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[Music] When I see your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and stars that you set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, and a son of man that you care for him.
A documentary on Carlo Acutis, his devotion to the Eucharist, and his impact on faith and sainthood.
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Key Takeaways
- Carlo Acutis demonstrated extraordinary faith and devotion to the Eucharist from childhood.
- His life is a model of charity, humility, and using modern tools for evangelization.
- Carlo's story inspires hope that sainthood is possible for ordinary people.
- His beatification process includes recognition of miracles attributed to him.
- Personal testimonies reveal Carlo's lasting spiritual impact on diverse communities.
What the video covers
- The documentary explores Carlo Acutis' deep love for Jesus and the Eucharist from a young age.
- Carlo created an exhibition cataloging Eucharistic miracles recognized by the Church.
- His family and housekeeper share personal stories illustrating his kindness, faith, and humility.
- Carlo's early First Communion at age 7 was a significant spiritual milestone.
- He used his resources to help the homeless and lived a life reflecting St. Francis' values.
- Carlo's influence led to spiritual conversions, including that of his Hindu housekeeper.
- The film highlights Carlo's use of technology and study to evangelize and spread faith.
- It covers his battle with leukemia and the process toward his beatification and canonization.
- The documentary emphasizes Carlo's message that sainthood is attainable for everyone.
- It includes testimonies from friends, family, and clergy about Carlo's legacy and miracles.
Chapters
- 00:00Introduction and Reflection on God's Presence
- 03:08Carlo's Early Life and First Communion
- 05:56Carlo's Teachings on Temptation and Faith
- 09:34Carlo's Integrity and Charity
- 12:00Carlo's Compassion for the Homeless
- 15:28Carlo's Evangelization and Use of Technology
- 18:16Carlo's Illness and Beatification Process
- 27:41Legacy, Miracles, and Spiritual Impact
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Yet you invite us to open ourselves to communion with you in accordance with your promise. Your final words in the Gospel of Matthew, I am with you always until the end of the age.
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[Music] God is with us every day. It is not only a spiritual closeness. It's a physical concrete real presence.
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Over history, miracles have happened with the eukarist at the center. Several years ago, all the eukaristic miracles recognized by the church were for the first time gathered and cataloged in an exhibition. Buenosiris, Amsterdam, Paris Valencia.
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2,000 years of history, 2,000 years of presence. This exhibition on the eukaristic miracles was devised by a child Carlo Akutis. Born in London, brought up in Milan, buried in Aizi.
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[Music] Carlos. Ever since Carlo was a young child, he showed a great interest in everything that is the church, the saints, the gospel.
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For example, I remember when he was very young and we were passing in front of churches. He wanted to go in and greet the crucified Jesus, the tabernacle.
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So going there was important to him. He'd stopped for quite a long time, too.
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I was born in a family of lay publishers. My father was not anti-church, but he was, let's say, not practicing the sacraments of the first communion, confirmation, and marriage.
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They were the only three times I attended holy mass. I always say that Carlo was a little savior for me.
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Love for Jesus and the eukarist is so strong in Carlo even as a child that after careful assessment by the bishop he is allowed to receive first communion at just 7 years of age. We'd go towards this rise where there's this monastery
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on a hill. At a certain point, we had to stop because a shepherd was passing the lamb crossing the street. And he saw that as something of a sign of predelection from the Lord because we were taking Carlo for his first
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communion. He constantly felt this living presence of Jesus which then animated him to introduce Jesus, the love of Jesus to many other people.
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For example, we have our housekeeper Rajesh who comes from a priestly Brahman cast. He was really struck by Carlo's truthful persuasive example.
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Rajes. Uh I'm Rajes and I come from Mauritius. I started working with the Autoutis family with Carlo. At that time he was very young. He was full of affection.
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After nursery, he started school here at the Marceline Sisters. I'd sometimes bring him and then he asked if I could take him uh into the church to have a little sort of meditation by the tabernacle. I didn't know anything. I'd wonder what's
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going on. I could understand if he were an adult. Then he told me, "What's inside the body of Jesus present in blood, soul, and flesh?" I said, "But Carlo, how is it possible?" And he would then slowly explain to me during the
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time I took him to school. Every day he told me the same thing. I wasn't a Christian. I come from a Hindu, a Brahmin uh family. And uh my father was a so-called pundit and a kind of priest.
