CCO at World Youth Day

Blessed Carlo Acutis Centre
Basilica of Our Lady of the Martyrs | Basílica de Nossa Senhora dos Mártires
R. Serpa Pinto 10D, 1200-445 Lisboa, Portugal

Tuesday Aug 1, 2023 – Thursday Aug 3, 2023

The Blessed Carlo Acutis Centre is a place where pilgrims can come to venerate a first class relic of Blessed Carlo Acutis.
It will include an information exhibit about his life. The Centre will also feature times of Eucharistic Adoration, music, and personal prayer. Pilgrims will be able to encounter Jesus in the Eucharist, which was Blessed Carlo’s deep desire.

Pilgrims will be invited to offer a prayer intention through cards which can be left before Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.

Blessed Carlo Acutis was born on May 3, 1991. From a very early age, he showed a great aptitude for computers, a gift he used in his service to others and for the diffusion of contents for Christian formation, such as the exposition of the Eucharistic miracles. In September 2006, the first symptoms of an illness appeared and, upon diagnosis, fulminant leukaemia. With complete confidence, he gave to God the little time he had left. He died on October 12, 2006 and was beatified on October 10, 2020. His feast day is celebrated on October 12. A computer genius, Carlo made his computer an instrument at the service of God and the Internet a way to evangelize, spreading his love for the Holy Eucharist.

Lord our God,
who through the life of Blessed Carlo Acutis,
showed the unfathomable riches of the Eucharist
and made him an example for young people
and a witness of mercy for the poor,
grant us through his intercession to live always united to You
and to recognize You in the brothers and sisters we meet along the way,
rising quickly to meet each one of them.
Through Christ our Lord.
Amen.