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00:11The hot air balloon needs to unload its weights to rise high, just like the soul needs to unload its weights to rise high.
00:17rising to heaven requires also removing those small burdens that are venial sins.
00:43This is what Charles thought of the confession and what would bring him closer and closer
00:48to the Eucharist, his highway to heaven.
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08:35a bite of snack his snack to give to those who didn't have one or put aside the money
08:41to help the missions to help the work of San Francesco dei poveri at the soup kitchen this
08:46full availability this full ability to intuit the needs of others and to reach them
08:53he was trying to solve the problem before they asked him to.
08:57his behavior showed that if he could help you he would do his utmost to do so.
09:04For example, he did my thesis for middle school, let's say. I asked him, he asked me which ones
09:11they were the topics and the day the day I had to present it he did not present one he did
09:16a powerpoint presentation without me even doing anything no look leave it no no no
09:21tomorrow between Porto and him despite being a study load he brought it to me he made me this
09:27presentation like this one day and this to say he in many ways gave the example more than
09:33if you talked to him about friends or problems you had he is always ready to give you a hand and in any case
09:39he was always able to be very moderate even in the advice given. Carlo was very generous and often there
09:45He would even give us something of his own if he saw that we liked it so much, he would happily give it to us.
09:51He loved being with others, understanding them, relaunching ideas and also offering himself as an organizer of their time.
10:02free I liked to spend time with others my name is ragis and I come from the island maurizio I am
10:11Born into a Hindu family of Brahmin priestly caste I will never forget the first time
10:19that I met Carlo in 1996 and I was lucky enough to live next to Carlo until
10:28When
10:28he did not ascend to heaven in 2006, Carlo for me was a true master despite the fact that he was
10:35more
10:35smaller than me
10:50Carlo had many passions and one of the greatest was visiting monasteries with his family
10:56and places of worship he often spent Sundays at the Morimondo Abbey the abbey is located at
11:02gates of Milan and it is a place where he found peace and tranquility among nature
11:16a unique moment of sharing with the people he loved
11:32another place dear to him was the Franciscan sanctuary of La Verna where he found
11:38reconciliation with that creation lived and conceived by the saint of Assisi
12:08This passion of his had pushed him several times
12:11parents to accompany him on trips to the greatest sanctuaries such as the Urde Fatima with
12:16Fatima had a special relationship that was renewed day by day Fatima was a place that brought
12:23always in his heart and gave him energy for his daily life. He had visited the basilica with great
12:30emotion and the chapel of the apparitions
12:51Carlo had also visited the houses of the three little shepherds where they had grown up and where nearby
12:58they had been lucky enough to see the Madonna and the angel
13:09he always kept alive the memory of the story of the three little shepherds that he kept within himself as an example of life
13:32in the gospel Charles had read that phrase of St. John which said of love and that of love however
13:39converted into concrete works
13:41loving that god as he loved him he loved him in his brothers and he tried to involve everyone both in the family
13:49friends and relatives saying no, let's not take the superfluous
13:53the church space for him was a source but not a dwelling place even in imagining the functions it could have exercised
14:05for him the Christian is leaven that is given in everyday life with others
14:15he brought his Christian leaven, which he cared a lot about
14:20Now we are also talking about people who, having met him, have questioned themselves about faith
14:28and so this already raised questions in those around him
14:33because it was actually not common to find a boy who perhaps left his snack aside to give it to the poor man who
14:41met at the street corner
14:51his spiritual behavior was transformed into social behavior
14:56Carlo devoted himself to concrete actions in helping others and being as close to them as possible.
15:14I remember there was an old beggar named Emanuele who slept every night outside the church on some cardboard boxes
15:24As soon as Carlo noticed, he immediately got worried and with his savings he asked his mother for permission to
15:34give a sleeping bag as a gift
15:36that we take him together and every evening Carlo would put some of his dinner aside and I would help him
15:46bring to Emanuele
15:49Suddenly Emanuele no longer came to sleep outside the church and Carlo was very sorry that he couldn't help him.
