The Vision Of Catholic Grandparents Association

By Jana Serrano


Perhaps, one of the most wonderful end of life is to become a grandparent. If you look back, the young age is a roller coaster of wonderful experiences and memories you can always treasure. And when you grow up and dwell in your twilight years, it is your time to give to the new generation what you have experienced when you were still in their place by being a wonderful grandmother or grandfather.

Commonly, grandparents become very fond of their grandchildren that it almost seemed as if they loved them more than they do their children. But that is not necessarily the case. First of all, grandparents have a role to play and so they need to get involved and by doing so, they foster the kind of relationship they all display. That is what is common in the Catholic grandparents association.

Well first of all, there is nothing truer than the fact that parents love their children most. For this reason, they came to love everything about them. That is why you can see how they care for things they care and love the things they love as well. They even come to treat their friends like their own children already just because of the connection they have with their children.

You see, the love which the parents have for their children is inclusive. They even get to love their kids friends a lot so what more if it were a grandchild. This is the reason why grandparents pamper their grandchildren a lot. That is simply an overflow of the love that they have for their child. When you ask grannies about this, they would simply say, I love my children, thats why.

That is how grannies feel for their granddaughters and grandsons. Given the fact that they are a product of their own kids, they loved them like their own. But sometimes, grannies become very fond of their grandchildren that they tend to spoil them. This is one reason why the association for Catholic grandparents existed.

Truly. In a Catholic family, nothing is more important than teaching and leading the child into the way of truth and life which is in God alone. Just as these grannies who were parents of the present ones before put their all to this mission, so do they have the same goal for their grandchildren. Thus, the association of Catholic grannies emerged.

To make it more specific, this group of people is united by believing in the importance of the vocation of grandparents. This association was actually established just recently by Catherine Wiley who is a loving grandmother to her grandchildren as well. For her, it is the duty, responsibility, and vocation of grannies to do what they can since it is probably the most important and last important job they can have.

And it was such an inspiration for the group when the Holy Father, Pope Francis spoke of how he greatly loved his grandmother Rosa who became his teacher of faith. Because of this, all the elders who have taken his message were moved to play their role. And with this, the grannies took on their mission.

And so, the association took charge of orienting and accommodating interested grannies who wish to know more about how to successfully perform their task. With this, grannies pamper their grandkids to faith and show them how to live love. So see, it is after all still because of their love for their children that they love their grandchildren a lot.




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