Q364 – What Is the Prudent Way for Laypeople to Respond to the Occurrence of a Black Mass?

Interview Organization: Confraternity of Our Lady of Fatima
Interviewer Name: Christopher P. Wendt
Date: May 13, 2025
A public sacrilegious act is a direct outrage against God. Reparation through prayer and peaceful protest is essential. While political action is needed to prevent such offenses, responses must remain nonviolent. Heroic acts, like rescuing a consecrated host, depend on personal calling and discernment, not obligation or force.
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Transcript:

Well, it is a direct satanic act. Such acts happen, I think, in other places in a hidden way, but this kind of blackness is, for me, a direct outrage against the Lord.

First, of course, we must make reparation where we are at home, at church. It's our first duty. Those who can, I think, should go publicly and protest in a peaceful way, of course, be there, present with public prayers, with signs of protest, but peaceful, not violent. Violence would not be our answer; it would not be the right response.

But to go there and bear witness, of course, and also to take action with politicians and the government to prevent such things from happening publicly. I think it was an abuse of political power that the administration, the local government, allowed it, even outside an official building. It should not be allowed, because it is an outrage to the majority of the population. A government cannot allow this. Yes, there is freedom, but freedom also has its limits.

And then, to rescue a consecrated host when someone feels that God is calling him to do so, he can do it, but he has to weigh the possibilities and the consequences. He is not obliged to do this violently to take back the host unless he can do it without major harm.

Yes, sometimes in the past, martyrs publicly destroyed idols or statues, and for this, they were martyred. That was a heroic act, but it was something God called them to do. So it depends on each person if they feel called to do such an act and to expose themselves to the danger of becoming a martyr.