PERHAPS NOT EVEN THE VIRGIN MARY DID MOURN THE DEATH OF HER SON, CARLO ACUTIS' MOTHER MAY HAVE SUCCEEDED?

Carlo Acutis' mother goes around giving lectures on her holy son who died in 15 years in 2006 for fulminant leukemia. We are at tragicomedy? Of course not, we are only at the understandable tragedy of a mother who has chosen an unusual way to try to process her son's mourning.

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I owe eternal gratitude to my two main trainers: Peter Gumpel S.J. (Hannover 1923 – †Roma, 2022) e Paolo Molinari, S.J (Torino 1924 – †Roma 2014) who for half a century directed the general postulation of the Society of Jesus and who also instructed me in the postulation of the causes of the Saints. We are not talking about remote times, but from an era in which the so-called "vamp postulators" with degrees were not yet in fashion of both rights at the Pontifical Lateran University, who change companions in the same way they change clothes designer labels and which together with the “manager postulators", also lay people, they are capable of extracting mind-boggling sums from the nuns of some congregation in agony, but endowed with considerable assets, who are unaware that they are now at the entrance door of the cremation centre, which will soon entrust their ashes to history, at all costs they want the founder to be blessed or saintly.

I was on the unforgettable third floor of the general curia of the Society of Jesus, at the civic 4 of Borgo Santo Spirito, where I believe I made some of the most fundamental decisions of my life, starting from the most important: become a priest. It was the month of September of the year 2011, I was helping Father Peter Gumpel in some work related to certain documents of the cause of beatification of Pius XII, when during a break he told me that various experts had great reservations regarding the beatification, then to follow for the canonization of Maria Goretti, because direct family members were always alive: brothers and sisters, but above all his mother Assunta. Father Peter told me this way:

«Although the matter is not known, before proceeding with the beatification, occurred 45 years after the death of the martyr - not six years later as is done today with the Roman Pontiffs -, was asked of the mother, to the brothers and sisters the promise that they would lead a private life and would never tell stories or make public testimonies about their daughter and sister, because the Church had taken care to say what there was to say and if anything had been necessary to add or integrate, the Church itself would always have provided".

Mother Assunta, with the brothers and sisters of the Goretti family, they complied with what was requested by the Ecclesiastical Authority and none: journalist, writer, scholar or simply curious has never gleaned a word from them beyond what the Church has told about the story of the teenage martyr.

The mother of Carlo Acutis he goes around giving lectures on the dead holy son a 15 years in 2006 for fulminant leukemia, without any Ecclesiastical Authority having invited her to exercise maximum discretion, quite the opposite, they stimulate her in this sense! We are at tragicomedy? Of course not, we are only at the understandable tragedy of a mother who has chosen an unusual way to try to process her son's mourning; a mourning that can never be processed, especially from a mother, so unnatural is the loss of a child for parents.

Proof of what has just been stated it is imprinted in the vocabulary: a child who loses his parents is an orphan, a wife who loses a husband is a widow, a husband who loses his wife is a widower. A parent who instead loses a child, what is it, with what term is it defined? There isn't even a term in the dictionary to define a parent who loses a child, with all due respect to the currents of certain wild psychology that speak of the mourning process for the death of a child.

Maybe, perhaps not even the Blessed Virgin Mary mourned the death of his son. Including divine plans, she acquired the awareness - we do not know when and through what gradual process over time - that the son she brought into the world was the incarnate Word of God "begotten not created of the same substance as the Father", who offered himself as a sacrificed lamb to wash away the sins of the world.

However, processing the mourning of the child is something else, even for the Blessed Virgin Mary, who despite being the mother of the incarnate God who died and rose again, even though she was born without original sin and assumed into heaven after having fallen asleep, he was still a created creature, was human, not divine. Just as a created creature she is the mother of San Carlo Acutis, which is not the Immaculate Conception.

 

the Island of Patmos, 7 December 2024

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