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12 DECEMBER 2017 – For the elderly
A people that does not take care of grandparents, that does not treat them well has no future![1]
The elderly have wisdom.[2]
They are entrusted with a great responsibility: to transmit their life experience, their family history, the history of a community, of a people.[3]
Let us keep in mind our elders, so that sustained by families and institutions, may with their wisdom and experience collaborate in the education of new generations.[4]
[1] Paragraph 9. Meeting of the Pope with the elderly. Saint Peter’s Square. Sunday, 28 September 2014.
[2] Paragraph 4. Meeting of the Holy Father francis with the journalists during the flight to Brazil. Papal Flight. Monday, 22 July 2013.
[3] Paragraph 5. Meeting of the Pope with the elderly. Saint Peter’s Square. Sunday, 28 September 2014.
[4] Monthly intention of the Holy Father for December 2017 entrusted to the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network.