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Throughout the City of Indianapolis today, there are many moments and beautiful encounters happening at the National Eucharistic Congress. This is just one of them. #NationalEucharisticCongress #NEC2024 #EucharisticRevival
Actor @JonathanRoumie, who plays Jesus Christ in the popular television series “The Chosen,” encouraged graduates at the Catholic University of America (CUA) to emulate Christ and strengthen their prayer lives during the university’s commencement ceremony Saturday morning.
“Last time I spoke [to] a crowd this big, there were loaves and fish and baskets of them,” Roumie joked, referencing the Sermon on the Mount. “So many leftovers.”
Roumie headlined the commencement ceremony for CUA graduates held on the lawn of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C., which sits adjacent to the university.
The actor was also awarded an honorary doctorate in fine arts for his work evangelizing through his acting career.
The speech focused on three main points: emulating Christ, praying more, and surrendering oneself to God. These subjects, he said, are “concepts I wish I had heard upon graduating college myself.”
“You don’t need to play Jesus for the world in order to be Jesus to the world,” Roumie told the crowd of graduates.
“I’ve realized that just because I play Jesus on a TV show doesn’t mean I can or I should stop being Christ to everyone I know when the cameras turn off, and neither should you,” he said.
“Just because you’re not an actor playing Jesus or a priest or a nun doesn’t mean you’re not meant to represent him at all times, wherever you go.”
Roumie said this does not mean “God is expecting perfection from you,” but that “you must endeavor to preach the Gospel by the life you live, by your actions and [by] the choices you make.”
He said, as Catholics, this includes “the political positions you take and the advocacy for the causes you champion,” such as “defending life at all stages.”
His second message to outgoing students was to “pray more.” He referenced the First Epistle to the Thessalonians, in which St. Paul instructs the faithful to “pray without ceasing.”
The actor said that “the era we’re living in demands a revolution of deep prayer.”
Roumie, who also partners with the Catholic prayer app Hallow to guide people through prayers and meditation, noted that regular access to the sacrament of reconciliation, followed by Mass and receiving the Eucharist, has been essential to him in preparing for his role in “The Chosen” and is important for everyone in following Christ. https://t.co/TUNj1QNMp4
![cnalive's tweet photo. Actor @JonathanRoumie, who plays Jesus Christ in the popular television series “The Chosen,” encouraged graduates at the Catholic University of America (CUA) to emulate Christ and strengthen their prayer lives during the university’s commencement ceremony Saturday morning.
“Last time I spoke [to] a crowd this big, there were loaves and fish and baskets of them,” Roumie joked, referencing the Sermon on the Mount. “So many leftovers.”
Roumie headlined the commencement ceremony for CUA graduates held on the lawn of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C., which sits adjacent to the university.
The actor was also awarded an honorary doctorate in fine arts for his work evangelizing through his acting career.
The speech focused on three main points: emulating Christ, praying more, and surrendering oneself to God. These subjects, he said, are “concepts I wish I had heard upon graduating college myself.”
“You don’t need to play Jesus for the world in order to be Jesus to the world,” Roumie told the crowd of graduates.
“I’ve realized that just because I play Jesus on a TV show doesn’t mean I can or I should stop being Christ to everyone I know when the cameras turn off, and neither should you,” he said.
“Just because you’re not an actor playing Jesus or a priest or a nun doesn’t mean you’re not meant to represent him at all times, wherever you go.”
Roumie said this does not mean “God is expecting perfection from you,” but that “you must endeavor to preach the Gospel by the life you live, by your actions and [by] the choices you make.”
He said, as Catholics, this includes “the political positions you take and the advocacy for the causes you champion,” such as “defending life at all stages.”
His second message to outgoing students was to “pray more.” He referenced the First Epistle to the Thessalonians, in which St. Paul instructs the faithful to “pray without ceasing.”
The actor said that “the era we’re living in demands a revolution of deep prayer.”
