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  Catechesis on Old Age 1. The grace of time and the bond between age and life  Wednesday, 23 February 2022 2. Longevity: symbol and opportunity  Wednesday, 2 March 2022 3.  Old Age, A Resource for Lighthearted Youth  Wednesday, 16 March 2022  4. 4.  Fairwell and inheritance: memory and testimony  Wednesday, 23 March 2022 5.  Fidelity to God’s Visitation for the Next Generation  Wednesday, 30 March 2022 6.  "Honour your father and your mother": love for the gift of life Wednesday, 20 April 2022 7.  Naomi, the alliance between the generations that opens up the future Wednesday, 27 April 2022 8.  Eleazar, consistency of the faith, honourable inheritance  Wednesday, 4 May 2022 9. Judith. Admirable in youth, a generous in old age  Wednesday, 11 May 2022  10.  Job. The trial of faith, the blessing of waiting  Wednesday, 18 May 2022  11. Ecclesiastes: the uncertain night of meaning  and of...

 Published online by Commonweal on March 3, 2025 Pope Francis's Preferential Option for the Elderly Old age is not a disease,” my mom proclaimed. By this time, she was close to ninety. But age had already long freed her tongue: on reaching eighty she’d informed us, more than once, “I’m old now and I can say what I want. Carmen Nanko-Fernández is professor of Hispanic theology and ministry and director of the Hispanic Theology and Ministry Program at the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago .  Pope Francis channeled my mom, speaking out against temptations to pathologize aging: “Many people are afraid of old age. They consider it a sort of disease with which any contact is best avoided.” Second World Day for Grandparents and Elderly "In old age they will still bear fruit" (Psalm 92:15) These words of the Psalmist are glad tidings, a true “gospel” that we can proclaim to all on this second World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly. They run counter to what the wo...

  “Every moment and every event of every man’s life on earth plants something in his soul. Each moment brings with it germs of spiritual vitality. If these seeds would take root in my liberty, and if His will grow from my freedom, I would become the love that He is. and my harvest would be His glory and my own joy."  Thomas Merton,  Seeds of Contemplation ,   Photo taken on December 29, 2024 @5:18pm about the time when we discovered the bishop's pastoral letter on the internet. The original post was on December 30, 2024 @ 12:39pm “It’s simply a letter about how we can draw closer to Christ, and there is no controversy in that,” Bishop Malesic said. “Let’s just pray 15 minutes a day; join a small group; invite your Catholic neighbors and friends together to have a cup of coffee and talk about ‘Why are you Catholic?’; ‘How can you become a disciple of Jesus?’ I think these are the basic things.” -from a media interview of the bishop A Flourishing Apostolic Church I inv...

  A Flourishing Apostolic Church “It’s simply a letter about how we can draw closer to Christ, and there is no controversy in that,” Bishop Malesic said. “Let’s just pray 15 minutes a day; join a small group; invite your Catholic neighbors and friends together to have a cup of coffee and talk about ‘Why are you Catholic?’; ‘How can you become a disciple of Jesus?’  I think these are the basic things.”  I invite every Catholic in the Diocese of Cleveland to read this pastoral letter in its entirety, as I have written it with each of you in mind. Make notes and underline your copy of the letter; Consider reading it more than just once. then, meet with some other Catholics who have read this letter and discuss it in a small group. Over the next year I would like this letter to be at the forefront of conversations around the diocese.  OVERVIEW OF LETTER AND POST Underlines Sketches Overview      Part I: The Paschal Mystery We Catholic Christians first...