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Uh he had knowledge of uh of the language of Sanskrit. It's uh it's very rare for uh almost impossible for a Brahman to to convert.
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The teaching I had from Klo more than my father. I can say he was my spiritual master.
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All the actions he made struck me right in the heart. Then he said to me, "The Lord lives in the heart too." Then as he started to grow up uh I felt when he went to mass and uh took communion
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he didn't force me. Carlo explained the all the importance of the ukarist to me how it makes people live because this world is full of temptation.
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He explained it can come in forms of clothes, sex alcohol TV. He said this is how the devil enters your life and you can't face the situation alone.
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And so when he started to explain to me the word of God, the Bible, he did so with sweetness.
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It was as if we'd rarely gone up to heaven. And he told me what heaven is like, how you live, even how you live with the Lord. I it was as if I'd already arrived. I was happy. Then I I
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also had dreams about Jesus, the Lord, and the Virgin Mary. Then I started to tell Carlo about it. I asked him, "How can I have these dreams?" He told me Jesus loves you Rajes. Then I had myself baptized.
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It was 1999. [Music] Carlo really liked Aisi. And the question many ask is why?
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But you see, it's not so much the city as the man inhabiting this city. And it's Francis because the man of peace, the man who loves and respects creation, the man of the poor, they are the three great
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thirsts that youths carry within themselves [Music] and aisi is also loved because of its cultural value. Ultimately, the first color film kept here in this basilica was made to meet people because let's not forget that story was frescoed to
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reach the hearts of simple people who could neither read nor write. [Music] [Applause] I clearly remember when Carlo arrived with all the family. They bought this house near mine. We didn't know his was a wellto-do family, but he had unique simplicity.
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And this child who spoke many languages and I didn't know. I tutored him for school with the other children. Me, just imagine. I think he was pretending when he let my grandchildren answer.
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Pretending not to know the answers. [Music] I met Carlo when I was 6 years old. From that moment on, we were inseparable and spent all our summers and holidays together. He was very pleased to spend as much time as possible at Aziz. And
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this went on until his death in 2006 when I was 14. to show who Carlo was. We were 10, 11 years old. We'd gone for an ice cream on a very hot day.
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Returning home, Carlo counted the change and realized we've been given 20 cents more. [Music] He absolutely wanted to go back and give the extra money back because it was the fruit of these people's work and sacrifice.
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It was wrong that we appropriated it. So he made us go through a seiz again which is if you know it all uphill to give the sum back.
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I was seven or eight years younger. I was a child and they were already almost youths of 13 14. Sometimes my cousins wanted to exclude me from their games in the various activities you do as children. While Carlo always opposed
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that kind of thing. After a certain time, he'd go back home because he had to go and pray.
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No one at that age, right? That alone made me think. [Music] This youth struck our community too cuz I remember in the period when he came to a ceasefire said to me, "Eno, do you know Carlo? He spends a lot of time in
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Eucharistic adoration." I was so so about it. But no, he stunned me too because to then discover that he used to say people who put themselves before the sun get tanned, people who place themselves before the Eucharist become
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saints. Well, extraordinary. And thus living here in the center of Milan, there are often homeless people on the streets sleeping in cardboard boxes. So he used his own money and gave people sleeping bags instead of buying toys for himself. They'd often stop. I
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don't know the the vagabons especially in the little church here in front and he brought them food or blankets if they were needed. That's how he was.
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There was a man called uh Mateo. Uh he was sleeping on the ground on cardboard and was cold. Carlos started to worry.
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He wouldn't sleep and thought what he could do for the man. Let's say the right word, Carlo was offended.
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No Rajes, you mustn't say because they are all creatures of the Lord. Then he returned home and forced his mom.
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Mom, why don't you give him a sleeping bag so he can sleep well? And he had cooking done for him too.
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Every evening I accompanied Cartlo. He didn't bring him leftovers from our home to eat but fresh just cooked food just like we were eating. Not like if it's leftover we'll take it to him. He didn't like that. He said this man difficulty
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should eat like we do too. That's what his life was like. It was as if I saw St. Francis in him.
