Chapter 37: Care for the elderly and young

Human nature itself is drawn to tender concern for those in the two extremes of age and youth, but the authority of the Rule should reinforce this natural instinct. (From Ch. 37 of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry, OSB, 1997.)

It seems to me that the "natural instinct" of which St. Benedict speaks is not so apparent today. May I become ever more sensitive to the special gifts of the elderly and the young, and reflect them back to them.