Episode Seventeen: Carlo Acutis
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🗓️ 9 March 2026
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🗺️ Lent with the Saints - Episode Seventeen: Carlo Acutis
In this episode, Kiley explains the meaning of penance and fasting and we'll listen to the story of Carlo Acutis.
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| 0:00.0 | Lent with the Saints. |
| 0:30.5 | I'm Kylie from the Mary Beggers. |
| 0:32.9 | On this Monday in the third week of Lent, I want to tell you about penance and fasting through |
| 0:38.3 | the story of a saint we've talked about before, Carlo Acudis. |
| 0:43.3 | Have you heard people talk about giving up things for Lent? |
| 0:47.0 | Maybe your mother is giving up chocolate or your big brother is giving up TV. |
| 0:51.6 | These are examples of fasting. Do you know why people fast and give things up in Lent? |
| 0:58.6 | We fast so we can have more room in our heart to love Jesus and our family and friends. |
| 1:04.2 | When we give things up or deny ourselves some things we like out of love for Jesus and others, |
| 1:09.5 | we are practicing a kind of penance. |
| 1:12.6 | Can you say that word? Penance. It comes from the Latin word for being sorry, and that tells us |
| 1:19.9 | what it means. When we're sorry for something, we do penances to make things right again. |
| 1:25.6 | If you break something that doesn't belong to you, you probably |
| 1:28.7 | apologize to the person who owned it and maybe even offered to replace it. That's a kind of penance. |
| 1:34.7 | It shows another person that you are sorry and want to be friends with them again. We usually |
| 1:39.8 | talk about doing penance for the sins we committed against God and others. We can do penance for sins by saying prayers, giving things up, or doing acts of service. |
| 1:50.0 | By prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. |
| 1:54.0 | Of course, we can't make our sin disappear by doing penance. |
| 1:58.0 | We need Jesus' mercy. |
| 2:00.0 | We need His forgiveness and his love and strength |
| 2:03.0 | so we can become better friends to Jesus and to others. Penance is a chance to work on that |
| 2:08.9 | friendship and stay close to Jesus. Do you remember when we spoke about St. Carlo Acutus, the Italian boy who loves soccer and video games? |
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