Monday, Week 28 of Ordinary Time
St. Carlo Acutis
Oct.
12, 2026
Luke 11: 29-32
Provincial House QDOR
The Pharisees disputing with Jesus
(James Tissot)
“This
is an evil generation; it seeks a sign, but no sign will be given it except the
sign of Jonah” (Luke 11: 29).
In
fact, the Lord had given signs. St. John
even calls his major miracles “signs.”
Jesus chided his opponents, who could read the weather, for not
recognizing the signs of the new age, God breaking into our history.
Jonah
preached repentance to Nineveh. Jesus
preached repentance in Galilee, Judea, and even Samaria; that was the 1st sign
of Jonah. The 2d was Jesus’ coming out
of his tomb on the 3d day, resembling Jonah’s emergence from the great fish.
Jonah & the Great Fish
(Pieter Lastman)
Altho
Jesus said no sign would be given except the sign of Jonah, he did leave 2
great signs of his love: the cross and
the Eucharist. Rightly do we speak of
and make the sign of the cross when we begin and conclude our prayers and when
we bless ourselves with holy water. So
we profess our faith that we have been redeemed.
In
the Eucharist, Christ’s love remains among us, both a physical and a mystical
presence. We remember Carlo Acutis
today, who centered his life on the Eucharist even as he lived like any other
teen in his daily interests and activities.
We note his fascination with Eucharistic miracles—signs of Christ’s real
presence in the sacramental bread—and Carlo’s love for making these known, for
the glory of his Lord and as a practical sign of his own devotion to the Lord.
We
aspire to be signs and bearers of God’s love for the young and the
disadvantaged (of any age) (Const. 2).
Are we not, then, signs given by Christ to them? signs pointing to his compassion toward all
who repent, signs of the universal love of the Good Shepherd?
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