{"id":792576,"date":"1969-12-31T18:00:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lourdescatholic.org\/church\/news\/792576\/"},"modified":"2021-10-14T04:53:36","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T09:53:36","slug":"blessed-carlo-acutis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lourdescatholic.org\/church\/saint-of-the-day\/792576\/","title":{"rendered":"Blessed Carlo Acutis"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Blessed\n<\/div>\n
Image Courtesy of Associazione Amica di Carlo Acutis<\/a>
\n<\/h6>\n
\n

Saint of the Day for October 14<\/h4>\n

(May 3, 1991 – October 12, 2006)<\/h5>\n

Click here to listen<\/a><\/p>\n

\n

Blessed Carlo Acutis’ Story<\/strong><\/p>\n

Born in London and raised in Milan, Carlo\u2019s wealthy parents were not particularly religious. Upon receiving his first communion at age seven, Carlo became a frequent communicant, making a point of praying before the tabernacle before or after every Mass. In addition to Francis of Assisi<\/a>, Carlo took several of the younger saints as his models, including Bernadette Soubirous<\/a>, Jacinta and Francisco Marto<\/a>, and Dominic Savio<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

At school Carlo tried to comfort friends whose parents were undergoing divorce, as well as stepping in to defend disabled students from bullies. After school hours he volunteered his time with the city’s homeless and destitute. Considered a computer geek by some, Carlo spent four years creating a website dedicated to cataloguing every reported Eucharistic miracle around the world. He also enjoyed films, comics, soccer, and playing popular video games.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Diagnosed with leukemia, Carlo offered his sufferings to God for the intentions of the sitting pope<\/span><\/span><\/span>\u2014Benedict XVI<\/span><\/span><\/span>\u2014and the entire Church. His longtime desire to visit as many sites of Eucharistic miracles as possible was cut short by his illness. Carlo died in 2006 and was beatified in 2020. As he had wished, Carlo was buried in Assisi at St. Mary Major\u2019s \u201cChapel of the Stripping\u201d, where Francis had returned his clothes to his father and began a more radical following of the Gospel.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Among the thousands present for Carlo\u2019s beatification at Assisi\u2019s Basilica of St. Francis were many of his childhood friends. Presiding at the beatification service, Cardinal Agostino Vallini praised Carlo as an example of how young people can use technology to spread the Gospel \u201cto reach as many people as possible and help them know the beauty of friendship with the Lord.\u201d His liturgical feast is celebrated on October 12.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\n

Reflection<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Carlo Acutis did not strive to become famous but rather to cooperate as generously as possible with God\u2019s grace. That journey brought him many experiences, but they were all united by a burning desire to serve God and others as generously as possible.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\n

\"Who<\/a><\/span> hbspt.cta.load(465210, ‘9edece41-f9cb-4c8b-9cd0-a6ac951f0249’, {“region”:”na1″}); <\/span><\/p>\n

\n

\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Image Courtesy of Associazione Amica di Carlo Acutis Saint of the Day for October 14 (May 3, 1991 – October 12, 2006) Click here to listen Blessed Carlo Acutis’ Story\u2026Read More\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":792577,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-792576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-saint-of-the-day"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lourdescatholic.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lourdescatholic.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lourdescatholic.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lourdescatholic.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lourdescatholic.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lourdescatholic.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":792578,"href":"https:\/\/lourdescatholic.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792576\/revisions\/792578"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lourdescatholic.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/792577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lourdescatholic.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lourdescatholic.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lourdescatholic.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}