CARLO ACUTIS
London, England, May 3, 1991 - Monza, 12 October 2006
Acutis Carlo was a teenager of today, like many others. Engaged in school, among friends, a great lover of personal computers. At the same time was a great friend of Jesus Christ, took part in the Eucharist every day and is entrusted to the Virgin Mary. Dead just 15 years for a fulminant leukemia, offered his life for the Pope and the Church. His story has attracted great admiration from those who knew him. The book stems from the desire to tell everyone his simple and incredible human and profoundly Christian story.
testimony of the mother: "The figure of Carlo can be summed up in this phrase of his: The Eucharist is my highway to heaven . My son is very young, and especially after his First Communion, he never missed an appointment with almost daily Mass and the Rosary, and a moment of Eucharistic adoration. Despite this intense spiritual life, Carlo has fully and joyfully lived his fifteen years, leaving those who have known him a deep track. He was a guy familiar with the computer so that you could read the texts of Engineering leaving everyone stunned, but his gift placed it at the service of volunteering and also used to help his friends. Her generosity made him interested in everyone, from non-disabled people, children, beggars. Be close to Carlo was like standing next to a fountain of cool water. Shortly before his death Carlo offered his sufferings for the Pope and the Church. Surely the heroism with which he faced his illness and his death has convinced many that he was really something special. When the doctor, following him, asked him if he suffered much Charles replied to him: "There are people who suffer much more than me!"
On 3 May 1991 in London, where his illustrious parents, Andrew and Antonia, are at that time for reasons work, born Carlo Acutis. In September of that year, all three fall in Milan and their city.
Very soon, Carlo proves to be a child of extraordinary intelligence, and a brilliant ability to use computers and computer programs. It is warm, is very fond of his parents, spends time with his grandparents. He attended elementary and middle schools at Marcelline Sisters of Milan, then go to the Leo High School run by the Fathers Jesuits. He loves the sea, travel, conversations, make friends with the servants of the house, is open to all and to all addresses and greeting word. Solar has a temper, without any difficulty to talk with the nobility or the beggars who meets the road. No one is ever excluded from his heart, really good.
All for Jesus
But what distinguishes many of his peers from Charles? Throughout its existence, very soon found a single person: Jesus Christ, and him growing up, falls in love with her. Since, as a child, an encounter with Jesus upset his life. Charles finds in him the Man, the Teacher, the Saviour, the very reason for its existence. Without Jesus in his daily life, you do not understand anything about his life, very similar to that of his friends, but that holds within itself the Secret this invincible.
grew up in an environment profoundly Christian, in which faith is lived and witnessed with the works, but that he freely chooses to follow Jesus with great enthusiasm. In a world based on the ephemeral and vulgar, shows Jesus and his Gospel, which most have lost or forgotten, that many are fighting. He is not afraid to stand as an exception in the world (well, it is!) And go against the tide, against the prevailing mindset today.
knows that to follow Jesus, it takes great humility and a great sacrifice. His models are the Shepherds of Fatima, Jacinta and Francisco Marto, S. And St. Dominic Savio Luigi Gonzaga, and then S. Tarcisio martyr for the Eucharist. Charles continues with consistency and not in a passenger, is part of this crowd of children who with their lives telling the glory of Jesus is committed to continually sacrifice to live in friendship with Jesus and the grace to Find, very soon for his life, two fundamental pillars: the Eucharist and Our Lady.
The Host turns it
His life is full of the Eucharist, not only deeply loves and adores the Body and Blood of Jesus, but he accepts the self-sacrificial and sacrificial aspect. Already before his first Communion, received just 7 years in the monastery of St. Romite Ambrose to Nemus, Perego, then more and more, feeding a great devotion to the Blessed Sacrament. Sacrament of the Altar, in which he knows and believes that Jesus is truly present in addition to his creatures, as God and his friend largest in existence. Join the Mass and Communion - unbelievable, but true for a guy today - every day. She devoted herself to silent prayer of adoration before the tabernacle, which seems enraptured by love. That's right: the Eucharistic mystery, he learns to understand the infinite love of Jesus to every man.
This is an ongoing "school" of dedication so that's not enough to be honest and good, but feels that he must give himself to God and serving others: to strive for holiness, to be a saint! He was born there, his zeal for the salvation of souls. It does not just pray, what is already great thing, but often speaks of Jesus, the Virgin Mary, the "last things (= the last things: Death, Judgement of God, hell, heaven) and the risk of being able to lose with the mortal sin in eternal damnation.
Charles tries to help especially those who live far from indifferent to him and Jesus immersed in sin. Often it offers, please, and repair the sins and offenses committed against the divine love, against the Heart of Jesus, that feels alive and vibrant in the consecrated Host. As St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, he also feeds the desire within themselves to bring souls to the Heart of Jesus, in whom he confides and indulges every day. In particular, notice all the first Friday of the month to repair the sins and deserve Paradise, according to the "great promise" of Jesus in 1675, S. Margaret Mary. Among his writings, his "note of the soul", perhaps the most beautiful is this statement: "The Eucharist? It 's my highway to heaven." This
his assiduous daily habit of approaching the Eucharist, gives and renews his passion for Jesus and makes him a close friend of his, as confirmed the priests who knew him closely, and even his teammates. Jesus brings to forge ahead in its path of ascent.