15:59more
15:59What struck me most when reading the testimonials about Carlo was his complete availability
16:08not only listening to what God wanted from him but he was already ready, he was already available to say
16:14it's okay whatever it is I'm here
16:16Carlo was like all children except that he had this immense faith.
16:24that is, it was really something that stood out despite, let's say, his childish side and his faith side could
16:31go hand in hand
16:32It's not that one was hiding the other
16:34If I had to describe in a few words the thing that struck me most about Carlo was his
16:41deep faith and generosity
16:44I had never seen a child who attended mass every day.
16:51and who recited the Holy Rosary with daily fidelity and who always performed Eucharistic adoration
17:00praying for him was a conversation, it was an encounter with that Jesus who he felt close to but it was also a
17:08way to intercede for others
17:10it was also a way to help others to do charity
17:14Prayer is realizing that everything we experience precedes us, accompanies us and has its own destination.
17:28I mean, I never remember him wanting anything
17:32I pray because I need this something, it was more of a prayer for myself but also for others
17:38others
17:38it was a simple prayer even his face was calm, very well paid, serene
17:47in this regard I remember well that Carlo was in close contact with the hermits and the cloistered nuns
17:54up on the outskirts of Milan
17:56and his frequenting of contemplative nuns led him to say the importance that these women and men also have
18:06in the church
18:06because he said if these people are truly able to seriously carry out their vocation as contemplatives
18:14they will also be able to help many others who do not pray and who do not even know God but they will be able to draw the
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18:53prayer, as Pope Benedict XVI said very well, is the breath of the soul
19:00and just as breathing is made up of two times, so too is prayer.
19:11the first moment the first time is when we take in the good air of God the air full of
19:20life of God's life
19:21and the second time of prayer is when we give back the air full of carbon dioxide
19:30and in prayer which needs silence it needs a lot of perseverance
19:37we also rediscover our being creatures
19:41in prayer we have the possibility of concretely entering into God's space
19:50Carlo used to say I have a goal like everyone else who is born on this earth
19:54reaching heaven there is the definitive encounter with Christ where we will be happy forever
19:59He knew that happiness here would be partial, but he believed in Christ's promise of a full future happiness.
20:08and he said to reach this goal this path that wasn't even for him
20:13it was easy it's not for anyone
20:15he had a compass which was the word of God
20:17This compass would have led him and oriented him in his daily life
20:23the word of God was like an anchor for him and all he had to do was scroll through it and read it and he would find something there.
20:30the answers at the moment
20:32he found the answers to all his doubts there he found the answers to all his problems there
20:51we went to Assisi together because that was the period in which I saw him the most anyway
21:02In Assisi, however, being a more Catholic village with more churches than the place we went to in the summer
21:10it allowed us to go to mass, let's say
21:13that is, he mostly took me and my brother to mass
21:16because he had a different feeling than what ours could have been at that age
21:22It was a fundamental thing that we had to do every day.
21:31Carlo and I often went to Monte Subasio to play
21:34that there are obviously hills there, some steep, others a little less so
21:39and we played with the kite, with the dogs, with the frisbee
21:43we also played a little at being explorers
21:46where there were places that were perhaps a little more hidden
21:51but as soon as we found a place a little more special
21:53we immediately went there to explore, to make treasure maps
21:57anyway we were kids
21:59so anything a little more particular for us was a world
22:16Charles loved Assisi
22:18he loved the nature around the city
22:20but he also loved getting lost in the alleys
22:22and find those places that made his moments of reflection and prayer unique
22:26he was fascinated by the magnificence of the Basilica of San Francesco
22:31which preserves the memory of the Saint of Assisi
22:33he was fascinated by the beauty of the Church of Santa Chiara
22:37destination of numerous pilgrims
22:39he was fascinated by the majesty of the Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli
22:43which preserves in the Porziuncola the heart of the Franciscan idea
22:47but often the smaller places were collected
22:50like the Church of Santo Stefano
22:52where he found serenity for his introspection
22:58Charles' presence in Assisi
23:00it is still today witnessed by realities that remember his life
23:03the oratory of the parish of Santa Maria Maggiore
23:07it was named after Charles himself
23:36which gathered in the smallest places
23:41Prayer is becoming aware of the fact that we are always under this gaze
23:46that inside us, before us, there is a face
23:49and the eyes of this face never leave us
23:54we enter the monastery to seek only the Lord
23:58and we do it by looking for it in company
24:03with other sisters with whom we share the journey
24:07and then embracing the sisters with whom we live together every day
24:12we know that we embrace the whole Church and we embrace the whole world
24:17there is something really essential
24:21that the only way to truly fulfill myself is to go outside of myself
24:30and give myself to others
24:32there is a very significant phrase by Carlo that says
24:36the Eucharist is my highway to heaven
24:39Why?
