Fifteen-year-old Carlo Utcutis, a member of the Millennial Pay Generation, will be equipped at the ACC on Saturday. A brief biography tells how his passion for Eucharist and Internet savvy leaves us with a tangible connection to it.
By Angela Mangis Plec Lake
He was only 15 years old when he died in a hospital in Monza, Italy in 2006, leaving all suffering for the church and the pope.
Carlo ut Cutis, being beaten in the ACC on Saturday. He was a normal, generous and popular boy. A natural joke that made her classmates and teachers enjoy laughing.
He loved playing soccer, video games, and had good teeth. Couldn’t say “no” to Carlo Nutella or ice cream. Losing weight made him realize the need for self-control. It was one of the many struggles that Carlo overcame – to learn how to master the art of self-control, mastering the virtue of endurance, starting with simple things. He would say, “What’s the point of winning 1,000 battles if you can’t beat your own passion?”
“Being original and not photocopying”
Carlo’s motto reflects the life of an ordinary teenager who tried to be his best version, living the ordinary in an extraordinary way. He used his first savings to buy a sleeping bag for the homeless man which he saw repeatedly on the way to Mass. He could buy another video game for his game console collection. He loved playing video games. Instead, he chose to be generous. This was not an example of loneliness. At his funeral there were many poor residents of the city that Carlo helped, showing that the generosity he had given to the homeless man on the way to Mass was also offered to many others.
When she was given a diary gift, she decided to use it to track her progress: “good marks” if she didn’t meet expectations and “bad marks” if she behaved well. In this way he tracked his progress. In the same notebook he wrote below, “Sadness is looking at itself, happiness is looking at God. Transformation is nothing but the movement of the eyes. ”
Natural joke
It was a “natural joke” as his mother Antonia Salzano once commented in an interview. His classmates burst into laughter at his remarks, and so did the teachers. He realized that he could annoy and disturb others, so he also tried to change the context. Making life pleasant for those around him through small works was a constant in his life. He did not like to be paid by the cleaners. So he set the alarm clock a few minutes ago to tidy up his room and make the bed. The Hindu rajas who cleaned Carlo’s house were impressed that someone decided to live a simple life “as generous, young and rich”. Rye decided to be baptized in the local church.
Hygiene
Purity was very important in Carlo’s life. “Everyone reflects the light of God”, it was something he usually said. He was hurt when his classmates did not live up to Christian morality. It will encourage them to do so, to help them understand that the human body is a gift from God and that sexuality is according to God’s will. “The pride of every human being was so great that Carlo saw sexuality as something special, as he was collaborating with God’s creation,” his mother recalled.
Our new Blessed also had fun putting on his diving goggles and playing “throwing rubbish from the bottom of the ocean.” When he took the dog for a walk, he always picked up whatever garbage came across. It was his way of improving his corner of the world.
Enthusiasm for the Eucharist
Carlo’s true passion was the Eucharist: “His highway to heaven”. This led to his mother’s conversion. A woman who had just “gone to Mass three times in her life” was eventually won over by the boy’s love for Jesus. He enrolled himself in a course in theology so that he could answer all of his youngest son’s questions.
At the age of 11, Carlo began exploring Eucharistic miracles in history. He used all his computer knowledge and talents to create a website that explored history. It contains 160 panels and can be downloaded by clicking here and has also created spheres of more than 10,000 parishes around the world.
Carlo could not understand why the stadium was full of people and the church was empty. He would often say, “They have to see, they have to understand.”
Early death
In the summer of 2006, Carlo asked his mother: “Do you think I should become a priest?” She replied: “You will see it for yourself, God will reveal it to you.” That wasn’t okay at the beginning of the school year. It looked like the common flu. But when his health did not improve, his parents took him to the hospital. “When I went inside the building, he said, ‘I’m not getting out of here. “
Shortly afterwards, he was diagnosed with one of the worst types of leukemia – acute myeloid leukemia (AML or M3). His reaction was shocking:
“I give God that suffering I have to go through for the pope and for the church, so that I don’t have to live in paradise and go straight to heaven.”
He died shortly afterwards.
“He is a priest from heaven,” says his mother.
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