Vatican Offers Plenary Indulgence for Visiting the Elderly on Grandparents’ Day
The second World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly will be celebrated July 24.
The second World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly will be celebrated July 24.
COMMENTARY: It’s highly significant that Pope Francis has established the ‘World Day of Grandparents and the Elderly’ to be celebrated every year on the fourth Sunday of July.
In his message ahead of the first World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly, Pope Francis referred to his own advanced age, and quoted his predecessor, Pope emeritus Benedict XVI, whom he called “a saintly elderly person who continues to pray and work for the Church.”
Founder of an association dedicated to the vocation of families’ elderly says their role is encouraging the ‘story of the living faith.’
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“I still treasure the words my grandmother wrote to me on the day of my ordination. I carry them with me to this day inside my breviary,” the Holy Father told pilgrims March 11.
‘A society where the elderly are discarded carries within it the virus of death,’ the Holy Father said at March 4 general audience.
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