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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Yeah, because you now have this relationship with these people and these characters. And so... To be the face of what is often the most important relationship in a person's life. I mean, even beyond their family. It's like God first and then family and then everything else. To be the face of that for people, I don't often... I try not to think about that.
Yeah, it's more than being the sidekick on Seinfeld. Yeah. Yeah, and I think... God's given me the gift and the grace of kind of being somewhat blinded to The magnitude of it and the weight of it. That's good. Sometimes I can feel it. Most of the time I think I'm shielded from it. Because I think if I was aware of exactly what that implication was, even for a single person, it would crush me.
I mean, other things, like I have a lot of that in other areas, but when it comes to playing this character, I'm glad I don't have much. Smart. No, so that is a blessing. Yeah. What is Halo? And how'd you hook up with it? Halo is... the world's largest, and for my money, the greatest prayer and meditation app a person can ever find. Like ever.
There are thousands and thousands of ways, prayers and challenges and meditations that people can use in their daily life to the point of automation. They just set it up and you get reminders where you can just connect with God. in the most creative ways. For me, it has been a way to keep me completely focused on God when I'm in the middle of life.
It's an opportunity for me to access my faith in a consistent way and to get through life's biggest challenges. I mean, there's so many prayers on this app that I use daily, like daily. And, you know, for instance, there's a prayer called the Surrender Novena. Novena, it's a Latin word, just means nine days. So it's a prayer you say for nine days.
And this particular prayer has been so valuable to so many people. Basically, it's very simple, but you repeat it like 10 times. And there's all in the app, like it walks you through it. But the essence of it is this prayer where you simply say, oh Jesus, I surrender myself to you. Take care of everything. Oh Jesus, I surrender myself to you. Take care of everything.
And you repeat that like 10 times. And the number of people that have experienced profound grace, And just ease of their burden, a lightness of the weight in their life. It's been, I mean, I've never heard of a prayer that's had such a profound effect. Like the rosary is another one. So there was this couple. They were trying to have their first baby. They had a miscarriage.
They were in a pretty severe state, crisis, depression, everything that comes with that. Yes. They see an ad for Hallow. They download the app. They start praying. Specifically, they start praying the surrender prayer that I was telling you about, the surrender novena and the rosary. And they were Catholic as well, so they were familiar with them.
So they prayed the rosary, super powerful weapon, and the surrender novena. And they get pregnant again. And their relationship is really growing together in faith and in God's strongest that it's ever been. Five months in, they lose the baby. And they're holding their past son who had passed away. And the words that come to mind for this woman is the surrender prayer.
Oh, Jesus, I surrender myself to you. Take care of everything. It's the first words that come to our mind. And they told us, they said that if they hadn't gotten into this consistent routine of communicating with God through prayer, if their faith hadn't been strengthened, that second miscarriage would have destroyed their marriage. But it didn't. And they kept going.
A year later, they had a healthy baby boy. And the first words that came out of her mouth that time was the prayer from Numbers. Lord bless you and keep you. Lord shine his face upon you. Be gracious to you. The Lord look kindly upon you and give you peace. I think their son's name was Jack, I think.
And so the power of having that relationship, the power of prayer, the power of being in a constant dialogue with God, it's what we were made for. We were designed to worship. We were designed for that relationship. It's in our DNA. And the more we try to ignore it or squash it or bury it or ignore it or pretend it doesn't exist or that it's not there or replace it with something else,
the more we just run in circles, the more we try to fill that hole with something else, with some other vice, some other endeavor, some other, you know, righteous indignation of something, some other effort that will never substitute, never replace our need for God. It'll never replace it. And so, For me, it's like playing Jesus in The Chosen.
It's one of the most important things that I've ever done artistically. All of this for me feels like an apostolate. It feels like... I'm a media apostle. I feel like that's what I was sent here to do. Like at this time and place to kind of be a part of this, what I see is this growing movement in film and television, in the culture that is truly counterculture to the current culture.
You know? And to be a part of the ushering in of this movement opportunity of expression that supersedes the previous iterations of what this looked like, because it's so attentive to quality. Like The Chosen aims to be a great TV show first. And because of that, the fact that the people making it are really invested in the subject matter,
make it that much more powerful and then from a very myopically human level and then god sees that and he takes it and he multiplies it he's like he multiplies the magnitude of it the the efficacy of it is then energized and multiplied globally But even just reaching one person and changing one person's life, Dallas will tell you this as well, it's worth it just for one person.
All the discomfort or whatever I may or may not feel in the world as people approach me, wanting to take a selfie in the gym or in the supermarket, when I'm clearly trying to like get in and out.
I mean, all of, all of that discomfort for me personally, and it's, I've been through worse, you know, like I've been through real discomfort that it's nothing, something, but it's, it's relative, you know what I'm saying? So all of it's worth it because one person decided to go get baptized and now they have like, they have a whole new life.
They have a whole new, they have a spiritual awakening and,
um so it can't operate in europe yeah that was a tough one they just they had just launched in polish and italian and i think german and like all these languages and and now they can't people can't know about the app because they've why is that a threat i mean it just does tell you everything right i mean it's like it's like understanding things in reverse yeah
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