""FRANCESCO AND CARLO, SINGERS OF LIFE AND GOODNESS""

ASSISI – "Today, Carlo. He comes to rest in this same place that witnessed Francis's renunciation." This was stated by the bishop of the diocese of Assisi-Nocera Umbra-Gualdo Tadino, Monsignor Domenico Sorrentino, during the burial ceremony for the body of Venerable Carlo Acutis in the Shrine of Renunciation, where he arrived on Saturday, April 6, following a procession that departed from the Cathedral of San Rufino and also stopped at the Basilica of Santa Chiara. Hailed a few days ago by the Pope as an example of holiness in the internet age, he too leaves the young people of our time a secret of new life: the choice of God, which allows no compromise. Complete renunciation.
Done not with grandiose gestures, but in the depths of the heart. This is the meaning of his lapidary slogan: "Not I, but God." The Francis who here stripped himself of everything became God's jester, the singer of the wonders of creation, the universal brother capable of restoring dignity to the poor and reconciliation to a divided society.
Carlo, who rests here today in his mortal remains—Monsignor Sorrentino continued—but continues to care for us in heaven, never renounced the beauty of a life filled with awe at the wonders of nature, even the exhilaration of the most modern information technology. But he infused all of this with the flavor of the Gospel, centering his life on the Eucharist, his highway to heaven. The era in which he lived his brief but luminous earthly journey was that of the internet.
Like many young people of our time, he was a "digital native." The digital world was his way of communicating—not exclusive or fanatical, but certainly passionate.
And he used it to communicate goodness. To point to the wonder of the Eucharist. To build a network of goodness in the world of the web. ... Francis and Carlo, now inextricably united. Together, singers of life and goodness. Together, leaders of young people and witnesses of the Gospel. Truly something new is sprouting on the horizon of a humanity marked by an epochal crisis.

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