Why wait? Then in late 2024, when Pope Francis officially announced the Jubilee year 2026 under the theme pilgrims of hope, everything clicked into place.

The timing Carlo had predicted approximately 20 years after our conversation.

The theme related to hope and pilgrimage, the expanded opportunities for plenary indulgences that Jubilee years always offer.

I realized that every delay, every moment of waiting had been preparation for this exact moment.

But there was one final supernatural sign I needed before I felt complete certainty about sharing this publicly.

I prayed for months.

Lord, if this teaching about the three secrets is truly from you through Carlo, and if this is truly the moment to share it publicly, please give me an unmistakable confirmation.

The confirmation came in January 2025 in a way I could never have anticipated.

I was invited to speak at a conference in Aisi, the city where Carlo was beatified on the topic of blessed Carlo Autis and youth spirituality.

It was a large conference, hundreds of attendees, many bishops and priests, significant media coverage.

I had prepared my usual talk about Carlo’s love for the Eucharist, his digital evangelization, his devotion to Mary.

But the night before the conference, I couldn’t sleep.

I kept feeling an interior pressure.

Tomorrow, share it tomorrow.

The time has come.

I argued back in my prayer, but Lord, this is a conference about youth spirituality, not about purgatory and indulgences.

The topic doesn’t fit.

The response I received in my spirit was clear.

The topic fits perfectly.

Hope is for the young and for the dead.

The jubilee of hope connects both.

Speak.

I spent most of that sleepless night revising my talk, incorporating the complete teaching Carlo had given me about the three secrets of plenary indulgences.

I was terrified.

What if theologians criticized me? What if I created confusion rather than clarity? What if I was wrong about the timing after all? The next morning, I walked to the podium with my revised notes, my hands shaking.

I began with my usual content about Carlo’s life, his conversion at age seven, his passion for documenting eukaristic miracles.

But then I shifted.

There is something else Carlo taught me.

I said something I’ve kept mostly private for 19 years because I was waiting for the right moment to share it fully.

I believe that moment is now as we prepare for the Jubilee year 2026.

The room became very quiet.

Everyone knew I had shared extensively about Carlo over the years.

The fact that I was saying there was something I had held back captured their complete attention.

I took a deep breath and began to share the teaching from our conversation on August 12th, 2006.

I explained how Carlo had predicted there would be a jubilee around 2025 to 2026 with a theme related to hope or pilgrims.

I described how he had explained the three secrets that invalidate most plenary indulgences.

lack of complete freedom from attachment to sin, ignorance of the optimal moment after confession, and misunderstanding of the one per day limit.

I spoke for about 25 minutes giving the complete explanation Carlo had given me including his analogies, his theological precision, his pastoral urgency about ensuring Catholics understood this before the upcoming Jubilee so that millions of souls could potentially be liberated from purgatory.

When I finished, the room was silent for several long seconds.

Then a bishop in the front row stood up.

My heart sank.

I thought he was going to challenge me to question my authority to teach on such technical theological matters.

Instead, he said, “Senor Salzano, what you have just shared is completely orthodox, completely aligned with the church’s teaching on indulgences and desperately needed.

I am a bishop.

I have taught theology in seminary and I have never explained plenary indulgences with the clarity and pastoral urgency you just demonstrated.

Thank you for sharing your son’s gift to the church.

Other voices began to speak up.

A priest said, “I’ve been ordained for 30 years and I’ve never understood why so few people seem to benefit from indulgences.

Now I understand.

We’ve been teaching the formula without teaching the substance.

A theologian said this doesn’t contradict anything in the encaridian of indulgences or the catechism.

It actually illuminates what those documents say with profound pastoral wisdom.

But the confirmation I needed most came from an unexpected source.

After the conference ended, an elderly nun approached me.

She was tiny, bent with age.

But her eyes were bright and clear.

She took my hands in hers and said, “I am 93 years old.

I have been a religious sister for 75 years.

I have spent my entire life trying to gain plenary indulgences for the souls in purgatory because I believe deeply in the communion of saints.

But I never understood why it felt like I was missing something.

Why the practice felt more mechanical than transformative? What you shared today has given me the final piece.

In whatever time I have left, I will practice what your son taught.

Going to confession not just to absolve mortal sins, but to purify all attachments, gaining the indulgence immediately afterward while my soul is in its purest state.

doing this with complete awareness that I can only truly succeed once per day.

Thank you for waiting until the right moment to share this.

Thank you for being faithful to your son’s mission.

I wept as I held that elderly nun’s hands, knowing that this was the confirmation I had prayed for.

This woman who had devoted her entire life to prayer for the souls in purgatory had just received the teaching that would allow her final years to bear maximum fruit.

The Aizi conference in January 2025 was the breakthrough moment.

