07/27/2026
“God’s love, which forgets no one, offers itself as an act of justice and a response to the anonymity in which human life all too often ends up lost. The lives of many elderly people, in particular, seem to be covered by a veil that blurs the features of their faces and shrouds them in oblivion. This is what happens in homes where loneliness reigns and also in those care facilities where each person’s uniqueness risks being reduced to a bed number or an illness.”
The World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly is "an opportunity to rediscover that the Church is called to be a mother to all," the pontiff wrote.
