In different parts of the world vigils and celebrations were made for the canonization of San
Carlo Acutis. Chiclayo, the “dear diocese” of Pope Leo XIV in northern Peru, was no exception.
This parish is located in the town of Santa Magdalena de Eten, where in 1649 the Infant Jesus appeared in a host consecrated during the Mass of the eve of the solemnity of Corpus Christi, a prodigy that Mons.
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According to Jesús León Ángeles, coordinator of the Milagro Eucharistic Peru 1649 group, in a note sent to ACI Press, on Saturday, September 6, the “traditional promise Saturday took place, which is held every first Saturday of the month and that summoned a large number of people”.
After the promises of the faithful, the youth pastoral of the Santa María Magdalena parish in Eten, made a serenade in honor of Acutis, the “cyber and the Eucharist.”
On Sunday 7, the day of the Canonization of Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati, a special mass was held at 7:00 pm, for which an Acutis picture was placed with an image of the divine child of the Eucharistic miracle, an image that Pope Leo XIV venerated.
In his homily, Fr. Elmer Uchoofen Llontop, a new parish priest of Santa María Magdalena, stressed that “the reality of God is for all men to save themselves and reach the knowledge of the truth. We must be happy.”
The priest also stressed that to fulfill God’s will, it is necessary to hear it and move away from sin, with the Lord to the center of everything; Something that San Carlo Acutis understood and fulfilled.
The Santa María Magdalena parish retains a first -degree relic of the new Italian saint, who died in 2006 in Italy.
This place is now part of “The Route of León”, a tourist circuit that Peru launched to know the places where Pope Leo XIV was a missionary and bishop.
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.