October 12: Feast of St. Carlo Acutis: Preaching that Accompanies “Young People on the Road”

On this feast day of the newly canonized saint Carlo Acutis, another young saint-in-the-making named Logan Edwards, 24, asks the Church, how does Catholic preaching connect with young people? His three-part series, “Young People on the Road,” arises from his summer of research at the Institute for Homiletics, working with a thousand transcribed pages of Lilly Endowed young adult conversations.

Using the metaphor of the road to Emmaus, Edwards offers three masterful reflections to aid the Church in its preaching with young adults:

Part One:    Questioning and Listening

Part Two:     Exploration and Accompaniment

Part Three:  Identification and Proclamation

As we focus on youth on this feast day, Pope Leo describes Acutis’ life as an invitation to all of us, especially young people, “not to squander our lives, but to direct them upwards and make them masterpieces”.  This series of articles offers concrete advice to help that to happen.