Dear friends,
While I couldn’t be in Rome last week for the Jubilee of Youth (@iubilaeum25), due to continued filming of season 6 of @thechosentvseri es, I was nevertheless honored to provide this brief video message for the more than one million young souls gathered there in Tor Vergata.

What a sight to behold and how it must have been a soul-stirring, spirit-energizing experience, especially for some of my friends who were there performing (@mattmahermusic, @skroger - 🎼🎵🎤🤩🤩♥️👏🏽👏🏽!!).
How beautiful and sacred to be a witness to such zeal for the Lord!

By all accounts, the global church is on the rise and I’m here for it. 💪🏽🔥🕊️

God bless you, @pontifex Pope Leo XIV, and all who pilgrimaged to be there.

May the fervor of this next generation spread far and wide, igniting both the generations that came before and those yet to come, eradicating all traces of ‘lukewarm’ spirituality in the process. And may this joyful display embolden the Church’s collective mission, which God has entrusted to us all, to truly embody Christ’s words in the Gospel of Luke:

“I have come to set the world on fire, and how I wish it were already blazing.”

✝️♥️🔥🕊️🙏🏽 Amen.

Xo,
JR