Jonathan Roumie
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264 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard Mar 2025
Jonathan Roumie’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They're captors because they feel, and as Christians, we believe this, that because they died for their faith, they got a straight shot right to the divine, right to God. They're like, we thank them because they sent them right to heaven. So the Coptic church declared them saints. And then very recently, the Catholic church, it's the first time it's happened.
Catholic church also considered them saints because they died for the faith in the way that they die. Yeah. It's so inspirational. It's unbelievable. And so right now I'm trying to get the film out for more people to see and get it out there so people are aware that these stories exist. Like this is a reality for people, for Christians in the Middle East.
This is a reality, you know, that their lives are on the line for their beliefs. That's for sure. You know?
I've learned how much I have to learn.
Well, I don't think I can ever do it successfully, like completely. The only thing that I, I mean, I can't do it successfully at all. The only thing that I can do, believing Jesus was fully God and fully man, but sinless in his humanity, the only thing that I can relate to is the humanity part. And my own flawed humanity at that, deeply flawed, deeply, deeply flawed humanity.
But luckily, I don't have to rely on me. I don't rely on me. I rely on him. And so my job is to simply show up, come with an open heart, I do a lot of praying and fasting before every season. I pray before every scene and then do the best that I can to simply be, for lack of a better term, a mirror of the divine.
So I'm like, I just show up and I'm like, I'm just trying to mirror the divine, reading the words that I have, being a vessel for which the Holy Spirit can use me to reach the truth of the gospel to the people that watch this show. And if it goes beyond entertainment for some people, awesome. I mean, between the show and between the Halo app, the amount of feedback and changed lives,
that have occurred, the stories that we get about people that, you know, that are, they were atheists all their life and somebody gave them the show and all of a sudden they, something tweaked in their heart and they're like, why do I feel this way about this guy? Like, I wanna know this guy. Or people who haven't been to church in 30 years.
Elapsed Catholics, like I haven't been to church in 30 years. I started going back to church. Went to my first confession in 30 years. Went to my first confession in 15 years. Like I've heard all of these things. I even once, I was in confession once myself and a guy came out of the confessional and he recognized me. He's like, oh yeah. And so he starts talking to me and then he starts,
starts to tell me what he was telling the priest in the confession. I said, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, no, you see.
You keep it in there. I wouldn't let him get that far. No, that's not for my ears. Save it for the confessor.
And then for the sacramental part of it, that's where the healing comes in. That's where the spiritual healing comes in. So it's like, It's like if you're a cheesecloth full of holes, right? And you go into confession and you receive the sacrament of reconciliation from the priest.
And the priest, you know, we believe he's been given divine authority that has maybe a not visible, but a tangible, physical power. metaphysical effect on the casing of your soul. And it's like mending the little holes. Every confession is like you're closing up those holes and restoring that connection with God in a way that is... essentially repairing your soul.
That's what the sacramental part of confession is for us, which is hugely comforting and also physically tangible. For me, I feel just chemically slightly different after every confession that I go through in a way that's like, okay, I can breathe a little easier.
It's like nothing else.
I give God all the credit. I give Jesus the credit. And, you know, like our buddy Russell Brand, like I was once his stand-in, I feel like I'm Jesus' stand-in. Jesus is the star and I'm his stand-in. You're Russell Brand's stand-in. I was Russell Brand's stand-in.
Not too bad, eh? It's all right. So we had a good time with him. Yeah, he's all right. He's a good mate. He's a good guy. He's a good man. I love that man. I love him so much.
I mean, let's take Whole Foods. So in some parts of the country, You know, I got to go in with a hood and glasses. And in other parts, especially the coastal cities like New York and L.A., it's just another day. So it can be... They mistake you for a bike messenger, but in Michigan they know. That's very appropriate. Yeah, that's very appropriate. It can be interesting. I think...
because of who I'm playing, and because there is this, oftentimes, this front-loaded relationship that they already have with Jesus, And then I become the stand-in, like the face of that relationship that they now, when they read the Bible, I've been told this, my face pops into their mind as they're hearing scriptures or they're seeing.
I mean, even for myself, when I'm at mass and the priest is reading the gospel, And he's talking about Peter. I'm thinking of Shahar Isaac, who plays Peter in our show. And I'm like, okay, yeah, I can't get him out of my head. Yeah, but okay. I love Shahar and he's great as Peter. And so, yeah, it's just, you try, even as an artist, like you still suffer that. You can't quite make the separation.
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