{"id":11348,"date":"2025-10-15T21:55:39","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T01:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/actualites\/nouvelles\/message-holy-father-leo-xiv-40th-world-youth-day\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T21:55:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T01:55:39","slug":"message-holy-father-leo-xiv-40th-world-youth-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/news\/news-2\/message-holy-father-leo-xiv-40th-world-youth-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Message of the Holy Father Leo XIV for the 40th World Youth Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Theme: \u201cYou also are my witnesses, because you have been with me\u201d (Jn 15:27)<\/em><\/p>\n\n<p>In his first message to young people around the world,&nbsp;<strong>Pope Leo XIV<\/strong>&nbsp;invites us on a powerful journey of&nbsp;<em>faith, friendship, and witness<\/em>. As we approach the&nbsp;<strong>40th World Youth Day<\/strong>&nbsp;on&nbsp;<strong>November 23, 2025<\/strong>, the Holy Father calls on youth to embrace their role as&nbsp;<em>\u201cfriends of Jesus and witnesses to His light,\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;especially in a world marked by uncertainty, division, and suffering.<\/p>\n\n<p>This message is not only a call to spiritual renewal but also a bold invitation to live as&nbsp;<em>missionaries of peace and fraternity<\/em>, grounded in a personal relationship with Christ. With heartfelt gratitude for the recent Jubilee gathering and a hopeful eye toward&nbsp;<strong>Seoul 2027<\/strong>, Pope Leo XIV encourages each young person to discover their dignity, step beyond comfort zones, and become builders of a better world \u2014 one rooted in compassion, humility, and joy.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>Read the full message:<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/content\/leo-xiv\/en\/messages\/youth\/documents\/20251007-messaggio-xl-gmg.html\">https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/content\/leo-xiv\/en\/messages\/youth\/documents\/20251007-messaggio-xl-gmg.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theme: \u201cYou also are my witnesses, because you have been with me\u201d (Jn 15:27) In his first message to young&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11349,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nouvelle"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diocesemontreal.wp.vortexdev.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}