There was a supernatural element to Charlie Kirk. There just was. He was too spiritually advanced for his age and he was doing the impossible: reaching the young in a conversional way. He was bringing back the youth with unabashed Scripture—and getting billions (yes, billions) of social-media views in the process.
Not normal.
Rumor was he was about to become Catholic. He attended Mass on occasion (his wife is a daily communicant) and recited the Rosary.
Amazing stuff, and part of a fascinating sudden rise of the Christian young.
Who ever would have thought that the age group with the highest percentage of churchgoers would be Gen Z.
And yet that’s precisely the case.
We had this two weeks ago: Millennials and Generation Z are now attending church more often than their parents and grandparents.
The State of the Church study, conducted in partnership with the tech company Gloo, found that Gen Z churchgoers (ages 18–28) now average 1.9 services per month while millennials (ages 29–44) come in at 1.8 times. Baby boomers? 1.4.
Something is afoot, and fascinating it is that many of those young heading to church are going to traditional churches. Among some of them, even Latin Mass.
They’ve had it with what’s going on, out in society.
And it further dovetails with the recent canonization of a teenager, Carlo Acutis, who died at age fifteen.
By the by, in the way of coincidence, it has been pointed out that Kirk died at 12:23-24 in the afternoon, and that John 12:23 which in multiple translations reads: “And Jesus answered them, ‘The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.” In this verse Christ announces His moment of glory is approaching, referring to His upcoming death and Resurrection which will bring about a new spiritual era.
Back two decades ago, the great Catholic mystic Maria Esperanza predicted that Jesus would soon come in a different way than He did 2,000 years ago, that He would appear to many people, in a way that would be more private. She held this view up until her death.
“It is very different from what people think,” she had told Spirit Daily in December of 2003. “He is going to come in silence… People will realize He is among us little by little. His first presentation will be like this, because in those days an innocent person whom He loves a lot will die, an innocent person. This will shock the world, will move the world.”
She speculated that the manifestation—which sounded different than the actual Second Coming, and would precede what she called an “awakening”—would occur in “from ten to twenty years…”