But the true supernatural climax of this entire story is happening right now in these months leading up to the Jubilee year 2026.

Since that conference, I have received thousands of messages from Catholics around the world who heard my talk or read transcripts of it.

But what’s extraordinary is the pattern in these messages.

They’re not just saying, “Thank you for the information.

” They’re reporting transformations in their spiritual lives.

And specifically, they’re reporting experiences of supernatural confirmation that Carlo’s teaching is authentic and powerful.

A priest from Brazil wrote to me, “After hearing your talk, I changed how I prepare people for indulgences.

I now emphasizes confession as purification of attachments, not just forgiveness of mortal sins.

Last week, a woman came to confession who had been carrying resentment toward her sister for 15 years.

Instead of just absolving her, I helped her understand that resentment is an attachment that would prevent her from gaining a plenary indulgence.

We worked through it together.

She forgave her sister genuinely, not just formally.

Then immediately after confession, she fulfilled the other conditions for a plenary indulgence for her deceased father.

She told me that when she finished praying for the Pope’s intentions, she felt her father’s presence briefly but powerfully, and she knew with complete certainty that he had just been released from purgatory.

She wept with joy.

I wept with her.

This is the most profound confession I have heard in my 20 years as a priest.

A lay woman from the Philippines wrote, “I am a widow.

My husband died 3 years ago.

I have been trying to gain plenary indulgences for his soul, but I always felt like something was missing.

After learning about the three secrets, I realized I had been carrying an attachment to gossip.

I would meet with friends and we would talk about other people’s problems under the guise of prayer intentions.

After your talk, I stopped that practice completely.

I went to confession specifically to be purified of that attachment.

Immediately after, I gained a plenary indulgence for my husband.

That night, I dreamed of him for the first time since his death.

In the dream, he was radiant, joyful, and he said to me, “I am free.

Thank you.

Live without fear now.

” I woke up with a peace I haven’t felt since he died.

These testimonies have been pouring in daily, but the most profound supernatural confirmation came in March 2025 during a pilgrimage I made to the tomb of blessed Carlo in Aisi.

I was praying there alone late in the evening after the church had closed to the public.

I was thanking God for the response to the teaching about plenary indulgences and I was asking for wisdom about how to continue sharing this message effectively during the Jubilee year itself.

Suddenly I felt Carlo’s presence.

Not a vision, not an apparition, but that same unmistakable sense of his specific spiritual presence that I’ve experienced occasionally since his death.

And with that presence came a message, not in words, but in pure understanding, implanted directly into my consciousness.

Mama, what I told you in August 2006 was a seed that needed to wait 19 years to grow.

Now it will bear fruit beyond what you can imagine.

During the Jubilee 2026, if Catholics practice the three secrets faithfully, complete purification from attachments through frequent confession, gaining indulgences immediately after in the moment of greatest purity, understanding the limit of one per day, and making it count, then purgatory will be emptied more dramatically than in any holy year in history.

Not because God’s mercy is greater now than before, but because his people will finally understand how to receive that mercy fully.

This is my final gift to the church.

Not another eukaristic miracle to document, but the key to unlock the treasury of merit that has always been available, but rarely accessed correctly.

Tell them not to waste this opportunity.

Tell them the jubilee of hope should result in the liberation of hope.

Millions of souls freed from purification and entering into the perfect joy of heaven.

I remained in prayer for two more hours after receiving that message.

Overwhelmed by the magnitude of what Carlo had been shown 19 years ago and what is about to unfold during the Jubilee year.

The transformation in my own life since sharing Carlo’s teaching publicly has been profound.

For 19 years, I carried the weight of a mission I didn’t fully understand.

I shared extensively about Carlo’s devotion to the Eucharist, his work on Eucharistic miracles, his love for Mary, and his cheerful holiness.

But there was always this one piece held back.

this one crucial teaching that I knew was meant for a specific moment.

Now that I’ve shared it, now that the moment has arrived, I feel a liberation I can barely describe.

It’s not just relief at finally fulfilling the mission Carlo gave me.

It’s something deeper, a sense of participating in divine providence in a way that transcends my individual story and connects to the universal church’s preparation for an unprecedented outpouring of mercy.

My daily life now includes a new dimension.

In addition to my regular work maintaining Carlo’s website, collaborating with the canonization cause, and speaking about his life, I’ve become a teacher of the practice of gaining plenary indulgences correctly.

I’ve worked with theologians and canonists to develop simple but precise materials that explain the three secrets in ways that are both theologically accurate and pastorally accessible.

I conduct workshops where I walk people through the process.

How to examine your conscience not just for mortal sins but for attachments to venial sins.

How to bring those attachments specifically to confession.

How to receive absolution with the intention of being completely freed from all disordered affections.

How to immediately fulfill the other conditions.

