NEWSLETTER INSERTS - ON SAINTS CARLO ACUTIS AND PIER GIORGIO FRASSATI

‘Carlo Acutis was well aware that the whole apparatus of communications, advertising and social networking 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. Yet he knew how to use the new communications technology to transmit the Gospel, to communicate values and beauty’

Pope Francis, Christ is Alive, 105.

‘Happiness is looking towards God. Sadness is looking towards yourself’.

St Carlo Acutis

‘All people are born as originals but many die as photocopies’.

St Carlo Acutis

‘Money is only ragged paper…what counts in life is the nobility of the soul, that is, the way that one loves God and loves one’s neighbour.

St Carlo Acutis

‘Why do people worry so much about their physical beauty but don’t worry about the beauty of their souls?’

St Carlo Acutis

‘True happiness does not consist in the pleasures of this world, or in earthly things, but in peace of conscience, which we only have if we are pure of heart and mind’.

St Pier Giorgio Frassati

‘Every day that passes, I fall more desperately in love with the mountains… I am ever more determined to climb the mountains, to scale the mighty peaks, to feel that pure joy which can only be felt in the mountains’.

St Pier Giorgio Frassati

‘Every day, my love for the mountains grows more and more. If my studies permitted, I’d spend whole days in the mountains contemplating the Creator’s greatness in that pure air’.

St Pier Giorgio Frassati

‘Foolish is he who follows the pleasures of this world, because these are always fleeting and bring much pain. The only true pleasure is that which comes to us through faith’.

St Pier Giorgio Frassati

‘A Catholic cannot help but be happy; sadness should be banished from their souls. Suffering is not sadness, which is the worst disease. This disease is almost always caused by atheism, but the end for which we are created guides us along life’s pathway, which may be strewn with thorns, but is not sad. It is happy even through suffering’.

St Pier Giorgio Frassati