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[Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Carlo could experience hands-on what are unfortunately the contradictions that currently exist in the church. That is where for example youths might attend catechism class and receive confirmation but then no longer go to mass. So he
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came to have this wish to present a little more historically what were episodes miracles mainly prodigies signs that the Lord has wished to give us over the centuries where he really wanted to show that in the consecrated bread and
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wine there truly actually is his genuine live presence. Carlo used to say that we are far luckier than those living 2,000 years ago near Jesus because those living in Jesus's times were often hindered from seeing him because of space and time. It
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was not easy to approach Jesus because he was surrounded by crowds. Well, we just have to go down to the closest church outside our home and we have Jerusalem outside our house.
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Carlo was amazed how today you can stand in line for kilometers to go and see a rock singer or an actor or a football match and then there are no such lines before the tabernacle.
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[Music] Carlos said that living this very eucharistic dimension already places you in co-eternity that is you already enter the dimension of God's time kyros as theologians call it that is this time of god this time where you are in a certain
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sense already in the trinitarian dimension and Carlo was in fact aware that the eukarist if taken in good faith of course transformed forms you every time you receive the Eucharist. Carlos said, "Every time you take communion, you're no longer the same person because Jesus
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works transformations inside you. So even if you don't realize it, he increasingly tries to transform you and make you become like him." For Carlo, the Eucharistic Miracles Exhibition isn't just a pastime, and it's more than a youthful passion.
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It's a heartfelt mission of evangelization. It's actually something for which Carlo studies in university books and texts in English that he buys himself so as to master the tools of the web.
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Every time I went to clean Carlo's room, he was there with his computer. He was researching. There were pages about. He was writing.
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I said to him, "Carlo, what are you doing? It's a lot of work. You should rest." He replied, "Not now. I don't have time to rest. as well as school lessons. I I worry about the world.
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He made the exhibition panels. He did all the research. He said if we present how Jesus is present in the Eucharist, they will know Jesus. They have to see what happened, the tale, all the miracles, then the Lord truly comes.
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Otherwise, [Music] people are lost. This is my work, my duty. Bear in mind that there wasn't all this internet everywhere when he started this exhibition. And he involved us too. We had to make journeys to take the photos
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which he considered very important because people need to see signs, see photos, see paintings.
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A lot of people became promoters of this exhibition. So we really could touch all the world and many people bore witness to us that they came closer to God and discovered the importance of the eukarist.
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Carla had understood this great mystery and tried to communicate it to others. He tried to make people understand it because of course what is the greatest love one can have for others? It is wishing for their eternal salvation.
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That's it. as well as the earthly help one can give. But lay men give it too, non-believers give it too. But mainly it is helping them reach what is eternal bliss.
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[Music] During my first years of teaching, Carlo was actually one of my students. And to tell you the truth, I'm very honored about this at this point of history.
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The nicest thing really is how Carlo related to his companions, to his classmates and he had some good friendships with girls and that's exactly how it should be. In the second year of high school, I had been teaching bioeththics and
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therefore I had involved my students on the meaning and the value of life. When the topic of abortion came up, whether it was right or wrong, I remember him right there at the end of the room, he had very clear ideas about this because
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there was the disquisition, from what point can we talk of a child of human life and so on. And with almost disarming naturalness and simplicity, he said, "It's clear that it's from the moment in which it was conceived, from
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when the egg cell and the sperm meet [Music] This is the generation which unfortunately lives these means of communication explosively.
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But it's also the generation that mostly suffers because of the demonic attacks these means of communication can bring.
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For example, pornography and the use of drugs which is so widespread and cheap or bullying which generates extreme situations like suicides.
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With a click you can practically enter hell and no one protects these children. [Music] So Carlo can teach us because he has experienced all these dangers but has managed to dominate these means of communication. That is he has learned to
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be master of and not subject to these means. [Music] Carlo was a driving force in the class.
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He invited all his classmates to stop at the canteen to eat together and then right on the school grounds to shoot a video for the contest. You'll be the volunteer in Christ vivit the final document of the sinned on young people. Pope Francis
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wished to dedicate a chapter to Carlo in which he practically presents Carlo to all the youths worldwide as a model due to the way he used means of communication.
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Around April May when we were taking stock of the volunteer activities he himself became available saying during the summer I'll work on a website for the school to put forward for the volunteer activity.
