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Caring for Elderly Parents

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🗓️ 2 February 2023

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

What are our responsibilities when it comes to caring for our parents? As we get older, so do our parents. In this episode, Fr. Josh explains the duty we have to our parents but also how our relationships with our parents change as we get older. He also shares two stories of people that can be examples to us when it comes to caring for parents and the elderly.

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ask father Josh on today's show we're going to be talking about how do we care for our

0:35.8

elderly parents whenever our parents begin to age how do we love them well and their walk

0:40.6

toward becoming saints and in our walk toward becoming saints but before we get into

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that really good question I'm going to share with you a glory story.

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Some of the glory stories I encounter priest recently who speak of elderly parents just

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his dad lives with him his mom passed away already but his dad is like a saint his dad

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so his dad moved into the directory as he's gotten older and they prayed it together

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everyday like literally they get up and they pray together the rosary they do divine

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office his dad goes to mass with him at the parish and he told me anytime he gets the

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sick call like three a minute morning whenever he gets about a bed get stressed puts his

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cast on get the oils as he has toward the door his dad's already standing with the coat

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and a rosary and says all right son where we're going and the dad goes with him when he

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goes to the hospital when he goes to the hospital center when he goes to the nursing home when

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he goes to the person's house whoever is dying whoever's preparing to death the dad

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