24:40because he saw in this sacrament
24:42the fastest and safest way and the possibility to reach heaven
24:48in fact his whole life, if one can say so
24:51It was focused on the Eucharist
24:53seen not only as a sacrifice
24:55but also as communion
24:57as a way of entering into communion and intimacy with Jesus
25:00the Eucharist is the form in which the Lord has given himself to us
25:10so that we could through this sign of bread
25:17learn that we are meant to have energy
25:24to walk in justice
25:28in goodness
25:30in sincere communication with others
25:33the Eucharist is the Gospel that becomes nourishment
25:39and his whole life revolved around this sacrament
25:43anticipating, asking to anticipate the first communion
25:46therefore already a sign of a certain maturity
25:49and he often repeated that as people say he doesn't understand
25:52why are they all flocking to the stadiums?
25:55towards the shows, towards the cinemas
25:57when he says instead when there is the source
25:59of our salvation and love in the Church
26:02there is no crowd
26:03We know well that the Eucharist cannot be defined
26:07in two words
26:08It has a really big mystery
26:10and Carlo had understood and experienced it deeply
26:14This is why Carlo has a great love for the Eucharist
26:19because it is precisely in the Eucharist that he meets the Lord
26:22and what also strikes us is this young man
26:26who attends the Eucharistic celebration every day
26:29and pray the rosary every day
26:32seek an intense and personal relationship with the Lord every day
26:36and not only does he seek it for himself
26:39but also tries to spread it to those around him
26:43here is this friendship with Jesus
26:45was born from the encounter with Jesus and the Eucharist
26:49because for him the Eucharist was simply Jesus
26:52then seek and desire the Eucharist
26:55it meant being with this friend
26:58with this person who loved him
27:01who looked for it
27:02who wanted it
27:03and that slowly transformed it into itself
27:07There is a source of grace here and no one takes advantage of it.