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and he did so he worked on these things. We thought of presenting his work on the 4th of October 2006 but unfortunately those were the very days when he when he fell ill after he died. I found a video on his
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computer in which 2 months before dying he says when I'll weigh 70 kilos I'm predestined to die. He was struck by leukemia M3. the most devastating, the fulminating one. In 3 days, he was practically gone.
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He lived through his illness serenely because shortly before dying, Carlos said, "I die serene because I have not wasted even a minute of my life in things God does not like." At the funeral, I noted the presence of many
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immigrants, many people coming from afar. So people who could be Muslims, Hindu, Buddhist, even some with a seif turban. He worked the first miracles on the day of the funeral where there were so many people who asked him for help
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because he already enjoyed this reputation. The church was so full that many had to remain outside. It seemed more like a party than a funeral. But yes, I think it was a party because Carlo ended up in heaven immediately as
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he asked the Lord. I offer my suffering for the pope and the church because I don't want to go to purgatory but go straight to heaven.
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[Music] After his death, I felt his closeness on many occasions. For example, before every university exam, even subconsciously, Carlo came to mind. I never failed an exam at university. So, I don't know if it's my ability or his
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nearness. I I I'd like to think it's a combination of the two things. He managed to give uh hope to various people I knew who had problems. You know, when something gets to me or I feel down, especially during the pandemic, the one
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we had before, I always say, "What'll we do now, Carlo? Help me." And he has always helped me.
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After Carlo's death, I don't feel I'm alone. He always said to me, "Life is short here. If you're a good person, if you lead a good life, you'll always live in eternity in heaven.
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And I always kept that in my mind. But really, life can change afterwards. That's how it is.
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In 2013, the miracle taken into consideration for the cause of beatification occurred in Brazil.
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[Music] A miracle is called for because we say that it is the sign of God for the cause underway both for beatatification and canonization.
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So it is God who confirms. Yes. And this happened in Brazil to a child, a small child who was suffering terribly from a malf foration of the pancreas. This caused continued infections, vomiting, and poor digestion, and he was often hospitalized.
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His family, his parents were desperate. A priest, a friend of the family who had heard of Carlo, suggested praying to God for intercession by Carlo.
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And so they did. They invented a novena. And sometime later, the great surprise, the wonder for everyone.
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The child's pancreas was in perfect health. It took 2 years for the Vatican's medical team to prove that it really was a miracle. That is could not be explained by medical science.
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And so Carlo became blessed. Also due to this miracle occurring in Brazil where Carlo Autis is so loved when he became venerable our bishop asked the family for the possibility of moving him to one of the churches in Aisi
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the family made a great gesture because it gave Carlo's body to the dasis so this was another gesture of spolation it now belongs to the universal church to the dasis of Aisi Our bishop chose the sanctuary of espolation because he found many points
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in common points of contact. For example, Cardo loved to say not me but God. And this is rather a perfect translation of what true spolation is.
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Spolation of the ego, the self to let God reign. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat.
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[Music] [Applause] Heat. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] The decision to permanently expose Carlo's body came from from a request by the faithful. We had exposed it on the occasion of his batification. His tomb
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was then closed also due to the pandemic which drove me to keep the tomb closed out of prudence. But there was an explosion. Being of Vizuvian origins, I read this as a as a volcanic eruption.
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Carlo was arousing interest throughout the world. Carlo has very deep roots in London. He was born in the heart of London and then he was baptized in Fulham Road in a very well-known church called Our Lady of Dur.
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And we discovered recently that Cardinal's grandparents were married in Westminster Cathedral. So his roots are very deep in London. And there is a strong sense among Catholics, especially the young Catholics of London, that he originates here. When they look at him
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lying at rest in the church in the seiz in his blue jeans and his north sales top, you can see they're looking at him thinking, gosh, he looks like us. They find him very interesting. They find him fascinating. Of course, we know he is
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going to be the first millennial saint. My life was kind of um very normal. My mother would take us to church while my dad stayed at home to look after my disabled brother. me and my other siblings would would go to church when
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we were younger. But then as as they grew up and went to to the academy, then they would stop going to mass. So three became two, two became one. And to be really honest, it was my mother that
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that made me stay with it. I didn't want my mother to have to go alone anymore.
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Then one day, my parish priest said that there was a beatatification happening. I had no idea what a beatatification was.