Now we know why: its existence would be short and the way of perfection was to be traveled by him in no time. Charles is no exception and does not hold back and, despite knowing that she is so different from society around him, he also knows that holiness is in fact the norm of life is led by the hand, confident that Jesus has chosen for him " the best part, "that he will be removed. Try to himself the certainty of being loved by God and so to be enough for him to turn the apostle of truth and love which is Jesus himself.
Announcer of Jesus
E 'highly esteemed by his classmates, he always helps, although it is sometimes teased for his lively faith. It's never an alien, but is only aware of having met Jesus, and to be faithful, is also ready to challenge the majority, "which is only right when the truth, because it is never the majority." So do not fear criticism and ridicule, but he knows that are unavoidable to achieve the cause of Jesus' companions and friends. Yes, Charles will win souls and there are non-Christians, men of other religions, who have met him and talked with him, called the baptism in the Catholic Church.
It 's a computer genius, despite his verses and years, and a sample of the spirit, for his strong faith and hard work. His friends try to teach themselves to make best use of the computer, and Charles, as he explains the programs and commands, directs the conversation towards the eternal Truth, towards God and mobilized possessed by Jesus in the Eucharist, never misses an opportunity for evangelization and catechesis. His example draws, his persuasive speech explains the mysteries of salvation. Exudes a unique charm, has a great influence, we would say, an authority that is not his chronological age. His companions are now agreed that Charles was a true witness of Jesus, a preacher of the Gospel. He understood
it is essential to a great missionary effort to proclaim the Gospel to everyone. Appreciate the intuition of Blessed Giacomo Alberione (1884 - +1971) to use the mass media to serve the Gospel. His goal is more true of the missionaries: to reach as many people as possible to let them know the beauty and joy of friendship with Jesus
In this vision of reality, takes as its model S. Paul, the Apostle of the Gentiles, which commits himself completely to bring the Gospel to every creature, with the sacrifice of life.
It 's a true son of the Church, Charles Acutis: for the Church, pray and offer sacrifices. His thoughts continually turned to the Pope, which Pope John Paul II or Benedict XVI, who is, thinks and sees the Vicar of Christ, the Pope offers prayers and penances. A passion to listen and to follow the Magisterium of the Pope. Couple that knowledge of the Faith, out of the ordinary, especially considering his age: understands and demonstrates the concepts of faith in simple and understandable, even a theologian who could use better.
Wonder and enchant both his pastor and the men and women who meet and listen to him. Who introduced him, he goes with a certain background: that Jesus is really the only Saviour awaited by humanity today, and the only one who can fill the full human heart.
Dedicated to Our Lady
The other key column on which to build his life is the Madonna dedicated to her several times throughout her life, she resorts to in times of need, of course Maria SS.ma refuses nothing. It 's impossible to talk to Charles, without considering his strong devotion to Our Lady. E 'fascinated by his appearances at Lourdes and Fatima and live the message of conversion, penance and prayer. Fatima, learns to love the Immaculate Heart of Mary, to pray and offer sacrifices to repair the many wrongs that cause.
SS.ma Maria is his advocate, his mother: it is true, for his sake, to the daily recitation of the Rosary, Marian devotion spreads among friends, visit their shrines, Including Lourdes and Fatima. Among "his" saints, prefers S. Bernadette Sobirous Shepherds of Fatima, and Blessed and speaks of them very happy to invite many people to live Our Lady's messages. It is impressed by the story of the vision of hell, as reported by Sister Lucia of Fatima, and therefore decides to help more people who can to save their souls. It seems impossible for a boy, yet to read the Treaty of Purgatory Charles S. Catherine Fieschi of Genoa (1447-1510), in which the saint describes the pains of souls in Puragatorio. Carlo offers prayers, penance and communion in their suffrage.
In a closed world to the great truths of the faith, Charles shakes the conscience and often invites us to look to the 'afterlife' that never sets. In the family, school, in the midst of society, becomes a witness of Eternity. He lives as pure as an angel, entrusting its purity and asking for prayers to Our Lady for her purity to the cloistered nuns who attended, deeply interested in their prayer life. Defends the sanctity of the family against divorce and the sanctity of life against abortion and euthanasia, in debates in which it involved.
uncompromising. E 'humble and ardent. Contagious faith, like a fire that sticks everywhere and fire of truth and love for Christ.
"I immediately Paradise
We can not write more, so it's fascinating. His beautiful story is told in the book by Nicola Gori, Eucharist, my highway to heaven. Biography of Charles Acutis, S. Paolo, Milan, 2007.
This angel in the flesh, at the beginning of October 2006, is suffering from a severe form of leukemia untreatable. E 'in hospital. He was not afraid, but says "I offer all the suffering that I have to suffer, to the Lord, for the Pope and the Church, not to do Purgatory and go straight to Paradise." confesses very often, but now it is Jesus who welcomes him into her embrace. Receive the Anointing of the Sick, Jesus in the Eucharist as Viaticum for eternal life. He smiles with a look at all beautiful, with a courage without equal. 6.45 At the October 12, 2006, Charles Acutis, just 15 years, includes God forever. Everyone's a wonderful friend and apostle of Jesus Christ.
Only the divine Redeemer and His Church may be so young, a sign that "even today, as he wrote Montalembert, one who hangs on the cross continues to attract youth to self love.
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"Jesus Christ is the My great love
and the Eucharist is my highway to heaven "Carlo Acutis
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