27:11this was this worry
27:12this sense of regret
27:16so that no one took advantage of the Eucharist in an adequate way
27:20that he also wanted to make an exhibition on the Eucharistic miracles
27:24an exhibition that was a great success
27:27It has been spread across five continents
27:29he toured parishes and sanctuaries
27:31among the largest sanctuaries
27:32Fatima, Lourdes, Santiago de Compostela
27:35and it's about panels
27:38that he had conceived this exhibition
27:40panels where they tell their stories
27:41the great Eucharistic miracles that occurred
27:44over the course of the centuries
27:46from the smallest to the most famous
27:48Among the best known is Lanciano
28:05here we are in the place where it probably happened
28:08the sign 1300 years ago
28:13and like all signs they always arise from some problem
28:16whether it is physical like for Jesus who healed the sick
28:18both internal
28:20and the problem was internal
28:22there was a Basilian monk
28:23there was a small community of Basilian monks
28:26came here from the East
28:27this monk was in a crisis of faith
28:29because like all of us, faith is always tempted
28:33so let's see a little piece of bread
28:35let's see some wine
28:37but we believe that this is the flesh of Christ
28:40and that is the blood of Christ
28:42well, the senses don't always help reason
28:46and faith is often tempted
28:48here, during one of these crisis celebrations
28:51after having said on the bread, on the large wafer
28:55which is still consecrated today
28:56this is my body
28:58and on the chalice this is my blood
29:00he finds a slice of fresh meat on his hand
29:05and the chalice is full of blood
29:08because it's one thing to believe here with your head
29:11and it's one thing to actually find yourself before the signs of the body and blood of Christ
29:16there, this man's faith was rekindled
29:19of this priest
29:21like the faith of so many people today
29:23who comes to visit this sanctuary
29:25the discovery of the Eucharistic miracle of Lanciano changed Carlo's life
29:30Carlo loved to remember that in the Eucharistic miracle of Lanciano
29:34the consecrated host transformed into flesh
29:36it turned out to be a section of the myocardium
29:39that particular muscle that forms the walls of the heart
29:42without which he couldn't beat
29:44just as the Eucharist does with the Church
29:49we Franciscan friars have been here since 1252
29:52that we obviously guard and animate this sanctuary
29:56over the centuries they have made their checks
30:00they looked to see if the flesh was corrupted and not corrupted
30:03the blood itself did not clot into a single block
30:07but in five lumps
30:08at the beginning they placed this one, let's call it that
30:12this slice of meat
30:13on a board and propped it up with 12 nails
30:1812 pins to keep it open
30:21we arrive at 1970 when Dr. Linoli
30:26histologist at the University of Siena
30:29he was called to us with the bishop's permission
30:32to check what we were actually storing
30:35I briefly mention the results that have fascinated the world
30:39We have hundreds of thousands of pilgrims here every year
30:43then the meat is human flesh
30:46and even the blood is human blood
30:48the blood group is group AB
30:51which is the same blood type as the bloodstains on the shroud
30:55even the flesh is not just any piece of the body
31:00meat is a section of the heart
31:05when you go to analyze both blood and flesh
31:09the analysis revealed fresh meat and even fresh blood
31:14the Lord wanted to manifest himself in this sign with a section of the heart
31:20the central part that I was talking about opened both because it dried out and therefore opened a little
31:24part of that opening is the left ventricle of the heart
31:29where the heart pumps blood to give life to people
31:34and this already indicates something that goes beyond the pure and mere scientific aspect
31:54Even today, Eucharistic miracles represent warnings that humanity should take note of.
32:00Recently the Lord wanted to draw attention to this incredible reality
32:04performing other Eucharistic miracles
32:07like the one in Tixtla in Mexico, Buenos Aires in Argentina
32:11and Sokolka and Leniczka in Poland
32:15here too the consecrated host was transformed into flesh
32:19which after careful scientific examinations was found to be the same as the Lanciano host
32:24be made up of myocardial tissue
32:31Carlo was a great devotee of the Madonna
32:34and he said that the most romantic date of the whole day
32:38it was the meeting with Mary in the rosary because for him the rosary was his favorite prayer
32:43we went to Milan to visit him and I remember that when we left the church we met some boys older than us
32:51I think we were teenagers anyway, we were about ten years old
32:55and they gave us rosaries and they gave us lots of them
33:00and then there was one of us each so we started praying all together
33:04because we were so euphoric about this gift that these guys gave us.
33:09at that moment it was almost as if it was, at least for me, a game
33:14prayer instead was an additional reason for him to be with us
33:17he was accompanied by his parents to the various Marian sanctuaries
33:21especially the largest ones, Lourdes and Fatima
33:23they also took a car trip
33:45returning from this sanctuary he was struck
33:47he had some nuns and a priest tell him about it
33:50the entire message of Fatima from the first apparition of May 13th
33:54and what did the Madonna ask?
