Emmanuel Elders aims to promote and support opportunities to concretely manifest communion between the generations:
“By the love you have for one another, it will be known that you are my disciples,” says Jesus (Jn 13:35). The Church, the Body of Christ, a mystery of communion, is a sign and fruit of the Trinitarian communion of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Fraternal communion is missionary. It is all the more so when it is the expression of friendly encounters lived beyond the differences in states of life, ages, or cultures. It is a grace to be received and a challenge to be taken up because it is not always easy to remain in love, whatever happens. Only God can give us the grace to do so if we ask him.
Emmanuel Elders take to heart to offer the elderly the support and help they need to find a fruitful meaning to their old age, serve the Church and participate in its mission according to the calls of the Holy Spirit and their charisms.
Emmanuel Elders also wishes to be at the service of those who provide material, human, and/ or spiritual support to aging and who feel more vulnerable. Reaching out and accompanying is a learning process. Moreover, caregivers have their vulnerabilities and need help.
The proposals are in Emmanuel Community graces and the joy of witnessing God present among us even in our grey hair. He is all the more present when we pray to him, as the psalmist did…