St. Aloysius Parish

St. Gregory in Danbury will host the Vatican International Exhibit of Eucharistic Miracles created by Bl. Carlo Acutis from Wednesday, April 5 to Sunday, April 9 at 85 Great Plain Rd in Danbury, CT .

Exhibit Hours:
Tue. to Sat. from 9am to 10am
Evening hours:
Tue & Wed. 6pm to 8pm
Thu. & Fri. 4pm to 6pm
Sat. from 6pm to 7:30pm
Sunday from 11am to 12pm
Website: https://www.stgregdanbury.org/event/carnival-2022/

With an extensive assortment of photographs and historical description, the exhibition created by Bl. Carlo, who passed away at the age of 15, presents some of the principal Eucharistic miracles that took place through the ages in various countries of the world. By means of 187 panels, visitors can virtually visit the places where the miracles took place.

“Bl. Carlo Acutis did not strive to become famous, but rather to cooperate with God’s graces as generously as possible,” said Deacon Steven Hodson of St. Francis Parish. “That journey brought him many experiences that were united by a burning desire to serve God and others.”

A first class relic is part of the person’s physical body . Miracles of healing and conversion are often association with veneration of relics.

Carlo Acutis, who was born in England and raised in Italy, was an ordinary teenager with a special love for Jesus. He played soccer, enjoyed computer games and doing practical jokes. He was declared blessed on October 10, 2020 after a miracle in Brazil was attributed to his intercession, and in a short time, he has earned the nicknames of “God’s influencer,” “Cyber- apostle of the Eucharist” and the “First Millennial Saint.”

As an amateur computer programmer, Acutis was able to catalog the miracles before he died, and they can be found on a website he designed—www. miracolieucaristici.org. The website has been translated into 17 languages, including Vietnamese and Swahili.

He died of leukemia in 2006 at 15, and his body was interred at Assisi. It was later exhumed and put in a tomb in the Church of Santa Maria Maggiore in Assisi, where he is dressed in jeans, a track suit jacket and sneakers. His heart, which is considered a relic after his beatification, is in a reliquary in the Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi.

Pope Francis has called Acutis a model of holiness in the digital age and suggested that his use of the computer resembles the efforts of the first disciples who traveled on foot to bring the Good News of Christ to people. He said Acutis is a role model for young people today, who are victims of “self-absorption, isolation and empty pleasure.”

“Carlo was well-aware that the whole apparatus of communications, advertising and social net- working can be used to lull us, to make us addicted to consumerism and buying the latest thing on the market, obsessed with our free time, caught up in negativity,” the pope wrote. “Yet he knew how to use the new communications technology to transmit the Gospel, to communicate values and beauty.” (The above information on the life of Blessed Carlo was taken from a story written by Joe Pisani after interviewing Fran Bifulco of Monroe for the January 2022 Fairfield County Catholic.)

You may go at any day/time that works for your family and claim the amount of time you spend at the church as spiritual work of mercy hour(s)!