33:56Our Lady asked for prayers so that men would not go to hell
34:10The deep bond with Fatima continues even after Carlo's death
34:14An exhibition of pilgrims and saints inside the sanctuary
34:18remember Carlo's great devotion to the Madonna
34:21A backpack and a rosary are there as a symbol and a reminder
34:26of the young and devoted life
34:47Saint John Paul II said that the rosary beats the rhythm of human life.
34:52in the sense that we also find our stories, our difficulties there
34:57so it becomes natural in the prayer of the rosary
35:00carry the difficulties of the people who are dearest to us
35:04of families, of all humanity
35:07Now, this struck him so much.
35:10in Carlo's mind, so impressed
35:12what should I say to avoid hell and purgatory for people?
35:16I will try to make these messages of Our Lady known even more
35:19to enable people to avoid all the consequences
35:23and therefore he created this exhibition which tells the story of the main apparitions
35:30from Bonnet, Lourdes, Fatima
35:32a whole series of apparitions in which either some saints or some visionaries are the protagonists
35:37all those officially recognized by the Church
35:40I remember that once I was present in Church
35:45and he was looking at some of the things that were here in the Church
35:51he came to me and told me
35:55look, this morning I was struck
35:59from that Madonna that is under the lectern
36:04where we proclaim the word during the liturgy
36:08and I stopped to decipher the meaning of Maria's smile
36:17because this sculpture is truly unique, I must say
36:23which is of the Campione masters
36:26and then I told him like
36:29look, this smile contains the secret of the unspeakable
36:37what happened to her
36:39giving flesh to the son of God
36:42for her the unspeakable remained
36:45but she was happy with it all her life
37:15I learned about Carlo's story through testimonials
37:21the first written by his biographer
37:25Nicola Gori
37:26and then also through the testimony of one of her relatives
37:29of his aunt
37:30and where precisely from the living voice of this direct witness
37:36I learned about Carlo's story
37:38and his luminous testimony
37:41because it's a very beautiful and touching story
37:43that in a teenager there was such a strong desire for God
37:49and almost a desire like that of a monk
37:51of a vocation that a monk lives
37:53of the absolute of God
37:54and at the same time of this great charity
37:57of this great need
38:00and of this testimony of his giving himself to others
38:02Carlo had a particular talent for computers
38:06he loved computers
38:08he was very good at computer science
38:10he liked to make new plans
38:13he also helped some parishes
38:15helped many people
38:17Carlo already at 10 years old
38:2011 at most
38:21I think he knew how to use technology in an excellent way
38:25because he did things that I didn't even imagine
38:28he had also bought a book
38:30in which various techniques for editing were written
38:34also other things that always concerned technology
38:36as if it were a manual
38:38What Carlo said he truly lived
38:40it wasn't just nice thoughts he wrote
38:44but it was truly the testimony of his direct experience
38:47of Christian
38:49I read Carlo Cutis' biography
38:51and I was struck by this young man
38:54so in love with Jesus and Mary
38:57Carlo is a young man who lives with freshness
39:01and the enthusiasm of his age
39:02what life offers him
39:04the thing I would most like to emphasize
39:08it's a bit of this boy's discovery
39:10truly original
39:13let's say for today's times
39:16he is the one who took life seriously
39:18without escaping anything
39:20this is something that really struck me
39:22without escaping even the most painful aspects
39:26or the more challenging ones
39:27or moral responsibility
39:28even considering so young
39:33the end of life which is death
39:36and I remember precisely that he said
39:39but today a parish should have a website
39:45in which to offer his image
39:49and receive questions, proposals, considerations
39:54from those who love community life
39:58why don't we do it?
