Ascending Life International’s Day

In Santo Domingo, the LAI Statutory General Assembly decided that the Day of Ascending Life International would be celebrated each year on October 1, which corresponds to the international Day of the Elderly set by the United Nations.

Ascending Life in South America celebrated this day

This day is a good opportunity to remember the place that the elderly deserves to occupy in our society, as in every family and of course in the Church. This role of grandparents makes families an intergenerational bridge, where everything that has been lived can be saved and served throughout life.

A society that integrates its elders, continues to take them into account, consults them and knows how to thank them, is a rich society. This society will find new means of communication in the younger generations. A society that takes care of what has been built in the past and strives to do even better.

In older people who can enjoy the richness of the years, Ascending Life helps the elders during the meetings and brings a spirituality typical of those who have worked all their lives, those who have built a family and contributed to the common good.

Ascending Life allows them to find an environment of friendship and spirituality, the place of grandparents in the family. Every ecclesiastical community that cares of its elders finds a special place for them, because they are the ones who have worked for years and now are giving way to the youngest.

Ascending Life welcomes those who reach this mature age, those who begin to call themselves "grandfather, grandmother", those who, in civil society, retire from a job but not from life. Full of vitality and with many things to do, seniors do not retire, they are looking for new activities.

Rising Life provides its teams with the "old and the new" of which the Gospel speaks, it knows the charisma of the elders and how the Church puts them at the service of evangelization, not in words, but by the testimony of their lives.

Happy Seniors' Day!

Happy Ascending Life Feast around the world!

Father Osvaldo Montferrand

Zarate, Argentina