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He said the boy used the internet from his understanding to help the church. At the time I was studying computer science at university in Strathclaid. I thought okay maybe a parish website but other than that what's what's this about? So I
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took the prayer card home and I searched up to find out about this this young boy. I couldn't believe what I was reading. I thought Eucharistic miracles.
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And then I've never heard of such a thing. What's a Eucharistic miracle? And the more I read, the more I was astonished. I read in Carlo's mother's book about the necessity, Carlos said, for daily mass. And that same day, I got
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approval from my my line manager. From 10:00 to 11:00, I could be at mass. I thought I was being moved in just a sense of technology. But what it was also doing is it was also building a solid foundation of of faith for me.
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And prayers were multiplied too. In particular those of the mother of Valeria Valver, a girl from Costa Rica who was studying here in Italy. One day she ended up having to deal with a serious bicycle accident that practically smashed her head and the
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doctors had almost no hope and her mother came and spent a whole morning here at Carlo's tomb.
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Then the miracle happened because the girl recovered. I had the opportunity to meet her. For Carlos beatatification, the miracle came from Brazil in Latin America. For his canonization, the Lord chose Latin America again with Costa Rica. This is God's plan.
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This miracle happened to Valyria and her family because God placed a special friend, Carlo, to intercede for her and perform this miracle and with his life inspire more people to become friends of God. This also motivates each of us to
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see the power of prayer. [Music] It was November 22nd, 2022. My mom suddenly fell ill.
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Basically, she had an aortic dissection, a tear in the main aorta. And so, she was immediately taken into the operating room. Even though there was little chance, they had prepared us for the worst. I sent messages to my friends in
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the oratory. We started praying to Carlo and extraordinary events happened. It was a difficult operation. It lasted 12 hours. When she woke up from the coma, she had convulsions and so they had to intubate her again and they believed
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that there was brain damage. We were hoping for a miracle. One day we received a call. They told us that my mom was being transferred.
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During the journey, she began to tell me about strange events. Inside the hospital, there was a male nurse always next to her in a red uniform and a nun standing at the end of her bed with a rosary in her hands.
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She was later transferred to a rehabilitation center in Vivo Valencia and she tells me, "You know that nurse I was telling you about? He was also transferred here.
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She told me that she would often ask for his name, but he wouldn't answer. He would tell her, "Don't worry. I'm here and I'm always with you. I'll help you." During prayers, I still asked Carlo to give us a sign. I go to see my mother
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and she tells me, "I asked the nurse his name. He told me that you know it." Now she's well. We thank Carlo and God who answered our prayers.
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On the very day of Carlo's funeral, a woman with breast cancer who was about to start chemotherapy prayed to him and her cancer disappeared. Carlos fame is truly widespread in all continents.
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Every day we continue to receive news of a possible miracle, healing, conversion. [Music] I went through a very difficult time in my life. I had miscarried a little child I loved and desired with all my heart, followed by a neurological accident that
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came out of nowhere and left me between life and death. We no longer knew if I would ever return to a normal life, if I would ever walk normally again one day.
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But throughout this storm, there were two things that kept me going. The first was that our father, our father in heaven, cannot abandon us to death. The second was that I always felt this presence with me, a sweetness that
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arrived at the right moment in a way I can't explain in words. For instance, if I can give you an example, when I was in the hospital after the death of my little child, at a moment when I was devastated, I was
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invited to offer my pain, my suffering for the pope and for the church. So, at that moment, I stopped crying and turned my head and asked, "But who? But who? Who is asking me?" I didn't see anyone, but I understood that it came
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from this force to which I was always asking, "But what's your name?" And since he didn't seem to want to answer me, I called him my wonderful angel.
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And just like that, we arrived in 2020, 2 years later on October 10th, 2020 at exactly 4:30 p.m. I was so tired, I still couldn't walk. And so I took out my tablet to look for anything that could help me take my mind off things.
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But instead of finding empty things, when I opened it, I found just that look.
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And my body couldn't hold back all the joy, all the relief of seeing him.
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And I was aware I knew him. [Music] When I had the courage to click, I clicked. It was the live feed of his beatification mass in an incredible moment that I couldn't understand. I just saw a requery being brought towards
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the altar followed by two adults behind. So at first I thought what's going on?
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What happened to you? So I started searching Carlo Autis but my heart was on fire.