40:00and I say this is a wonderful idea
40:03you become a communicator of this idea
40:08at your friends
40:10form a group
40:12that develops a parish website project
40:16this gift, this gift for computing
40:19this ability
40:20he put it at the service of God
40:22he put it at the service of others
40:23here's the difference
40:24It's not like he kept it to himself
40:26to exploit it
40:27or for any reason
40:30that it was not charity towards others
40:32or the recognition of God
40:34and he the project
40:37unfortunately he was unable to see it realized
40:41but immediately after his death
40:44I know the group
40:47had created the conditions
40:50for good articulation
40:53of this parish site
41:17one morning
41:20I see myself knocking on the door
41:23at the door of the sacristy
41:25the parents
41:28I open the door
41:30I see them in front of me
41:31I see them worried
41:35I see them sad
41:37and they tell me
41:39No
41:40knows
41:40Don Gianfranco
41:47he left us
41:51I confess to you that at that moment
41:54not knowing that he had this severe form of the disease
41:58sudden and serious illness
42:00I had said to myself
42:03but what ran away from home
42:09and they told me no
42:11the Lord
42:12he took it away from us
42:15unfortunately with Carlo
42:16in the last period
42:17I didn't speak
42:19I haven't seen it at all
42:20they told me
42:22of his illness
42:24a week before he died
42:26Therefore
42:26I know little or nothing
42:29but
42:30Meaning what
42:31if that's really how it went
42:33I'm more than happy
42:35that he went in peace
42:36what respect
42:37to have suffered
42:39but this thing had me
42:41deeply shocked
42:44a tear
42:47unthinkable
42:50it was for me
42:52a test
42:55don't read this
42:57I never understood
42:59why is this
43:01And
43:05I am destined to die
43:18to
43:33Thank you all.
44:00Thank you all.
44:18In fact, he experienced his death as a gift, in the sense that it was now the last moments and not
44:27It was certainly not easy for his parents, nor for the doctors, nor for the paramedics to inform him that he was dying.
44:35But he now realized that he had reached the end and so he gave this final life of his
44:40to the Pope and to the Church.
45:20Thank you all.
45:23Regarding the universal call to holiness, everyone is called to holiness and Carlo was convinced of this because he said
45:31The opportunity that God offers us is for everyone, not just for a privileged few.
45:35We can all meet him, reach him and reach heaven. And there was a phrase he used to say, everyone is born original but
45:43many die like photocopies.
45:45What did he mean? He meant this, original in the sense that everyone receives gifts from God, has potential.
45:51from the very beginning, from birth and then along the way it gets lost.
45:54He gets lost and conforms, becomes one among the crowd or gets confused with the rest.
46:02What Carlo said, that children are born original but then in the end they die like photocopies, is profoundly true.
46:11because before God every person is an original, unique, unrepeatable project.
46:17This is precisely the profound dignity of the human person.
46:22This is a statement from someone who is so familiar with God that he can read reality with
46:30the very eyes of God.
46:31Truly, each of us is unique, unrepeatable, original because we come from the very heart of the Father.
46:39And when the Father thinks of each of us he puts all his love which makes us unique and
46:48unrepeatable.
46:49Contemporary culture does not favor individual originality but rather massification and standardization.
46:57In the end they create a sort of uniform undergrowth where the truly specific identity and the gift are lost.
47:07specific to each person.
47:08It is we who ultimately let ourselves go and do not realize ourselves either as creatures or as children of God.
47:14how it should be done.
47:16Well, this aspect was fundamental in him.
47:19He saw in each person the capacity to fulfill themselves, to truly become a disciple of Jesus and achieve holiness.
47:30It was a great sensitivity of his to say, I will become what in God's mind I already am.
47:42If I can intercept it, see the signs, if I learn to read the signs that ask me what I can be
47:54am I here or what should I dedicate myself to.
47:58The theme of the vocation to be a mature Christian was a theme he was very fond of but he did not improvise choices.
48:10premature.
48:11Carlo left a great legacy which is this.
48:15For everyone, starting from his example, Jesus is not a stranger but a close person, he is a
48:21Friend.
48:21That there are values beyond earthly ones, that there is also another life waiting for us where we will be more
48:28happy
48:29and that charity and friendship are within everyone's reach.
48:32This message of optimism, of trust in God, of trust in others, this is Carlo's great legacy.
48:37What Carlo left me, after some time, and which I still think about often, is how something is
48:45What is important is what one does rather than what one says.
