Andrea Acutis > Quotes

“Humility and simplicity are two virtues that allow the seed to leave the earth, to develop, and to become a head of wheat. This wheat becomes flour; the flour becomes bread; and the bread becomes the species or appearance needed for the Holy Eucharist. When Jesus speaks of a grain of wheat, He is thinking of Himself as the consecrated, transubstantiated Bread. And He is thinking of us as the people who live on this Bread and exist in this Bread and by means of this Bread are brought to Eternity. So we ask Jesus: O God, make me a productive, efficient, efficacious grain of wheat. Jesus, make me a grain of wheat so that I can attain your eucharistic reality, of which I truly and really live. Along the same lines, there is another aspect of his program of conversion: the struggle against self-love, against pride, and on the positive side, the cultivation of humility. He was convinced that his Guardian Angel had suggested this beautiful phrase to him: “Not self-love, but the glory of God.” The human ego, the ego closed in on itself, is the basis of pride and therefore the radical principle of every sin. Personal pride”
― Andrea Acutis, God's Influencer: Holy Advice from St. Carlo Acutis

“the development of this grain of wheat. To foster this development to allow the grain to become a whole head of wheat, we need to practice two virtues: humility and simplicity.”
― Andrea Acutis, God's Influencer: Holy Advice from St. Carlo Acutis

“He is truly present; it is not an invention. He is there. If everyone could only realize this, they would run to Him. If everyone would believe in this truth, how it would change their lives.”
― Andrea Acutis, God's Influencer: Holy Advice from St. Carlo Acutis

“THE WRATH OF GOD is a very frequent image in Sacred Scripture (cf. Exod. 15:8, 32:10; Num. 12:9; Ps. 2:5, 12; Rom. 1:18; Eph. 2:3, just to quote a few examples).”
― Andrea Acutis, God's Influencer: Holy Advice from St. Carlo Acutis

“A few days after the death of Sr. Lucia in 2005, Carlo encountered her in a dream; she confided to him that through the practice of the First Five Saturdays, every believer could change the destiny of the world.”
― Andrea Acutis, God's Influencer: Holy Advice from St. Carlo Acutis

“Each of us needs to conform himself to Communion. Namely, we must make a daily effort to improve ourselves. How? Removing one defect after another and acquiring one virtue after another. The entire secret lies in this. If over 951 years have passed since the Schism of the East, and over 488 years since the Protestant rebellion, this has happened because men sought to study too much theology and too much history, but have not sought to become saints.”
― Andrea Acutis, God's Influencer: Holy Advice from St. Carlo Acutis

“As Pope Francis says in the encyclical Laudato si’, “The Lord, in the culmination of the mystery of the Incarnation, chose to reach our intimate depths through a fragment of matter. He comes not from above, but from within; he comes that we might find him in this world of ours. In the Eucharist, fullness is already achieved.”1 From the very beginning, humanity has been gathered into one and directed toward the Eucharist. Sin interrupted, but did not destroy, the eucharistic plan of God. Throughout all the universe, order and harmony and all that exists have the Eucharist as their point of convergence. The dimensions of the Eucharist are cosmic, and all the extraordinary richness and variety of the universe cannot be comprehended without reference to the Eucharist. Every family that lives on the Eucharist and is nourished by it symbolically adopts Jesus and takes Him to live in its own home; the Eucharist becomes the highway to Heaven for that family. The Eucharist reveals and perfects the meaning of life. Yes, it is a mystery of faith, but it is also the reason behind faith, the marvelous setting of faith, the synthesis of faith, hope, and love. It might seem strange, but the Eucharist does not have a specific place; if it did, it would always be something partial and limited. If the Eucharist were localized as normal physical realities are, it would occupy only a specific space, in a specific container. The Eucharist transcends the limits of place because it is Life, and for this reason its place is everywhere; it is all. In the whole of reality, the Eucharist finds room to deploy its fullness of being and vitality. I’m talking about the whole of reality as we behold it. Namely, in its documentable and discoverable extension, but likewise in its mysteriousness, which also has to be considered. The Eucharist exercises its reign — which is not dominance — in all this. Its natural habitat is Life.”
― Andrea Acutis, God's Influencer: Holy Advice from St. Carlo Acutis

“Jesus could easily have brought to fulfillment His redeeming work in a painless manner. He did not lack means and systems and methods suitable for attaining the goal of salvation without having to turn to suffering. But no. He chose Calvary. He chose the Cross, humiliation, the Passion.”
― Andrea Acutis, God's Influencer: Holy Advice from St. Carlo Acutis

