Young Catholics from all over the world expect with great expectation the canonization of Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati, which Pope Leo XIV will proclaim Santos this Sunday, September 7, and whose testimony of holiness in youth and surrender to God in everyday life inspires multitudes.
Within this framework, prayer, worship and vigil initiatives will be carried out in different countries, especially in Latin America, where devotion to these young people grows day by day and permeates communities with hope.
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Argentina
This is the case of Santiago del Estero, the Primada Archdiocese of Argentina, where Archbishop himself, Cardinal Vicente Bokalic, summoned young people to share the night before the canonization, which will be held at 10:00 am in Rome, 5:00 hours in Argentina.
“Dear young girls of our Archdiocese, on Saturday, September 6, which is in the next week, we celebrate the canonization of Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio, two young people who, loving Jesus a lot, served the boys, the young, the poor,” he said in a VIDEOMANSAJE.
“How nice it is to celebrate this party to life, this party to love. We are going to meet at the Assumption College, on Belgrano Street, almost to the cinema, from 22.30,” he summoned, anticipating that there will be “singing, encounter, conversation, reflection, reflection, to encourage us with two beautiful figures that today embellish our life and our church.”
In the city of San Luis (Argentina), the vigil with prayer, worship and testimonies will be from 9:15 p.m. in the Immaculate Conception Cathedral. During the Eucharistic worship the first degree relic of Carlo Acutis will be exposed, sent by the mother of the next saint to the local bishop.
On Sunday at 11:30 am, the Bishop, Mons. Gabriel Barba, will preside over the Mass in Thanksgiving.
The Archbishop of Mendoza and president of the Argentine Episcopal Conference, Mons. Marcelo Colomboinvited the young Mendoza to “a very important encounter.”
At 10:00 p.m. a pilgrimage will leave from the place where the future temple dedicated to Carlo Acutis is built, towards the parish of Chacras de Coria, where a mass will be held at 00:00 hours.
The vigil will continue “with holiday, meeting moments, of prayer, until 5:30 that the live transmission of the Canonization of Carlo Acutis is scheduled,” he explained.
In the city of San Salvador de Jujuy, the Sacred Heart of Jesus Church will host a prayer vigil that will be held this Saturday between 8:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. Right there, on Sunday 7 there will be a mass at 11:00 hours.
Also in Jujuy, but in the town of Río Blanco, the headquarters of the Vigil will be the Fasta School, to look live the canonization together.
The community of laity and groups of young people will then pilgrimage towards La Rotonda, and will leave for the Sanctuary of the Virgin of Río Blanco and Paypaya, to cross the holy door. At 11:00 on Sunday a Mass will be held and the celebrations will continue at school.
In the Diocese of Mar del Plata (Argentina), the activities will be on Saturday from 18, in the parish of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin. They will begin with a mass within the framework of the first eve, and then there will be a prayer vigil organized by young people.
In the Archdiocese of Buenos Aires, on Sunday, September 7 at 11:00 a.m., the Auxiliary Bishop, Mons. Iván Dornelles, will enthrone the image of Carlo Acutis in the Our Lady of Good Council parish (Cardoso 242). At 7:00 p.m. there will be a Mass in Thanksgiving.
There will also be activities in cities such as Bahía Blanca, Salta, Añatuya, Villa Mercedes and La Rioja.
USA
On Sunday, September 7 at 10 in the morning, a Mass will be held in his honor in the Cathedral of Our Lady of Los Angeles, in downtown Los Angeles (United States), followed by the blessing and the inauguration of a new chapel inside the Cathedral in honor of young saints.
The Blessed Carlo Acutis relic will be enshrined in the “Chapel of the young witnesses”, which will be blessed by Archbishop José H. Gómez in the Cathedral after the Mass of 10 in the morning. The cathedral will also host the International Exhibition of Eucharistic Miracles in the world of Blessed Carlo Acutis, which can be visited from October 7 to 9.
Space
In the Archdiocese of Granada (Spain) this Sunday at 10 am, the celebration of the canonization will be transmitted online, so they invite the faithful to approach the parish of Our Lady of the Incarnation, of Atarfe.
“We are going to summon people to live that moment together and to pray,” The parish priest explained P. Ignacio Martínez Garzón, convening to the community of Atarfe, whose special devotion to Carlo Acutis is manifested in the “house chapels” in honor of the young Blessed, small niche with a relic or the image of the blessed that periodically travels the households of the town.
Ecuador
In Ecuador, the faithful of the Doule diocese will celebrate the canonization with a youth meeting, which will take place from September 6 to 7, and will bring together representatives of all parishes between 15 and 25 years.
The appointment is at the Santa Narcisa de Jesús College of the Nobol canton, where a festival that carries the motto “with the eyes in the sky, the feet on the ground” will be developed and will consist of art, music and Eucharistic celebrations spaces to encourage reflection on the testimony and the message of the Italian saint.
The Festival will culminate with a Mass chaired by the Polish Bishop, Mons. Cristóbal Kudlawiec, in thanksgiving for the jubilee and the canonization of Carlo Acutis; and also the “sending of young people as ambassadors of hope” will be made.
Guatemala
In Guatemala, the Santa Lucía parish, located in Cotzumalguapa, Escuintla, the vigil will begin at 7:00 p.m. in the Calvary Chapel. There will be exposure and veneration of the relics of Carlo Acutis and San Juan Pablo II, a catechesis on holiness, projection of some Eucharistic miracles, and a documentary about the life of Carlo Acutis.
Colombia
In Colombia, the Archdiocese of Bucaramanga summons a preparation vigil, which will be chaired by the Episcopal Delegate for the Youth Pastoral, P. Neidder Pinilla Campos, and will be held this Saturday at 6:00 p.m. in the San Juan Nepomuceno parish, located in Floridablanca.
At 10:00 on Sunday, Mons. Ismael Rueda Sierra, archbishop of Bucaramanga, will preside in the Metropolitan Cathedral of the Sagrada Familia, the Thanksgiving Mass, with the enthronement and veneration of a relic of Carlo Acutis, Patron Archdiocesan of youth.
Bolivia
In the Cathedral and Minor Basilica of San Lorenzo, in the Archdiocese of Santa Cruz (Bolivia), a Mass of thanksgiving at 4:00 p.m., with a special invitation to the young and sinite invitation of the community to participate in the celebration will be held on Sunday.
Peru
In Lima (Peru), the Acutis Group group together with the Nuestra Señora de Loreto parish prepare for this Sunday, September 7, the Acutis Fest, with a mass at 12:00 hours and a youth concert at 1:30 p.m., in the temple located in Residencial La Cruceta III Stage Mz A Lt. 2 in front of building 11, Tacama, Santiago de Surco.
In the course of the event, a first degree and a second degree relic of Carlo Acutis will be exposed for veneration.
Julieta Villar
I am a journalist, a graduate in Communication from the National University of La Matanza in Argentina. I have work experience in non -governmental organizations. Since 2016 I dedicate myself to Catholic journalism, first in the Argentine Catholic Information Agency (AICA) and, since 2022, as a correspondent for ACI Press for Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Bolivia.