I know he is now expecting me in Paradise. The process for his beatification is underway, and eagerly I wait and pray for the day of his canonization. Already I know that he has helped me in my spiritual life and vocational discernment, and I will continue to rely on him in many ways. One day I hope that we will be the best of friends in Heaven but already I feel as though I can call Carlo Acutis a friend. “I’m happy to die because I’ve lived my life without wasting even a minute of it doing things that wouldn’t have pleased God.”įor seven years of my life, we were contemporaries on this earth. I always considered him beyond normal because such a young, handsome, and rich man normally prefers to live a different life.” But there was only one life for Carlo: “To always be close to Jesus, that’s my life’s plan.” “I got baptized a Christian because he communicated to me and electrified me with his faith, his charity, and his purity. “He said that I would be happier if I drew close to Jesus,” Rajesh recounted. Classmates, friends whose parents were divorcing, immigrants, beggars, children, the elderly, the homeless, doorkeepers, his family’s Hindu housekeeper, they all mattered to him. He influenced his housekeeper, Rajesh, so much that the man converted to Catholicism. He gave freely to the poor, and was allergic to the idea of misusing money that could be put to good use for them. Carlo was awake to everyone he came in contact with he embodied the idea that “the most important person in your life is the person you are with right now”. He loved–with all his heart–and this love was unlimited, unconditional, and unselfish. “All people are born as originals but many die as photocopies.”Ĭarlo was unashamed of Christ. Ask your guardian angel to help you continually, so that it becomes your best friend!” Make requests and offer flowers to the Lord and Our Lady, to help others.Ĩ. Go to Confession every week, even for the sins that are frivolous.ħ. If you can make a moment of Eucharistic adoration before the altar where Jesus is truly present, you will see how wonderfully you can increase your level of holiness.Ħ. Read every day a passage of Holy Scripture.ĥ. Go to Mass every day and take Holy Communion.ģ. You must want it with all your heart, and if this desire has not arisen in your heart, you must ask for it with insistence from the Lord.Ģ. He created a website to help guide others in their faith, and he “decided to help them by sharing some of my most special secrets for those who wish to quickly achieve the goal of holiness: “The Madonna is the only woman of my life!”Ĭarlo was drawn to God like a magnet from the purity and innocence of his young childhood, and this love ruled his heart for the rest of his short life. His childlike curiosity brought his mother back into the Church. He hungered for Christ in the Eucharist and received permission to make his first Holy Communion at seven, an early age in Italy at the time. From that day forward, he never missed daily Mass and Holy Communion, followed by Adoration. There was also “the most loving appointment of the day”, the Rosary, where he bound himself more and more closely to “the only woman” of his life. This young man needed only fifteen years to set those around him afire, to spend himself and his talents passionately for love of God and others, to grow into such union with God that his body couldn’t keep his soul from the Heaven that awaited him any longer. His story and his spirituality amazed me. “Fifteen years were enough for him to leave an indelible mark on this earth,” someone wrote his family after his death. I learned of Carlo Acutis when I was a fifteen-year-old, and I fell in love with him right away. Conversion is nothing more than lifting your gaze from low to high. “Sadness is the gaze directed inwards, while happiness is the gaze directed toward God. Don’t wake Mom she’s tired and would worry more.” He was fifteen years old. We have always been expected in Heaven.” -Servant of God Carlo AcutisĮleven years ago today, a young man named Carlo Acutis died of leukemia, within days of his diagnosis. A few days before he learned of the seriousness of his illness, he had told his parents, “I offer the suffering I’ll have to undergo to the Lord for the Pope and for the Church, so I won’t have to go to Purgatory and I can go straight to Paradise.” During the sufferings of his last few days on earth, his nurse asked how he was feeling. “Our aim has to be the infinite and not the finite.
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