Young Jubilee: The mission of being witnesses of Christ back home

Two weeks ago, one million young people returned to their countries after participating in the jubilee of young people, an experience that, without a doubt, left a deep mark on their life of faith. Now, beyond what has lived in Rome, they have a mission left: bring that message and testimony to their homes.

In the days before this long -awaited event, Pope Leo XIV urged young people to “live during these days always keep him in their hearts, but do not keep it only for you. That is very important: what you will experiment here, which is not just for oneself.”

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Young read a book on the esplanade of Tor Vergata during the jubilee of youth. Credit: Courtesy of Claudia Arrieta
Young read a book on the esplanade of Tor Vergata during the jubilee of youth. Credit: Courtesy of Claudia Arrieta

Be an example of the love of Jesus Christ

About this call reflected Marta Zambrano, a 25 -year -old Spanish who participated as a volunteer in the jubilee. In statements to ACI Press, he says that those who “have had the luck of being able to live the jubilee have a very important mission.”

The young woman, originally from Cádiz, has clear that mission: “Being witnesses of faith and transmit the teachings of everything we have learned, both testimonies, catechesis, homilies of the Holy Father … even of our own experience or encounter with Jesus Christ.”

Marta Zambrano with other volunteers in front of the Basilica of San Pedro. Credit: Courtesy of Marta Zambrano
Marta Zambrano with other volunteers in front of the Basilica of San Pedro. Credit: Courtesy of Marta Zambrano

For Marta, the best way to convey everything experienced is “giving example with our attitude and being a reflection of the love that Jesus Christ shed for us.”

“We are able to give us others as he did, with a delivery without limits,” says the young woman firmly.

In particular, it highlights the need for others to “see in us that joy and that knowledge loved by Christ, which differentiates us from the rest of the people in this world, which drags us so much against us.”

Zambrano hopes that, with that light and joy transmitted, the people around him can say: “I also want that in my life.”

In this way, Marta says, you can “bring the world closer to the path of truth and life, of fullness and true happiness and peace of the heart, which is Jesus Christ.”

A cleaner and hopeful look

Claudia Arrieta, a 29 -year -old from Madrid, says that the best way to testify is the example: “Changing our way of thinking, speaking, interacting, working and relating to others in our day to day. That our around see a change in us, that they question why we have that way of being with others.”

“The best way to tell the world lived in Rome this summer is that each of the pilgrims who came to meet the Pope returned to our lives with a cleaner and hopeful look,” he adds.

Claudia Arrieta with a friend in the esplanade of Tor Vergata. Credit: Courtesy of Claudia Arrieta
Claudia Arrieta with a friend in the esplanade of Tor Vergata. Credit: Courtesy of Claudia Arrieta

He also expressed to Aci Prensa his desire that the words that Pope Leo XIV addressed to young people, inviting them to seek holiness, is “a message that comes directly from God for men.”

“The Pope,” the Spanish young woman added, “is an instrument that God uses to tell us all to be saints in our relationships.”

He also revealed that one of the gifts they gave in the pilgrim’s “kit” was a rosary. “Since I returned, I see people with the Rosary of the Jubilee on the street, in a restaurant, in the Super, in Mass,” he said.

Prayer and discernment to “land” what has lived

María Fernanda de Luna Martínez, a 34 -year -old Mexican, traveled to Rome with 48 young people from different parts of Mexico. For her, transmitting what has been lived in Rome “is a very big responsibility and duty.”

De Luna, who works in the Department of Social Communication of the Salesians in Mexico, an experience like this generates “many emotions and feelings that take time to land.”

María Fernanda de Luna Martínez and her
María Fernanda de Luna Martínez and her “selfie” with Pope Leo XIV. Credit: Courtesy of María Fernanda de Luna

When young people return to their homes, he says, sometimes “they arrive accelerated and wanting to eat the world.” Therefore, he advised “discernment, prayer, accompaniment and the community”, so that the experienced is not forgotten and not falling into discouragement.

In this context, he said that it is important to ask three questions: “What moved in me the jubilee? What impacted me the most? What does God want with this?”

The answers, he says, “can be giving light of where to start,” and indicated that you should start at home, with friends and community. “That our commitment is to bring someone else to an upcoming event, such as the Seoul WYD in 2027, so that this person is also a witness that the Church is alive and that there are young people in it, in love with Jesus,” he concluded.

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