Communion, prayer for the Pope’s intentions, the prescribed work while your soul is in that moment of maximum purity after confession.

How to understand that you can only truly succeed in gaining one pleenary indulgence per day.

So make it count, make it intentional, make it a genuine act of love for a specific soul in purgatory.

The feedback has been transformative, not just for others, but for me.

I’ve received letters from people who say, “I’ve been Catholic my whole life, and I never understood that indulgences were real, powerful, effective until you explained what your son taught you.

” Others write, “I thought indulgences were medieval superstition, but now I understand they’re the ultimate expression of the communion of saints.

” and God’s merciful desire to unite us all in perfect charity.

But perhaps the most profound transformation is in my relationship with Carlo himself.

For years after his death, I related to him primarily as my deceased son, someone I had lost and grieved and missed.

After his beatification, I related to him also as blessed Carlo, an intercessor, someone whose prayers could help others.

But now, through this mission he gave me, I relate to him as a prophet whose vision extended far beyond his 15 years of earthly life and whose final gift to the church is unfolding exactly as he predicted.

Here we are in 2025 on the threshold of the Jubilee year 2026 that Pope Francis has convoked under the theme pilgrims of hope.

Every detail is exactly as Carlo described 19 years ago during that conversation on August 12th, 2006.

A future pope he couldn’t have known.

A theme related to hope and pilgrimage.

an extraordinary opportunity for plenary indulgences and most importantly a moment in history when the church desperately needs to recover the fullness of its teaching on the communion of saints and the treasury of merit.

Carlo’s teaching about the three secrets complete freedom from attachment to sin the optimal moment immediately after confession and the limit of one plenary indulgence per day is not complicated but it requires something most Catholics have never been taught that God’s mercy is so abundant so generous so eager to purify and perfect us that we can literally participate in the liberation ation of souls from purgatory through practices that are completely within our reach if we understand them correctly and practice them faithfully.

During the Jubilee year 2026, there will be countless opportunities to gain plenary indulgences.

crossing the holy door in Rome or in diosis and cathedrals, participating in missions of mercy, making pilgrimages to designated churches, performing works of charity under specific conditions.

The church will offer these opportunities generously because God’s mercy is infinite and his desire to unite all his children in perfect charity is unwavering.

But those opportunities will only bear the fruit they’re meant to bear.

If Catholics understand what I’ve shared with you today, if we approach indulgences as mere formulas to be completed mechanically, we’ll gain partial indulgences at best.

If we approach them as Carlo taught, as opportunities for profound interior purification, combined with the application of Christ’s infinite merits to souls who are being prepared for perfect union with God, then we will witness what Carlos saw in his mystical insight.

Purgatory being emptied more dramatically than in any previous holy year.

This isn’t about earning salvation through our works.

Salvation is pure gift, pure grace through Christ’s death and resurrection.

But the doctrine of indulgences properly understood is about how completely God desires to purify us and our loved ones.

How eager he is to apply the infinite merits of Christ to shorten or eliminate the temporal purification required for souls who are already destined for heaven.

If you’re listening to this story today, it’s not by accident.

Carlo believed deeply that nothing happens by coincidence, that every moment is orchestrated by divine providence for purposes of love.

You’re hearing this teaching now because you’re meant to participate in this mission.

Whether you’re a priest who can teach this to your parishioners, a lay person who can share it with your family, a theologian who can write about it with scholarly precision, or simply a Catholic who will practice it faithfully during the Jubilee year, you have a role to play.

My son Carlo told me the secret that most priests never explain.

That plenary indulgences truly can empty purgatory if Catholics understand three things.

Complete purification from attachments through confession, gaining indulgences immediately after while the soul is purest, and making the one daily opportunity count through intentionality and love.

He told me there would be a jubilee around 2026.

That would be the greatest opportunity for liberation of souls in decades.

That jubilee is here.

The opportunity is now.

Don’t waste it through ignorance or superficial practice.

Learn the three secrets.

Practice them faithfully and participate in the revolutions of mercy that God is offering to the church and to the world through the Jubilee year 2026.

The jubilee of hope that will liberate not just those who cross holy doors as pilgrims, but countless souls who await in purgatory for someone to understand and apply correctly the infinite treasury of Christ’s merits on their behalf.

This is Carlo’s final documented miracle.

Not a eukaristic miracle captured in a digital database, but a living miracle of mercy that will unfold.

soul by soul, confession by confession, indulgence by indulgence throughout the Jubilee year, liberating multitudes into the perfect joy of heaven.

May God grant all of us the grace to understand what Carlo understood, to practice what he practiced, and to participate in the great work of mercy that is about to unfold during the Jubilee year 2026, the year of Pilgrims of Hope.

when hope will be liberated from purgatory and will enter into the endless light of God’s perfect love.

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