A Touching Prayer You Can Say for Grandparents and the Elderly - as Released by the Vatican - on their 3rd World Day and Everyday!



Pope Francis celebrated a special Mass, with 8,000 people, for Grandparents and the Elderly at St Peter's Basilica at the Vatican. See the Mass: https://www.catholicnewsworld.com/2023/07/pope-francis-to-8000-at-mass-says-gods.html 
At his Angelus he reminded everyone to pray and visit the elderly, sick and grandparents. See More: https://www.catholicnewsworld.com/2023/07/pope-francis-says-god-farmer-of-great.html
The Vatican's Dicastery for the Laity and Family Life released this Official Prayer for 2023:
 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.

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