On Friday, December 2, 2022, the City Hall of Caxias do Sul, located in southern Brazil, hosted a Christian concert that included a lighting show, music, theatrics, and other performances. According to city officials, this Christian festival brought together Santa Claus, Seventh-day Adventists, and Roman Catholics to celebrate Christmas and to highlight the importance of being together. The official government website expressed the following:
• “More than 100 children from the Adventist school performed with a large choir of Christmas carols. The children were accompanied by their parents and relatives who attended the moment with great emotion.” [1]
• “The closing show was offered by the Catholic Vanini Band. The band’s name is a tribute to Father Maurízio Vanini, who left an important legacy within the Catholic community in Caxias.” [1]
• “The stage at the Culture Center, at the Santa Claus Factory, welcomes everyone. We have gospel singers, Catholic singers. Because that’s what Christmas is, the coming together of everyone that needs to be highlighted. That’s why we’re here.” [1]
What is of particular interest is that the Catholic music group offered a tribute to the Virgin Mary. They performed a song in Portuguese called “Mary, Gate of Heaven” and depicted angels bowing to the Virgin Mary as they sang: “Mary, Gate of Heaven, Go ahead, Go ahead, Open Hearts.” In the video below, the Catholic Vanini Band can be seen venerating the Virgin Mary during the ecumenical Christmas celebration.
Why are hundreds of young Seventh-day Adventists being pushed to participate in ecumenical gatherings that are clearly advancing the Vatican’s agenda? Christmas carols, Saint Nicholas (Santa Claus), the veneration of Mary, and non-doctrinal ecumenical unity are fostering the development of a corrupt, creedless faith that unites all people. Rome not only supports this form of empty Christianity, but all of the churches are beginning to do the same.
Seventh-day Adventist children.
Once again, do we want to expose our children to this? Do we want our children to become fertile ground for Rome’s doctrine because that is what they were being exposed to through music? The news release states that more than 100 Adventist kids “were accompanied by their parents and relatives who attended the moment with great emotion.” Who would allow this to happen? Who authorized this? Who would leave our most vulnerable and impressionable minds unprotected at one of Rome’s events that was designed to indoctrinate the participants?
There were over 100 Seventh-day Adventist kids present, not counting their families that also attended.
Are members of our faith taking part in these ecumenical events to help others comprehend the Three Angels’ Messages? Obviously not. It is clear that these encounters are actually bringing us closer to Rome, not God. And if our youth one day convert to Roman Catholicism, we have no one to blame but ourselves.
The Catholic Vanini Band venerating the Virgin Mary.
True worshipers of God will heed His commands and spread His word throughout the world. Because God’s work is incompatible with the Antichrist system of the end times, His people will not join forces with these fallen churches. Light and darkness cannot coexist. Truth and error are not in partnership or harmony. Along with being light, we also need to “reprove the works of darkness” (Ephesians 5:11). This means that when we see our people joining with Rome in an effort to forge closer ties and a greater sense of trust with the harlot woman of Revelation 17, we cannot remain silent.
Theatrical groups entertained the worshippers.
“The time was when Protestants placed a high value upon the liberty of conscience which has been so dearly purchased. They taught their children to abhor popery, and held that to seek harmony with Rome would be disloyalty to God. But how widely different are the sentiments now expressed” (Great Controversy, p. 563).
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As a ex worldly Anglican, I am appalled that so near the finishing line Adventist could be so wreckless in their dereliction of obedience to God. Compromise with the counterfeit of TRUE Christianity. The pope has created his new q0 commandments. They venerate Mary & Lucifer. Christmas was introduced by Pope Julius the first. Now read 1 John 2 :15—18. This festival stems from Babylon.