On Blessed Carlo Acutis’ feast day, parishioners urged to model his faithfulness
October 13, 2024 at 2:20 p.m.
The sacred life that Blessed Carlo Acutis dedicated to God and the Holy Eucharist was commemorated on his Oct. 12 feast day by the faith community of St. Dominic, Brick.
“This blessed boy…had a special relationship with God based on the love for the Eucharist,” said Bishop Krzysztof Jozef Nykiel, regent of the Apostolic Penitentiary in Vatican City, who was invited to celebrate the parish’s regularly scheduled 4 p.m. Saturday evening Mass.
PHOTO GALLERY: Blessed Carlo Acutis' feast day Mass
Blessed Carlo often said that the Eucharist was his ‘”highway to heaven,” Bishop Nykiel, said.
“Likewise, Blessed Carlo often repeated ‘if you receive the Eucharist every day, you go straight to paradise’…Jesus was to him a friend, a teacher, a saint.”
Bishop Nykiel was joined at the altar by St. Dominic Parish parochial vicars Father Joseph Gnarackatt and Father Marian Kokorzycki. Father Brian Patrick Woodrow, pastor, welcomed Bishop Nykiel, on behalf of Bishop David M. O’Connell, C.M. Father Woodrow also presented a gift of an icon of Blessed Carlo to Bishop Nykiel. The icon was written by iconographer Kristina Sadley, a member of St. Gregory the Great Parish, Hamilton Square.
More to come on this story.
Father Brian Woodrow presents the icon of Blessed Carlo Acutis to Bishop Krzysztof Jozef Nykiel, regent of the Apostolic Penitentiary in Vatican City, The icon was written by Kristina Sadley, a parishioner of St. Gregory the Great Parish, Hamilton Square. Mike Ehrmann photo
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The sacred life that Blessed Carlo Acutis dedicated to God and the Holy Eucharist was commemorated on his Oct. 12 feast day by the faith community of St. Dominic, Brick.
“This blessed boy…had a special relationship with God based on the love for the Eucharist,” said Bishop Krzysztof Jozef Nykiel, regent of the Apostolic Penitentiary in Vatican City, who was invited to celebrate the parish’s regularly scheduled 4 p.m. Saturday evening Mass.
PHOTO GALLERY: Blessed Carlo Acutis' feast day Mass
Blessed Carlo often said that the Eucharist was his ‘”highway to heaven,” Bishop Nykiel, said.
“Likewise, Blessed Carlo often repeated ‘if you receive the Eucharist every day, you go straight to paradise’…Jesus was to him a friend, a teacher, a saint.”
Bishop Nykiel was joined at the altar by St. Dominic Parish parochial vicars Father Joseph Gnarackatt and Father Marian Kokorzycki. Father Brian Patrick Woodrow, pastor, welcomed Bishop Nykiel, on behalf of Bishop David M. O’Connell, C.M. Father Woodrow also presented a gift of an icon of Blessed Carlo to Bishop Nykiel. The icon was written by iconographer Kristina Sadley, a member of St. Gregory the Great Parish, Hamilton Square.
More to come on this story.
Father Brian Woodrow presents the icon of Blessed Carlo Acutis to Bishop Krzysztof Jozef Nykiel, regent of the Apostolic Penitentiary in Vatican City, The icon was written by Kristina Sadley, a parishioner of St. Gregory the Great Parish, Hamilton Square. Mike Ehrmann photo