COMPUTER PATRON FOR YOUTH

This  week our youth group who come annually, are here with many projects,  from building to bringing in over 1,000 bales of hay. So it is appropriate that news of a new venerable is given to youth around the world.

CARLOS ACUTIS ( see BLOG  12/7/13), who died of leukemia at the age of 15, offering his suffering for the Holy Father and for the Church, was recently ungraded to Venerable.

Venerable Carlos was born in London in 1991, to Italian parents who soon returned to Milan. He was a pious child, attending daily Mass and frequently praying the rosary.

Exceptionally gifted in working with computers, Carlos developed a website which catalogued Eucharistic miracles. This website was the beginning of The Eucharistic Miracles of the World, an international exhibition which highlights such occurrences.

Carlos said that “To always be close to Jesus, that’s my life plan. 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.”  Don’t we all wish we could say that before we die?

He also said that “our aim has to be the infinite and not the finite. The Infinite is our homeland. We have always been expected in Heaven,” He called the Eucharist “my highway to heaven.”

Venerable Carlos died of leukemia in Monza, near Milan, Oct. 12, 2006

Abbot Michelangelo Tiribilli, the then-Abbot of the Territorial Abbey of Montel Oliveto Maggiore, wrote in the foreword to a biography of Carlos Acutis that “By looking at this adolescent as one of them and as someone who was captivated by the love of Christ, which enabled him to experience pure joy, today's adolescents will be in contact with an experience of life that doesn't take anything away from the richness of their teenage years, but which actually makes them more valuable.”

May he be the patron of so many youth who are addicted to new technology!