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After the mass I arrived I was guided to an interview with Carlo's mother. She said shortly before Carlo went to heaven he said I offer all my suffering for the pope.
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At that moment I stopped listening. It was as if I were back in that morning in 2018 and for the church I stopped the video. I fell to my knees.
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9 months later I was in a CC for the first time. 9 months before I couldn't walk more than a minute. I couldn't carry more than a kilo and I had managed to make the whole trip. I was extremely
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happy. So the results are that I no longer follow any therapy. I no longer have any followup. I have my life life.
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[Music] Ireland in recent years has become a very wealthy country. Everyone would be happy, but we're not. And that shows you something that we all are looking for more.
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Ireland, I think, used to be a a stronger Catholic country, but in recent years, it's it's has declined a lot. And I think there's a lot of young people out there searching.
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1 2 3 4. We knew nothing about Carlo Acus at all. But when we went over to Aisi um they said you should visit the um the church um where um Carlos tomb is there was a amazing sense of peace that I found and
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I think for you as well Mary Eifa it was amazing you know you you've been um struggling a bit with anxiety and panic attacks you know in Ireland sometimes here at home you're thinking oh I don't want to
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go to mass or I'm not in the humor today and you know we're we're all human and you just sometimes feel oh you know when we were in a sea scene and we experienced Carlo Audis's tomb and the
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peace and we thought wo it was like we got a little glimpse into the infinish as Carlo Elba says and we didn't want to leave but it was that that really empowered us when we came back home to
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Ireland we said we have to show our friends we have to show the young people of Ireland it.
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Basically, what happened was um you you had an idea maybe of somehow creating a a a space here in um our our home that somehow kind of replicated that um piece that we felt in a Cisc basically under
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our stairs where we keep all um our coats and things like that. A little shrine dedicated to blessed Carlo Autis.
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So we thought, okay, if we can try and pray as much in our little shrine, even though it's very small, if we can just ask God through our prayer to bring some of that peace into the space, maybe it's
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a way for other people who don't have any religion to get a little bit of a glimpse of how good God is and how there's nothing to be afraid of. And we would say to Carlo, "Okay, Carlo, send
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us somebody, whoever you like." I came out and I looked at my phone and I had a missed call. And Carlo had sent our first person. And you know, he has sent us so many different people, people with, you know, addictions, family
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problems depression anxieties they all come out saying, you know, while their problems don't disappear, they feel peace. It gives them hope.
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We didn't really understand Jesus's presence in the Eucharist before Carlo came into our lives. And I remember sometimes sitting one time sitting down saying, you know, Jesus, are you actually there? How how can I believe?
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You know, but through Carlo's witness and and praying, you know, I slowly realize we have nothing to be afraid of.
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You don't have to understand. You just have to trust and you just have to talk to him and say, "This doesn't make any sense, but I just trust you and I know it's all going to be okay." My name is Isa. My name is Esther and
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I'm 15 years old. For me, it all started with this magazine. I was bored.
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I didn't have a cell phone back then and I was 12 years old. I was sitting on the couch and my siblings were not with me.
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[Music] I saw this magazine and I decided to read it. Then I read the quotes that Carlos said before he died. They really touched me.
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I had never read quotes like these that really resonated with me. I can still remember some of them very well. Before his death, Carlo said, um, "Praying the rosary is the shortest ladder to ascend to heaven." I had really tried everything to bring
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my daughter closer to God, but with without success. I didn't know what I should do as a father.
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My daughter is a different age at a different time and how should I deal with her? Then I freaked out. I was very surprised. How was it possible?
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Who said this quote that was carved in your heart? This is a quote from Carlo Autis. And who is this Carlo Autis?
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Then I decided, okay, dear Carlo, I don't even know you. But I saw that this blessed Carlo Autis can handle my children better than I could. Then I took him as a partner. And so it all began.
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[Music] In East Germany, where we are today, there have always been few Catholics. The pressure of communism was very strong and you had to be very strong inside so as not to adapt.
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People have always looked for role models and so one of these models for us is now Carlo Akutis.
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Our family went to Aisi and brought his relic here. Then we had these beautiful posters of Carlo's exhibition of the eukaristic miracles.
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Many school classes responded. In the school classes, very few are Catholic. A few are Protestant or Lutheran and most are atheist. We currently have eight teenagers who want to become Catholic.
