From News Nation:
“Pope
institutes Catholic day to honor the elderly”
Pope Francis on
Sunday instituted a “World day for Grandparents and the Elderly” in the Roman
Catholic Church to be marked once a year to honor them and to underscore their
importance to society. Francis, making the surprise announcement at his Sunday
noon address, said it would be marked on the fourth Sunday of July each year in
Catholic communities around the world. The Catholic Church already has a World
Day of Peace, which Pope Paul instituted in 1967, a World Day of Youth, which
Pope John Paul II established in 1984, and a World Day of the Poor, which
Francis started in 2017. The worldwide Church holds special events and
religious services on those days to draw attention to the needs and attributes
of the groups. Francis, 84, has often called on society to cherish the elderly
as a source of wisdom and experience and he has lamented a “throwaway culture”
that puts them aside because they are no longer productive.
^ It would be great
if people helped the elderly without needing a reason to, but they don’t so
hopefully this will make some help. ^
https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/pope-institutes-catholic-day-to-honor-the-elderly/
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