Hey, everybody. Welcome back to another episode of the Catholic talk show. Today we're going to be talking about Blessed Carlo Accutis.

That's right. We're going to be talking about this youthful next saint and we're lucky to be joined by Daria Mobini, who's the director of World Youth Day.com,

and show how this saint can be a model for young people

in today's world.

Let's get started. And then. All right, we got a great show for you guys today, a very, very powerful young

saint, a model for a lot of our youth today. We're going to be going through

John Paul II's Vision for Young People in World Youth Day, Blessed Carlo's

story, which is so powerful. And hopefully we'll come away with a lot of hope for our youth today. And Dario, welcome. and

dario welcome. We appreciate joining us. Yeah, thanks so much for having me. I love to be here.

You know, Blessed Carlo really is, you know, typically when you think of the Catholic saint, you think of these mystical distant figures climbing a mountain in a tattered old brown habit and having these grand mystical experiences of bringing

down fire from, you know, the skies to smite the heathens. But what's it Carlo?

It was a guy like, you know, probably you've met a million times.

He was a nice normal kid. He loved video games. He loved going to school.

He had friends.

He was a normal kid.

But underneath all that, he had a profound faith.

And a profound faith, particularly in the Eucharist and in the Saints.

And I think his example is a model forward

for what kids today, younger people can be an experience in this world while still having a saintly character.

So, Dario, can you tell us a little bit of the background about Blessed Carlo and what makes him so special and so unique?

Yeah, I mean, goodness, I mean, it was just,

Blessed Carlo was only introduced to us maybe no more than six years ago, Right during the Synod on the youth

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