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And perhaps this is partly due to Carlo Autoutis's intercession. Carlo made several exhibitions including the please of our lady because there are many unknown apparitions, many shrines throughout the world where our lady has appeared performing amazing miracles. But above
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all recalling the importance of prayer because as she said in Fatima with prayer you can also stop wars. Above all the importance of praying the rosary.
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Carlo had been teaching catechism since he was 11 years old. And he saw that many people didn't go to mass. They were far away from God and he really wanted to help them because Carlo believed in the Eucharist.
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those miracles that let us know about the real presence of Jesus in the ukarist and I wanted to hold that exhibition in Nigeria. The bishop came, priest, everybody came. We were supposed to have for like uh 6 months but it's
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still going on since January 2023. My life has changed totally for being a devotey of Khan that once I receive communion now I know that he's with me he's lying there for the next 15 minutes and I'm even talking to Jesus after
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communion I can't when we having thanksgiving I can't dance to the altar because I'm like I have to carry Jesus with respect when we receive him he's there with When Carlo was alive, I used to ask him, Carlo, why don't you ask Jesus to
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perform miracles in our present time? And as soon as he died on October 12th, 2006, there was the first miracle in Tixla, Mexico on October 21st, 2006.
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Similar to the one in Lanchano, the host became flesh that turns out to be a part of the heart. The second miracle was in Sulka, then the one in Lika in 2013, which was the same with a blood type
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similar to that of the shroud. The host became flesh that turns out to be a part of the heart, the myioardium.
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I am Father Andre, parish priest of St. Yasik's parish in Lenika. Here a eucharistic miracle took place on December 25th, 2013. So on Christmas Day, the Holy Communion fell to the ground.
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The priest took it and put it in water. But after about 10 days, it turned out that this host was partially colored red. When our bishop was informed about this, he decided to have scientific tests conducted at the departments of
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forensic medicine in Roxlav and Cheshin. The final results stated that in this colored part of the Holy Eucharist, fragments of a heart muscle in agony were found.
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[Music] Carlo would always explain what is the symbol of love per excelance the heart and what does Jesus show us in these miracles? His heart.
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I did not believe in the Eucharistic uh miracles at that time. At that time I'm I'm still with the born again Christian and you know as a born again Christian uh I don't go to the Catholic church but
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there's something lacking in my life I became more and more uh depressed because I was only reading the Bible. I got to know uh blessed Carlo. It's because of the sudality of blessed Carlo based in the Philippines. It only
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happened because of the COVID season that life is short. Even blessed Carlo had a a short life but he he done it fully. I went to Aisi to see him to see his uh tomb and from there I I prayed to him and I was asking
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to for help and I was I was asking for to for conversion because I wanted to to become a Catholic back to to the Catholic faith. Blessed Carlos has influenced my my life fully that I I I became back to the c I went back to the
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Catholic faith. When Carlo died and the checkers computer, they did not see him go to any nonsense websites. One of the greater things I want for youths is whatever talent you have, how can you use it for God?
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How young he was and how in charge of his faith he was, there's no excuse. You know, you could give the excuse that you're young. I'm in school. I'm surrounded by so many temptations. But Carlo 2 was young and Carlo too went to
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school and he did it. I've learned so much from him. And a lot of his quotes have helped me pray better. I would ask him to pray for me, you know, and of course I would ask him for some tips and
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tricks too. But yeah, most of all I would thank him for showing us that saintthood is actually a possibility for us. It gives me hope that I too can become a saint.
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[Music] Suddenly we began to do the impossible and we know that we wouldn't be able to do what we're doing if it was ourselves.
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In less than a year of doing our ministry, we're talking in schools to university business students about Carlo Autis.
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We're talking, you know, to celebrities and famous musicians, Oscar nominated musicians. One of our friends, Mash, he would have um he had a great idea of just trying to spread Carloas by leaving little prayer cards in the in different
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um shops, you know, department store by the books or something like that. So, if someone's looking through um books or something in a bookshop, you know, they say, "Oh, wow. Look, there's a car of less car." Just trying to get people
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engaged talking about it. [Music] We created this musical in Italy. We never imagined that it could be so hugely successful.
