Three teenage brothers from rural Limerick, Ireland, are using Lego as a tool for evangelisation, inspired by Blessed Carlo Acutis, who continues to inspire a new generation of digital evangelists. Source: OSV News.
The boys have produced a professional and instructive stop-motion animation film about the millennial saint.
“We wanted to reach people of our own age,” 16-year-old Louis Flynn said.
“Carlo really inspired all three of us. He was a normal teenager who loved football and video games, but he also had a profound love for the Eucharist. He lived in the same kind of world as we do – surrounded by technology. Everybody uses it, but not everyone is using it in the way that God wants us to use it. Carlo used it to glorify God. That really resonated.”
In addition to Louis, the talented young film crew is made up of his Iosaf, 14, who “does the narrating and set-building for the films,” and Oliver, 18, who, with Louis, does “the animating (filming all the shots) and planning.”
Louis also does the editing. “We animate our videos using the Stop Motion Studio Pro app and then we edit them on iMovie,” he explained.
Completed films are broadcast on their YouTube channel – Fiontar Floinn – which is Irish for Flynn Enterprises. They have made five saint animations so far, including one on St. Patrick, Ireland’s national patron saint, and another on Our Lady of Guadalupe.
“The Incredible Life of Carlo Acutis is our most detailed yet.” The five-minute video was crafted over several months. It impresses not just for its technical excellence but also for its evangelising message.
Their animation brings Blessed Carlo’s story to life with surprising detail and theological depth, from the portrayal of the Eucharistic miracles, which Blessed Carlo promoted, to the Milan, Italy, setting.
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Inspired by millennial soon-to-be-saint, Irish teens create animated Lego-Carlo Acutis film (By Sarah Mac Donald, OSV News)
