04/12/2014 VATICAN
They are "the sick who offer their suffering for the Church, for others", the "many elderly people living alone, who pray and offer", "so many mothers and fathers of families, who, with so much effort, raise their families, educate their children, carry on their daily work, bear their problems, but always with hope in Jesus, who do not strut about, but do what they can"."many priests who are not seen, but who work in their parishes with such love: [doing the work of] catechesis for children, care of the elderly, of the sick, the preparation of new spouses ".