Reflections-On-Growing-Old - Hardcover

John LaFarge

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0971772142 ISBN 13: 9780971772144

Publisher: Roman Catholic Books, 2006

Synopsis

Fr. John LaFarge How to conquer any fear of aging - and make your senior years your At 84, Fr. John LaFarge was struck by the many advantages and blessings of aging, and he observed that modern men and women have lost touch with the traditional view of old age as the crowning of life. Seeing it instead as a calamity, he says, is what makes aging such a misery for many. The right approach? The one the respected Jesuit himself cultivated: Old age is a gift .... I thank God for it daily. The challenge is to not only say that but mean it. Which begins, writes Father LaFarge, with the recognition that after all old age has its own meaning, like other phases of human life, and that the wisest thing we could do, when age creeps up on us, is to explore that meaning and to adopt some general plan of action, so as really to profit by it. With a wisdom borne of personal experience,

About this edition

• Publisher: Roman Catholic Books
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0971772142
• ISBN 13: 9780971772144
• Binding: Hardcover