Deepertruth: Miracles of the Eucharist across the world - Carlo Acutis Story

"My life plan is to always be connected to Jesus”. With these few words, Carlo Acutis, who died of leukemia when he was 15 years old, outlined the distinctive feature of his brief existence: living with Jesus, for Jesus and in Jesus”.

To quote Carlo's own words: “Our destination must be what is infinite, not what is finite. Infinity is our homeland. We have been expected in Heaven since time immemorial. He also said: All are born with their own originality, but many die as photocopies."

To move towards this destination and to not “die as photocopies”, Carlo said that our compass must be the Word of God, against which we must constantly measure ourselves. Extremely special means are required to reach such a lofty destination: the sacraments and prayer. In particular, Carlo placed the Sacrament of the Eucharist at the heart of his own life, which he called “my highway to heaven”.

After receiving his first holy Communion at the age of seven, Carlo did not miss daily attendance at mass or reciting the rosary. He would always try to practice Eucharistic Devotion, convinced that “by standing before the Eucharistic Christ, we become holy”.

Carlo would often ask himself why we see mile-long queues of people waiting for hours to go to a rock concert or a film, but we never see the same queues in front of the Eucharistic Christ. He would say that people do not realise what they are missing, otherwise churches would be so full that you would not be able to get into them. In the Blessed Sacrament – he would repeat passionately – Christ is present in the same way he was 2000 years ago in the time of the Apostles; that back then, people had to travel constantly to see him, while we are much luckier today because we can find him in any church close to homes.