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This experience really helped me to see the light at the end of the tunnel through the hours spent with the other members of the cast and praying. The rehearsals were not just as any rehearsals but moments when we allowed
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ourselves to be enlightened and guided by the Holy Spirit and by Carlo himself. [Music] We were also received by the Pope.
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The musical was an extraordinary occasion which involved many young people. The musical about Carlo's life was like like yeast that's fermenting the dough, the youth.
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I think Blessed Carlo is succeeding uh in the in the Philippines because of uh the young people uh in the Philippines when you just put uh a relic cards on on one of the the churches. I tried it
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before and it's gone quickly because there's a lot of intercession through blessed Carlo. That's the reason why that uh a lot of young kids uh like blessed Carlo. Yeah. And they could they call him Kuya which means big brother in
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in the Philippines. Yeah. One of my best friends, his name was Riker. He actually, strangely enough, got diagnosed with cancer after me in October. I learned about Carlo's um beatification um that October. Actually, Carlo was someone that Riker found a lot
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of fascination with because his story resonated with him and mine too. And I eventually became cancer free in January, but Ryker continued his um sickness.
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And just seeing how Riker looked at him as hope, it like changed him in his life and even seeing how it changed his family. Carlo just really just led him to a deeper faith. He didn't just give Riker hope um just in terms of like hope
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for him not to be sick anymore, but more of a hope of like how to be content with your own suffering in the hardships of his life, but also just how to have hope in the Lord even like the darkest of times. He has this
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quote I was like reading earlier. It's pretty simple. It's like God will never abandon us. Um and it's true. I was so excited cuz I got to visit Carlos's um tomb and see him face to face. And you should have
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seen me. I was like a kid in a candy store. I was like, "Oh my goodness." At first I was like, "This guy's wearing jeans." But I was like, I got to like look at Carlo and he was like I was like
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inches away from his face and I was like, "Thank you so much for just accompanying my friend." Carlo is compassionate.
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He's happy and he's not afraid of his death. He was so happy and it's so beautiful to see.
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Yes, I drew this picture because it was dad's birthday and I just wanted to make him happy because for us, Carlo is a great saint.
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I'll show it to you. The first thing Carlo did for me was make me smile again. It was very difficult. And then I understood that he's a specialist in difficult matters.
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And I remember the first time he made me smile in front of a mirror. I didn't recognize myself. Oh my goodness. He helps me. He helps me understand that it's in our deepest darkness, in our hardest moments. It's actually at that
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moment that the most beautiful, the most marvelous part of our life plan, our father's plan for us will be revealed to us. And so it's clear that he guides me.
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He leads me to Jesus, to Jesus in the Eucharist. He led me and showed me precisely this place. It's my oasis because here we have Jesus all the time.
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Carlo, he keeps us busy in so many ways. Some days we get a phone call and we might have to go across the the country on a train to visit someone with a stroke in hospital with, you know, and
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and talk and pray to them and bring the relic of Carlo with with us.
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The main thing that we tried to do is to um talk to the the homeless people on the street, you know, just offer them um some hope if we can.
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Michael, what do you have in your bag? the action of giving, you know, the scarf and the or the cup of soup. It's it's the first step. The real action is to look them in their eyes and say, you
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know, we're the same. We're both brothers and sisters in Christ. Sometimes maybe some friends are a bit afraid or think, oh no, I can't talk to this person. But we get to sit down with someone on the street and we tell them,
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we ask them, "What's your story?" And often their story isn't very different than ours. Just one day I was I was sitting at the computer. It was like a blinding thought that came into my head and it just said, "You need to be a
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priest and I was I was just starruck. I thought no I don't. This is crazy. Go away." In my vocation, what Carlo did and what he was was the same as what John the Baptist was. He prepared me in that way
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that the John the Baptist prepared everyone for Jesus. This is this is my life now. You know, I'm now in seminary. I'm in Rome. I can't believe it. I'm in a seminary with 12 other people, 12 other guys that I
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didn't know before this. But the happiness that Christ gives you and what we experience in that happiness, what Carlo talked about, that happiness is beyond anything that you could possibly imagine. It's it's true happiness for and it doesn't go away. It
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It lasts. [Music]
Topics:Carlo AcutisEucharistEucharistic miraclesCatholic faithBeatificationSaintEvangelizationLeukemiaFaith and charityDocumentary
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