“How did Carlo develop such a Christian sense of pain and suffering? PROBABLY THROUGH READING THE lives of the saints and their writings. For example, he knew the teaching of St. Ignatius of Loyola: “If God sends you many afflictions, it is a sign that He has great plans for you, and surely wants to make you a saint.”
― Andrea Acutis, God's Influencer: Holy Advice from St. Carlo Acutis

“Humility is truth; humility is reality; humility does not consist in despising ourselves but in feeling ourselves below God. God and then us. Humility derives from the Latin word humus, which means earth. So the humble one is the one who comes from the earth, who is lowly and keeps a low profile. If we consider ourselves below God, we have found the proper proportion. And in proportion, we are humble. Humility makes us stay in our place. And it invites us and leads us to invigorate our resources and not spurn them, resources that we must cultivate for the glory of God.”
― Andrea Acutis, God's Influencer: Holy Advice from St. Carlo Acutis

“In the tabernacle, the Most Holy Trinity is at work. I see the tabernacle as something dynamic. The eucharistic reality is the proof, confirmation, and verification of being destined to holiness. Holiness that is attained through fidelity to the Eucharist and the heroic practice of the seven virtues: the three theological virtues (faith, hope, and charity), and the four cardinal or moral virtues (prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance). God is our model. Our tools are reason and grace. And grace is given over and over through the sacraments.”
― Andrea Acutis, God's Influencer: Holy Advice from St. Carlo Acutis

“CARLO WAS IN LOVE with this sacrament and spoke about it often. For example, he told us, “The sacraments are not seven, but six plus one. Six give or restore grace. One, the Eucharist, is the fountain of grace. Therefore ‘in’ and ‘with’ and ‘through’ this sacrament, the more one receives it, the more grace is poured into us.”
― Andrea Acutis, God's Influencer: Holy Advice from St. Carlo Acutis

“Thus, simplicity is precisely the art of not being double, of not complicating, but of leaving everything on an open plane, at the disposal of God’s glory and for the good of our brothers.”
― Andrea Acutis, God's Influencer: Holy Advice from St. Carlo Acutis

“Every family ought to be ordered to the Holy Sacrifice: a day without Mass is a day without the sun! We”
― Andrea Acutis, God's Influencer: Holy Advice from St. Carlo Acutis

“The Eucharist is the center of the ages. The hours of the day revolve around it, and time is baptized and confirmed thanks to it.”
― Andrea Acutis, God's Influencer: Holy Advice from St. Carlo Acutis

“way in the consecrated bread and wine. It guides men to receive Him in their families, to allow Him to be born in their hearts. The Virgin Mary “wrapped him in swaddling cloths” (Luke 2:7) as soon as He was born. Her maternity immediately expressed itself in caring for Him, protecting Him from the cold. That gesture encourages us, too, to care for the Child-God and for our children as well.”
― Andrea Acutis, God's Influencer: Holy Advice from St. Carlo Acutis

“Carlo’s predilection for the Rosary grew even more after our first pilgrimage to Fatima. In the apparition on August 19, 1917, Mary invited the three young visionaries to pray and offer sacrifices: “Pray, pray very much, and make sacrifices for sinners; for many souls go to hell, because there are none to sacrifice themselves and to pray for them.”
― Andrea Acutis, God's Influencer: Holy Advice from St. Carlo Acutis

“How did Carlo develop such a Christian sense of pain and suffering? PROBABLY THROUGH READING THE lives of the saints and their writings. For example, he knew the teaching of St. Ignatius of Loyola: “If God sends you many afflictions, it is a sign that He has great plans for you, and surely wants to make you a saint.” 8 He was familiar with the popular story of St. Teresa of Avila who, as she was returning to her convent, was overtaken suddenly by a storm, tumbled off her horse and fell in the mud. With profound irony, she then turned to Jesus, saying, “If this is how you treat your friends, it is no wonder you have so few!”
― Andrea Acutis, God's Influencer: Holy Advice from St. Carlo Acutis

“Psalm 51, the Miserere: “Wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.”
― Andrea Acutis, God's Influencer: Holy Advice from St. Carlo Acutis

“The Eucharist has the sacred right of recognition. It must be spoken of.”
― Andrea Acutis, God's Influencer: Holy Advice from St. Carlo Acutis

“The tempter puts us to the test in this matter where we might be weak. We must not be afraid, but only flee from him with resolve. Without the consent of our will, the tempter can do nothing against us. Through pornography and sins of impurity,”
― Andrea Acutis, God's Influencer: Holy Advice from St. Carlo Acutis