General Audience of 24 August 2022 - Catechesis On Old Age: 18. The labour pains of creation. The story of the creature as a mystery of gestation

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General Audience of 17 August 2022: Catechesis on Old Age - 17. The "Ancient of days". Old age is a reassurance regarding the destination to a life that never dies again

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General Audience of 10 August 2022 - Catechesis on Old Age: 16. “I go to prepare a place for you”. Old age, a time projected towards fulfilment

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General Audience, 22 June 2022 - Catechesis on Old Age: 15. Peter and John

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General Audience, 15 June 2022 - Catechesis on Old Age: 14. The joyful service of faith that is learned in gratitude (cf. Mk 1, 29-31)

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General Audience, 8 June 2022 - Catechesis on Old Age: 13. Nicodemus. “How can a man be born when he is old?” (Jn 3:4)

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General Audience, 1st June 2022 - Catechesis on Old Age: 12. "Forsake me not when my strength is spent" (Ps 71:9)

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General Audience of 25 May 2022 - Catechesis on Old Age: 11. Ecclesiastes: the uncertain night of meaning and of things in life

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General Audience of 18 May 2022 - Catechesis on Old Age: 10. Job. The trial of faith, the blessing of waiting

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General Audience of 11 May 2022 - Catechesis on Old Age: 9. Judith. Admirable in youth, a generous in old age

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General Audience of 4 May 2022 - Catechesis on Old Age

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General Audience of 27 April 2022 - Catechesis on Old Age - Naomi, the alliance between the generations that opens up the future

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General Audience of 20 April 2022 - Catechesis on Old Age

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General Audience of 30 March 2022 - Catechesis on Old Age

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General Audience of 23 March 2022 - Catechesis on Old Age

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General Audience of 16 March 2022 - Catechesis on Old Age

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General Audience of 2 March 2022 - Catechesis on Old Age - 2. Longevity: symbol and opportunity

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General Audience of 23 February 2022 - Catechesis on Old Age

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Prayer for the Third World Day

for Grandparents and the Elderly 2023

Virgin Mary, 

Mother of faith and hope,

an example for this humanity bent by indifference,

make me as willing as You 

to accept the will of God,

to magnify and praise His Mercy.

Mary, Mother of fortitude,

you who knows my heart, 

do not allow me to become discouraged. 

I confidently surrender my life into your hands. 

Heal my wounds.

May your tenderness accompany me on the way.

Your presence, Mother of love, 

brings us to experience the joy 

of seeing our families united. 

Help me to transmit the tenderness and Love of God

to the grandchildren and youth 

so that, in addition to praying for them,

we can pray with them.

Mary, may the gift of the Holy Spirit intercede for me:

sustain my weakness;

breathe into my heart the consolation 

that I may leave traces of faith among the young,

bearing witness to the beauty of life,

knowing that life has a limit 

and that beyond it lies before us our Father's embrace.

Amen.