Carlo Acutis on Pursuing Purity & Bringing Others With You, by Antonia Salzano and Andrea Acutis

I remember an event from that last summer we spent in Santa Margherita Ligure. After dinner, while Carlo was finishing his summer vacation homework, we received a phone call. It was one of his female friends. Carlo, wanting to be discreet and not disturb me [Antonia] as I worked, stepped aside. But despite this, I could hear his words clearly. So, without wanting to, I overheard him. I had never eavesdropped on other people’s conversations. And I’m not a nosy mother. But that evening, overhearing what he said was unavoidable.

I was immediately struck by the way in which Carlo addressed his friend: he reprimanded her in a very paternal way but also with firmness and self-assurance. And then I was also struck by the content: as far as I could understand, the previous evening his friend had met a boy at a disco and had had intimate relations with him. …

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