“See how I am presuming to speak...for my parents, but when they put this sign up decades ago I’m not so sure the intention was, “There are Slow Grandparents Playing” rather than “Slow Down for Grandparents Playing”.
R. Lord, on the day I called for help, you answered me.
May your right hand save me.
Help me LORD in completing here at The Glenn what he has begun for my parents;
your kindness, O LORD, endures forever;
forsake not the work of your hands.
MY parents were buried with Christ in baptism,
in which they were also raised with him. They made The Glenn a place where they & their grand & great-grandchildren could play. It is “right and just” that I remember them on this, the 2nd ANNUAL World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly introduced by Pope Francis. His full message is available to download from https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/messages/nonni/documents/20220503-messaggio-nonni-anziani.html.
Bishop Zurek, how can the Diocese of Amarillo receive a Spirit of adoption,
through which we cry, Abba, Father, to a Father who does not irrationally attempt to stand in the way of progress and human development.
“And I tell you, ask and you will receive;
seek and you will find;
knock and the door will be opened to you.”And I tell you, ask and you will receive;
seek and you will find;
knock and the door will be opened to you.”
Lk 11:9
It is a matter of openness to different possibilities which do not involve stifling human creativity and its ideals of progress, but rather directing that energy along new channels.
from paragraph 191 of Laudato Si