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The confrontational way to respond to that is to point out that many of our worse catachetical instruction, poor theological ideas, and all around garbage that is in the CHurch today is from people with PhDs in theology who run diocesis and schools. The only thing that the aged are exempted from are things like fasting during Lent. It is still meritorious for them to do so if they can, but they do not have to. Years ago, I would attend Mass at the Our Lady of the Angels Monastary at EWTN. There was a very, very old priest who was co-celebrant. To tell him he was not required to even attend would have been an insult to him.Father,
Thank you for your answer. I have tried telling him that myself but he gets up on his “I have a degree in Theology and used to work in a diocesis” horse and tells me I don’t know Canon Law (something I must admit is true). I have searched for documentation, but I have found nothing. I have decided that this is one of those areas where the correct answer is so obvious that nobody has ever written about it. (The correct answer being that we are obligated until the day after our funeral.)
I’ll tell him what you told me, and hope that is enough.
The aged are some of the greatest testaments to the faith. The old women praying the rosary, the old men standing firm through the years while younger men skip to watch football. No, they are needed, not exempted