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His helping the poor, and in illness talking about those that suffer more than him tells us: "You cannot sit and wait to feel loving."

Unless what you wish for is a poor substitute for reality at best - a complete darkness at the worst times - love is your savior.

Ask yourself: "Do I wish for love?"

How much have you given love today? Have you wondered if you could try smiling, even if it feels awkward, on the street? Some of those you smile at (without imposing yourself) have perhaps never been smiled at in years.

You want to be seen? Why don't you see others?

Until some time, perhaps, in the future, love is something you must trust, when in doubt, without fully understanding if it's really the truth.


Carlo also loved the Linux of that time, and other technologies. His friends often called him a computer geek for his expertise with it.

He is most well remembered for his compiling an online encyclopedia of the Eucharistic miracles.

Carlo acutis died on October 12, 2006, diagnosed with acute promyelocytic leukemia only days earlier, and given little chance of living. He was 15-years-old at the time of his death. In 2020, a miracle was attributed to Carlo. It would only take one more honest, church-verifiable miracle for Carlo to be sanctified.

This would make him, indeed, our first Information Age saint.

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