- “Not me, but God”
- “Everyone is born an original, but many die as photocopies”
- “The rosary is the shortest ladder to climb to Heaven”
- “The Eucharist is my highway to Heaven”
- “A life is truly beautiful only if we come to love God above all things and our neighbor as ourselves”
Phrases that you have surely already read in these days and that maybe you have already noted and shared, because you know, the author is the protagonist of today: the very young Charles Acute who, this very afternoon, October 10, in Assisi, is proclaimed Blessed.
He was certainly not a hero, nor a Nobel Prize-winning scientist, but a “normal” teenager who chose to live his life with enthusiasm, always putting God at the center of his days, not as something extra, but as the One who gives more.
A true and great testimony for young people, because if you look at Carlo, then holiness is truly accessible to everyone, living fully what you are called to every day.
Let's get to know him a little better... Born in 1991, busy with school, friends and IT (a true genius!). Very skilled in using the computer, editing videos and creating websites, so much so that, despite his young age, he is convinced that the web can be a "vehicle of evangelization and catechesis". He died in 2006 from fulminant leukemia, but he is not forgotten. And if from today we can call him Blessed Carlo Acutis, it is thanks to the miracle that occurred in Brazil involving a child, now a teenager, suffering from a serious pancreatic disease, destined to die according to the doctors.
The prayer to Carlo has worked the miracle: the degenerative disease has disappeared. A miracle that happened on the other side of the world, in short this October 10, 2020 It will remain written in the history of all countries!
Carlo Acutis, a life that left its mark, a story that runs through our stories, a true example of a passable path, or rather, as he would perhaps say, not a road, but “a highway”.
Anna Sironi
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