Roumie, who also partners with the Catholic prayer app Hallow to guide people through prayers and meditation, noted that regular access to the sacrament of reconciliation, followed by Mass and receiving the Eucharist, has been essential to him in preparing for his role in “The Chosen” and is important for everyone in following Christ. https://t.co/TUNj1QNMp4](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GNdyLn9XUAIP-xh.jpg)
“So great is the value of a human life, and so inalienable the right to life of an innocent child growing in the mother’s womb, that no alleged right to one’s own body can justify a decision to terminate that life, which is an end in itself and which can never be considered the ‘property’ of another human being.”
—Pope Francis
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It is possible to treat baby with fatal diagnoses with dignity. Parents do it every day. They deliver them, hold them, and tell them that they love them, allowing the baby to die in their arms.
If that’s your story, I’d love for you to share it here. With a photo if you’re willing ❤️
Friends, the appalling Congressional testimony of three Ivy League university presidents served to blow the lid off of an increasingly dysfunctional culture on the campuses of our universities. We must ask ourselves, do we want to be sending our kids to schools whose presidents cannot muster the intestinal fortitude to resist calls for genocide?
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He will offer himself to you today.
Somehow, in the chaos and busyness of the day He will come to you, He will speak to you.
I don’t know how, I only know He will.
Do not limit him to your experiences or your understanding of God or theology, just let him be God.
He wants to speak to you. He wants you to see you and allow you to see Him.
Right now, give Him permission.
“Lord, I give you permission to see me, to see the entirety of me, even that which I have hidden from myself.
Speak to me today in whatever way you wish & help me to recognize and rejoice in it.”
Have no fear. There is nothing he will tell you that will hurt you.
He is not disappointed in you, He’s not going to list your failures.
More than you want anything in the universe, he wants to convince you of his love.
#talkedtotheboss
God intended you to be born into this time and place.
In all that is happening in the Church, your country and in the world, know you are alive at this time on purpose.
God created you with all of your gifts & talents as part of the divine equation.
You are neither random or unimportant.
Be at peace. Be brave. Be holy.
You were made for these days.
#talkedtotheboss
Love the stories in this thread! They fill me with such hope in the reminder that God and his angels are real.
Before we were Catholic, we enrolled my 6 year old son in kindergarten at the Catholic school here where they had Mass during school.
After his first Mass, the teacher called to report my son's "odd" behavior. Apparently, during the consecration of the Eucharist, my son suddenly walked up in front of the altar and bowed and then knelt there. Almost like he instinctively knew Christ was there. ❤️
@JuddTaylor @PeterRange12 Maybe when Planned Parenthood (another tax-exempt organization) stops telling people how to vote your argument wouldn’t be so nonsensical.
@erinarlinghaus @Chris_SmithsJ Oddly enough, the only place I’ve seen this done was in my grandparents small town about 40 miles north of Dayton. I think it’s a lovely thing to do, and was very touched by this, but I wonder if I were to start in my hometown would I be causing a traffic problem?
When we read about the lives of Saints, most of what we learn will seem unattainable, but that’s because we are hearing a whole life time in two pages.
Saints are made in the daily grind: the little decisions day by day to do what is right: to pray, to grow, to serve and to sacrifice.
Sainthood doesn’t always feel glorious as it’s happening, it usually feels like a simply deciding to do right no matter the cost.
It feels like not joining in when others are getting ripped on.
It feels like taking less quietly so others can have more.
Much of sainthood is the quiet little secrets between you and Jesus; when you swallow your pride, sacrifice what you want and do it because of love.
Saints are not made in a day, they are made in the day to day.
Pray. Love. Sacrifice. Be humble.
Be a Saint.
#AllSaintsDay
#talkedtotheboss
Absolutely breathtaking.
WATCH: 5,000 Catholics just offered mass for Israel then lead a massive Eucharistic procession that spanned for BLOCKS through the heart of New York City
Leaving bystanders in TEARS in the middle of Times Square.
God is on the move.
Watch in awe.
@caseyofm Best part was the cameo by a true female role model at the end.
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