48:50Today it is important to be able to put certain teachings into practice.
48:56That's a difficult thing to do, but in the end that's what really matters.
49:01I think that he, for the way he behaved in a natural, altruistic way, was absolutely incredible and could be an example
49:10for anyone.
49:11Carlo was such a high example of spirituality and sanctity that I felt within me the desire to become one
49:22to be baptized and thus also be able to receive communion.
49:26He chose Saint John, Saint John the Evangelist, as his favorite disciple.
49:31Why? Because that scene told in the Gospel has always remained etched in his mind.
49:36that during the last supper, when Jesus was betrayed by Judas, behold, St. John rested his head on his chest
49:44of Jesus.
49:45Charles, in this gesture, saw a clear message and invitation addressed to all men of all times to
49:51to become true disciples of Christ too.
49:54With his reclining of his head on the heart of Christ, John still exhorts us today to be like him intimate
50:01friends of Jesus, through an intense Eucharistic life.
50:05This scene needs to be interpreted for a moment, because Charles said that Saint John was the favourite disciple, but not the favourite in
50:14as such.
50:14Favorite why? Because he had come closer than the others to the heart, to the seat, to the symbol, to the seat of love of
50:20Christ.
50:21And beloved, he said, is not only Saint John, but we can be too, because we too have the possibility
50:28to rest our heads on the heart of Jesus.
50:34Carlo said that the sacrifice of the cross, which took place two thousand years ago, is presented in an incorrupt manner in all the masses.
50:42which are celebrated every day.
50:44Like John, we too can join in that same sacrifice of the cross and thus demonstrate our love for God,
50:52attending Mass every day.
51:00When Facebook arrived, because it arrived a few years after Carlo was no longer there, I
51:07I thought about making a group for Carlo's friends.
51:12Incredibly, in just a couple of years, this page has reached many people around the world.
51:19But little by little I began receiving phone calls from groups who wanted to come to this church to remember Carlo.
51:30So I said to myself, there's a sign here, something has managed to get through in the information.
51:41His peers immediately wrote short, simple biographies of Carlo and I feel that this figure is spontaneously
51:52his peers become attached.
51:54Putting into practice what he did, just as he did things, is not an impossible thing.
51:59And this is the difficulty we have every day, to always be good, to always be kind, to always be altruistic.
52:06This is a seemingly simple thing, but in reality very difficult to do.
52:11But he was something that left me and the fact that it can actually be done is not
52:15something unattainable.
52:17And this is actually the best memory I have of him, it's what he actually left inside me.
52:22He says do not be discouraged because, like many others who have preceded us, we too can get to where Saint John got to,
52:29where our holy friends have arrived.
52:31Here, this great confidence in instilling in the kids by telling them that in whatever situation you have, in whatever problem you find yourself in, there
52:41There's always someone who will help you solve it.
52:44Carlo Triste? I don't remember him like that now.
52:48Well, we were together, that was enough to be happy at that moment.
52:54I remember that he used to have them all the time, because Carlo was always making jokes, I mean, he was very witty.
53:02I had a lot of fun, but I only saw him, I mean we only see each other during the holidays or in the summer.
53:10We were together for a few days, although to tell the truth I would have liked to spend more time with him.
53:15After his death, the parents were able to conceive twins.
53:26I don't know what sign this is, but I know it's a sign.
53:35The void he left in the house was probably filled with a grace, the first grace granted.
53:47I can't add anything else, but this struck me.
53:52He truly fulfilled himself as a Christian.
53:56This is the great reality of this boy who is still able to speak to us.
54:01He is able to speak to us because he was capable of making a sacrifice,
54:05he was able to recognize in his life the presence of someone who was guiding him.
54:11The unspeakable message that grace is there is work and gives you signals for which you remain silent,
54:26repeated and grateful.
54:30This is what I have inside me when I think of home.
54:39There is no hexene, but it is a hexene, but it is a hexene, but it is a hexene.
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