Leo XIV has recorded a video message to the young Catholics of a small Andean community in Peru, telling them: "The Church needs your holy rebellion"

But not a rebellion against what you may have thought. Rather, against the "sofa youth", benumbed and comfortably settled in the conviction that things have always been so, against inertia and apathy.

He urges them to become missionaries in schools, universities, streets and villages, and to serve above all the most forgotten, because that is where the suffering face of Christ is to be found.

We may not be in the Andes, but something useful can be drawn from these words all the same