In rural Limerick, three teenage brothers are turning Lego into a tool for evangelization as Blessed Carlo Acutis continues to inspire a new generation of digital evangelists.
In the small rural parish of Kilcornan in Irish Limerick County, the boys have produced a professional and instructive stop-motion animation film about the millennial saint.
“We wanted to reach people of our own age,” 16-year-old Louis Flynn explained to OSV News. “Carlo really inspired all three of us. He was a normal teenager who loved football and video games, but he also had a profound love for the Eucharist. He lived in the same kind of world as we do — surrounded by technology. Everybody uses it, but not everyone is using it in the way that God wants us to use it. Carlo used it to glorify God. That really resonated.”
Completed films are broadcast on their YouTube channel — Fiontar Floinn — which is Irish for Flynn Enterprises. They have made five saint animations so far, including one on St. Patrick, Ireland’s national patron saint, and another on Our Lady of Guadalupe. “‘The Incredible Life of Carlo Acutis’ is our most detailed yet.” The five-minute video was crafted over several months. It impresses not just for its technical excellence but also for its evangelizing message.
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Sarah Mac Donald writes for OSV News from Dublin.
With thanks to OSV News, where this article originally appeared.
