In the year 2000, the Catholic Church celebrated with great pomp the jubilee of the birth of Christ.
In the year 2000, a new generation of Catholics was born, now in their twenties, many of whom have just stood out, at the heart of this confinement which prohibits public worship, by their fierce defense of the restoration. masses.
So with Victor, who is twenty years old.
Living in Essonne, he is a student of literature and the Cours Florent where he trained in the theater.
After questioning the Catholic faith in which his family raised him, he found it on his own.
Now believing convinced, he launched last September small video clips on Youtube, Instagram and Facebook, entitled "the catho of service".
He prefers not to give his last name:
"My name is Victor, what counts is 'the catholic of service'
, he insists,
where I speak on various news which touch the faith".
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He explains:
“I just haven't found anything more coherent and more beautiful than the Catholic faith, because everything leads to that when you think about it.
Now I just want to pass it on, make God and the Church known, show their beauty.
I have no particular ecclesial sensibility because, in my opinion, all this concerns form.
It is the background that is important, an intimate relationship with God, a love story.
And the Catholic Church allows and develops this, through the sacraments, essential in my opinion to a life truly anchored in God. ”
A video with 90,000 views
As for the video clips,
“it is precisely to make God and the Church known, and to show this truth as I see it, at a time when they are unfortunately forgotten, ignored or denigrated.
It is therefore above all a testimony, I do not have the truth, but what I see is magnificent, and I want to share it. ”
His video titled “It's high time to get moving” has been viewed almost 90,000 times in just five days.
He said forcefully
“we need mass!”.
Another initiative launched by two young people, Jean-Benoît Harel, law student, and Geneviève Chotard, 22, has just achieved an astonishing performance.
In one week, they managed to collect more than 103,000 signatures on the “pourlamesse.fr” site, in the form of a petition addressed to the President of the Republic.
Their goal was to reach 100,000 signatures.
No aggressiveness in the open letter they write to Emmanuel Macron.
These young Cathos simply explain why Mass is not incidental for them but vital on the contrary.
It was in the wake of the attack on a basilica in Nice.
"Leave mass to us!"
“At a time when the Catholics of this country are being targeted, we want to bury our dead, baptize our children, accompany our sick, surround our priests (…) We refuse to let fear win. We want to pass on this living heritage. We want to make our faith live. We want to comfort each other, to find each other, together, to reassure ourselves, and to face barbarism. We want to sing, implore, hope, celebrate. So please: leave Mass to us! ”
They add:
“For many of us, it is an essential resourcing, a sap.
For the most tried, the most fragile, it is an irreplaceable support.
For all, it is a freedom.
It must remain so.
Because the Church has given you all the pledges of scrupulous respect for barrier gestures, because you must be the guarantor of freedom of worship, Mr. President, we solemnly ask you: leave Mass to us! ”