Mons. Domenico Sorrentino, Bishop of Assisi (Italy), where the remains of Blessed Carlo Acutis rest, sent a message of encouragement to young people two days after Pope Leo XIV declared him holy of the Catholic Church, along with another Italian young person, Pier Giorgio Frassati.
“Dear faithful and very young young people, let yourself be guided by Carlo, follow their example, follow their footprints, go through their way, because it is the fair way, the one who leads to Jesus and, therefore, to love and joy,” said the Italian prelate in a message posted this Friday, September 5 in the website diocesan.
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This was indicated by the bishop on the eve of the Canonization of Acutis, who will be declared Santo with Frassati on Sunday, September 7, in a massive mass that will preside over Leo XIV in the Plaza de San Pedro, in the Vatican, at 10:00 (local time).
Mons. Sorrentino also said that “today more than ever we need positive examples, exemplary life stories that help our children not to get carried away by uncomfortable images, violent examples and passing fashions that leave nothing to be desired.”
“Carlo, on the other hand, teaches us to live a normal life, putting Jesus in the center. You, parents, also help your children to discover the holiness of Carlo so that they can live a life full of joy, full of Jesus,” he said.
Born on May 3, 1991, Carlo Acutis was a young Italian who from an early age lived a deep love of God, with a special devotion to Eucharistic miracles, which compiled in a digital exhibition that spread through the Internet.
Sick of leukemia, Carlo died on October 12, 2006, at age 15. Was Beatified on October 10, 2020.
The Diocese of Asís also reported that some 800 pilgrims will arrive in Rome from Assisi, on a special train enabled by the diocese. Twelve volunteers will be on board to deliver backpacks, scarves and hats, and several priests and religious, headed by the rector of the sanctuary of the sanctuary Loss (dispossession), Fr. Marco Gaballo, will be in charge of animation.
The sanctuary of the Ribbage It is the place where Carlo Acutis wanted to be buried, with what Assishes welcomes him already San Francisco.
Relics of the future San Carlo Acutis in the canonization
The Diocese of Assisi also announced that the relic of the heart of what will be the first Millennial Holy, will be taken to the Plaza de San Pedro in Rome. It was indicated that another Carlo Acutis relic will be taken as a gift for Pope Leo XIV.
On Monday, September 8, one day after the canonization, it will be held in Assisi, in the church of Santa María la Mayor, a Mass in thanksgiving chaired by Mons. Sorrentino, in which Carlo Acutis’s parents, Valeria, the young Costa Rican who received the miracle, and some civil authorities will be.
The Diocese of Assisi also reported that, so far this year, some 630,000 pilgrims have reached the sanctuary of the Ribbage To venerate Carlo Acutis, with an average of up to 4,000 a day. In 2024 the visits were almost 1 million.
Walter Sánchez Silva
I am husband since 2008. With my wife we have three children here and one who went to heaven in 2023, before birth. Since I joined ACI Press in 2005, I have had the opportunity to cover various events of the Catholic Church. Among them, the World Youth Days in Colonia, Madrid and Rio de Janeiro and the apostolic trips of Pope Benedict XVI to Mexico and Pope Francis to South Korea. I have been sent to the Vatican to cover the family’s synods, in 2015; of the Amazon, in 2019 and that of Sinodality, in 2023. I follow the situation of the Catholic Church in Nicaragua, which suffers the persecution of the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega, as well as the ecclesial news in the region.