“Do not let your hearts be troubled. You have faith in God; have faith also in me” (Jn 14:1) – Drawing on that day’s Gospel reading, the Holy Father’s ambassador to Hungary spoke about how Jesus calls us not to focus solely on ourselves amid all that is happening to us and around us. 

At the end of the Mass, the relic placed next to the church entrance was unveiled. “Intercede for us before the Lord, that we may recognize our vocation and follow it faithfully, and that we may use the world entrusted to us—especially the digital realm—wisely, purely, and for the good of others,” asked Levente Harai, SJ, socius of the Hungarian Jesuits, invoking the intercession of St. Carlo Acutis.

After Mass, the Vatican diplomat visited the large hall of the Christ King Parish for an event organized by the church community called After8, where he spoke with more than a hundred young people between the ages of 18 and 25 about the importance of prayer, the challenges and hopes of young people, and the role of women in the global Church: 

The Hungarian Jesuit Province is beginning construction of a retreat house and community space on the shores of Lake István in Nyék, near Miskolc, primarily for the students of the Fényi Gyula Jesuit High School in Miskolc. The house’s patron saint will be Carlo Acutis.

Born to Italian parents in London, England, in 1991, Carlo Acutis was a web designer who died from leukemia at the age of 15 in Monza, Italy. He was known for his devotion to Eucharistic miracles and Marian apparitions, which he catalogued on a website he designed.

According to the documents of the canonisation process ending in 2025, Carlo was “welcoming and caring towards the poorest, and he helped the homeless, the needy, and immigrants with the money he saved from his weekly allowance”. He became the first Saint from Generation Y, those born between 1981 and 1996 commonly known as millennials.