(ANSA) – VATICAN CITY, JUNE 22 – “Old age is like this, you get all these diseases and we have to accept them as they come. We don’t have the strength of young people”. Thus Pope Francis, during the general audience, comments on a passage from his catechesis in which he speaks of Jesus who, turning to Peter, tells him: “when you were young you were self-sufficient, when you are old you will no longer be so master of you and of yours. life”. “And tell me that I have to go around in a wheelchair”, Bergoglio’s ironic comment. “With illness and old age, dependence on others grows and we are no longer self-sufficient as before”, the Pope adds, explaining that “sometimes the leading role must decrease, we must accept that old age lowers you as a protagonist”. “But – he continues – you will have another way of expressing yourself, of participating in the family, in society in the group of friends”. “Learning to say goodbye, this is the wisdom of the elderly – concludes Bergoglio from St. Peter’s Square -. Let’s help the elderly to live and express their wisdom of life. Let’s look at them and listen to them. We elderly, always look at the young with a smile. An elderly person. he cannot be happy without looking at the young and a young person cannot go on in life without looking at the elderly “. (HANDLE).
Source: Ansa
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