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For those of you who don’t like using paint, paper, or crafts overall, we’ve created instructions for a Lego version of Carlo Acutis, based on their popular line Brickheadz. This design captures a minimalistic version of the soon-to-be Saint using fewer than 200 individual parts. 2. Use two 4×4 square plates for the bottom of…
UPDATED! To celebrate Blessed Saint Carlo Acutis’s canonization and inspire our kids, we’ve made a family-friendly Carlo Acutis novena with prayers for healing and requests for his intercession. (Note: The one pictured will still show Bl. Carlo.) As we race toward December and all of the fasting and feasting it holds, the month of October…
It’s that time of year again! The liturgical calendar is chock full of Memorials and Feast Days for some of the world’s favorite Saints. And this year, there will be new Saints added on October 10, 2024, to the already 10,000 dearly departed we’re sure made it to heaven. Then, sometime in 2025, yet more…
I can’t remember learning about Carlo, the millennial to-be saint, for the first time. When he was just a baby, I took my now approaching four year old son to view a relic of Carlo at my neighborhood parish. We waited in line for what seemed like a pilgrimage in its on rite. There were…
In honor of Blessed Carlo Acutis’ Feast Day on October 12 – and all those paper laptops my girls have crafted over the years for themselves or their baby dolls – we’ve put together an impossibly simple paper computer craft for your kids to enjoy. Complete with keyboard, “stickers” that represent some of Carlo’s interests,…
Blessed Carlo Acutis was born on May 13, 1992 in London, England. Soon after, his family moved to Milan, Italy. He attended various Catholic schools, and had private tutors. He was an only child, but was extremely close to a cousin about his age who lived nearby. For the most part, Carlo could have been…
It’s fitting that the Lord would raise up a Saint, in His Divine providence, that would show us the way to him in the midst of our internet-crazed world. For Carlos Acutis, an Italian youth growing up in the 90’s and early 2000’s, computer science became a means to loving the Lord and his neighbor….
This year with all this looming marketing of ‘spooky season,‘ I felt stuck on this question more so than ever. How do we keep our focus on the mystery of faith this All Souls Day? The Lord provided me with an unlikely history lesson to help me untangle my spiritual dilemma that took me back…
Umm . . . what are Saint Pumpkins? Too many years ago to count, I had an idea inspired by a Catholic school project my niece and nephew had. In my house, my ideas turn into giant projects – just ask my very patient and loving husband. My idea was to have the kids in…
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