Rorate Caeli: When the elderly are discarded, when the elderly are isolated and sometimes pass away without affection, it is a very bad sign! … A people that does not take care of its elders, that does not take care of its young people, is a people without a future, a people without hope. Because young people — children, the youth — and the elderly advance History forward. Children, young people, true, with their biological force. The elderly, by giving them memory. But when a society loses its memory, it’s over, it’s over! It’s sad to see a society, a people, a culture that has lost its memory. … Read more here.
