A relic of the Blessed Heart – and soon Holy – Carlo Acutis will be present on the second Eucharistic Youth Day (JEMJ) that will take place from July 4 to 6 at the Sanctuary of Covadonga in Asturias, Spain.
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The organizers of the II JEMJ can venerate the relic, which has been taken from the pericardium – the membrane or bag that covers the muscle – of the heart of the Italian teenager who died of leukemia in 2006, with only 15 years.
Carlo Acutis was beatified on October 10, 2020 in Assisi (Italy), the land of San Francisco, where his remains rest.
Carlo was a video game fan and a computer programmer who loved the Eucharist, the Virgin Mary and football. The miracle that will make it Holy has as its protagonist a young woman from Costa Rica. It will be canonized on Sunday, April 27 in the Plaza de San Pedro in El Vaticano.
The II JEMJ in Covadonga
The organizers specify that this year’s motto will be “I will give you a new heart” and explain that the talk of Saturday, July 5 in the morning will be about “the Eucharistic legacy of Carlo Acutis.”
The meeting aims to deepen the real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist by the hand of the Virgin Mary, in an emblematic sanctuary of the Catholic history of Spain, located in the place where the reconquest process began after the invasion of Muslims in the seventh century.
The initiative arose after the experience of the National Eucharistic Renaissance in the United States in 2023, which encouraged a group of young Spaniards of the association in progress, created that year “for the promotion and support of activities that promote the growth of Catholic life.”
The organizers emphasize that although the registration is free, it is offered for the participants “some services to facilitate meals, transport, accommodations, etc. that have a minimum cost.”
To attend the JEMJ it is necessary to register in this link: https://www.jemj.org/inscripciones-covadonga/
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.