Thank You

Ask, Seek, Knock

Thank you for praying our Novena for the Canonization of Blessed Carlo Acutis, and for the healing of Amelia. One more time, let’s pray the Prayer for the Canonisation of Blessed Carlo Acutis—

Oh God, Our Father, thank you for giving us Carlo, a life example for the young and a message of love for everyone.

You made him become enamored with Your Son Jesus, Making of the Eucharist his “Highway to Heaven”. You gave him Mary, as a most loving Mother, and, with the Rosary, you made him a poet of her tenderness. Receive his prayer for us.

Above all, gaze upon the poor, whom he loved and helped. Grant for me too, by his intercession, the grace that we need, that Amelia be cured of her metachromatic leukodystrophy.

And make our joy fulfilled, placing Carlo among the Saints of your Church, so that his smile may shine again for us in the glory of your name.

​Amen

Our Father…

Hail Mary…

Glory Be…

I’m writing this the night before you read it on Carlo’s Feast Day. Right now, I don’t know if his intercession has been effective in the way we’re hoping for. Either way, please do continue praying for Amelia. Even if we’re disappointed, our only option is to persist in faith. To paraphrase St. Peter, where else are we going to go?

Saint Cyprian of Antioch wrote the following prayer, quoting today’s Gospel reading—

I beg you, Son of the living God, you have worked so many miracles. You changed water into wine at Cana to enlighten Israel. You healed the eyes of the blind; you restored hearing to deaf ears and movement to paralyzed limbs. You corrected the stammering tongue, freed the possessed, made the lame run like the deer, raised up the dead, and taking him by the hand you made Peter walk upon the water, safe from sinking.

You have left us this saying: Ask and you will receive, knock and it will be opened to you. All that you ask of the Father, in my name, I too will ask of my Father, that you may have it. I ask that I may receive, seek that I may find, knock that it may be opened to me. I ask in your name that you will ask your Father and he will hear me. I am ready to pour out my blood as a victim for your name’s sake, to bear any torment. You, Lord, are the one who hears and protects me; defend me from the enemy.

May the angel of light protect me, for you have said, What you ask of me with faith in prayer, I will grant. May your Spirit work in me and your will be accomplished in me, that I may be wholly yours, all the days of my life.