managed to do it and sing it shamelessly in front of millions, with the consent of the o-so-valid "catholic" bishops.
The Way of the Cross was Infuriatingly Stupid
As always, the novus ordo Way of the Cross was not focused on Jesus, but on man. Man suffers so much, we really need to meditate only on our own sufferings.
The meditations somehow managed to be more stupid than some of the ones we reviewed before. Behold, the passion of man:
For the first station, the novus ordos decided to talk about opportunities for the future. This could be a great opportunity to explain the Catholic teaching on the death penalty, but you don't get this.
For the second stage (station is too dignified for the show) was about violence, and for this one a bunch of teens stacked on the stage started pretending they were fighting in an hilariously bad way.
The fifth stage actually contained blasphemy, because they endorsed religious freedom by complaining some "minorities" were not allowed to practice their own religion. ¡Oh no! You mean to tell me the Shia moslems don't always get to slash each other for Ashura? The absolute horror!
The root of their meditation wasn't doing penance or enduring tribulations with patience, but they decided to complain instead on the fact that the Romans didn't ask Simon if he wanted to carry the cross.
The Sixth Stage claims that the importance of love is "letting oneself being moved by the face of others", mentioning, by the way, that the face of their church is disfigured.
They finish the meditation with the following frase: "The true happiness consists in letting oneself be attracted to the face of the other". What? Why?
For the Seventh Stage the meditation was on mental health and this one made me really angry. The novus ordo makes people mentally ill with their stupidity, their rapist priests, and their participation in the corona lockdowns. And yet they want us to think they care about our mental instability?
They also mention that "sometimes we feel very depressed, with the feet on the earth". WRONG when you are depressed you feel unrealistically sad, you don't have your feet on the earth or your mind on reality. That's why serious depression is a mental condition.
For the Eight Stage the meditation focused on the planet. No comment.
For the Tenth Stage, they say that Jesus Christ never stopped being himself even when stripped of his garments because he never worried about making an image of himself like people do today in social media.
What? This is so absurd I don't know what to say.
The Eleventh Stage is rather bizarre. It starts by praising Christ by claiming He died by not refusing to love. And then it moves to talk about how migrants have no home and want to go somewhere they can call home. Both things are barely related. If you wanted people to be aware of the tribulations of migrants go ahead, but an unfocused meditation shortly before a massive party isn't going to do anything.
Conclusion
This are just my thoughts on WYD. It is not a serious theological critique but I thing it does enough to trigger your catholic sense out of the novus ordo.
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