Gabriella Robinson cannot wait for the canonisation of Blessed Carlo Acutis – and thousands of others in Australia feel the same way. Source: The Catholic Leader.
“I love blessed Carlo. I think he’s got an incredible story,” Ms Robinson, 18, said.
Blessed Carlo Acutis’ canonisation Mass will be celebrated on Sunday, April 27, in Rome, during the Jubilee of Teenagers.
Blessed Carlo, an Italian computer-coding teenager died of cancer in 2006 aged 15, is known for his great devotion to the Real Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist.
Born in 1991, he was the first millennial to be beatified by the Church.
Before his death, he offered his sufferings for Pope Benedict XVI and for the Church, saying: “I offer all of my suffering to the Lord for the Pope and for the Church in order not to go to purgatory but to go straight to Heaven.”
Ms Robinson said she had been reading and learning about the young Italian for many years.
Ms Robinson, who is studying at Brisbane’s ACU campus, said she hoped to attend a Holy Hour in the St Stephen’s Cathedral, Brisbane, with the relics of Carlo Acutis on his canonisation day.
“This canonisation really is very encouraging for young people because saints can feel very far away because so many of them lived hundreds or even thousands of years ago,” she said.
“It’s really good to have someone in the faith, someone present who I feel like we can relate to more in our modern age.”
Other dioceses around Australia have benefited from Blessed Carlo’s influence through a travelling International Exhibition of Eucharistic Miracles and a first-class relic.
Maitland-Newcastle Bishop Michael Kennedy said the exhibition of Eucharistic miracles visited as part of celebrations for the Jubilee Year of Hope.
Bishop Kennedy said he listened to a simple yet wonderful presentation about the life of Blessed Carlo with a group of young people.
“It seemed to me that the life of this remarkable boy connected with and had an impact on those present,” Bishop Kennedy said.
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Blessed Carlo Acutis changing lives across Australia ahead of his canonisation (By Matt Emerick, The Catholic Leader)
