If one morning you wake up thinking that everything is messed up, If one evening you go to bed still hearing, with a heavy heart, the sound of boots that echoed throughout the day, and fear grips you, go to YouTube and type in Pope Leo XIV Stade de France 2026. And if that’s not enough, extend your search by typing Mass Concorde Pope Leo XIV. And if you still don’t feel at your best and feel fragile, wondering what’s the point of continuing to live, then search for: Pope Leo XIV Lourdes. You will have a summary of all the reasons to hope: thousands of young people in silence before a mystery that surpasses them, men and women of all ages who, the next day, proclaim their joy in being Catholics, that is to say, turned towards everyone and each individual and aware of being loved with a love that surpasses them. Their problems have not vanished, and they have not been placed at the top of the obelisk of Concorde, and the Arc de Triomphe in the distance was not there to savor a military or political victory! Their problems have been inhabited by a presence, and the victory is one that transforms hearts before cities. This victory is the one that was celebrated in Lourdes all day long: the victory of love to the end, the victory of the light of contrition in the dark shadows of sin, the victory of life even in its most fragile, weakest expression. All those who were in Saint Denis, in Paris, or in Lourdes were not there for a man but through him, with him! They were not cheering a star but had their eyes fixed on the star: the one that guided the Magi to the stable and made them return by other paths. Their songs were not refrains borrowed from a trendy singer, but hymns of praise, like the shepherds who, after hearing and seeing, returned glorifying and praising God. All of us have heard this message: “I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people: Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord." It changed the course of the history of nations, and it is now time for it to change the course of our own history. (translated)