With the arrival of Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, the tradition marks the whole family to gather around the table and celebrate these two dates together especially. With the current situation and the consequent government restrictions that affect personal relationships, many families will find it impossible to repeat this custom.
For this reason, from the Family Area of the Diocese of Vitoria it has been proposed to turn this around and reach our relatives in a public and anticipated way, as a tribute and closeness. Thus, they have launched a proposal so that grandchildren and parents do not forget their elders.
HOW TO DO IT?
Can send an audio message of less than a minute by WhatsApp to the mobile number of the Family delegation: 679 38 63 03. All messages received will be broadcast in a Christmas program in COPE Vitoria –101.0fm– on Friday, December 18 at 1:30 p.m.
All older people who cannot meet their loved ones at Christmas as an indication and precaution against possible contagions, whether they are far or in residences without being able to have visitors, will be able to listen to the radio messages of congratulations and affection towards them from their relatives. “We must not be oblivious to the reality that many families are going to live,” he said. Oscar Areitio, Head of Family in the Diocese of Vitoria.
This idea arises after observing “some very hard situations of distance and impossibility of seeing each other, some even for many months, causing pain and suffering more if possible at this time” so that “we think that more than ever grandchildren and parents have to to be close to their elders, if not physically, then with affection and affection through what new technologies allow us ”. Areitio has warned that “many of our elders who live in their own homes or in nursing homes will be deprived of visits, meals and shared dinners with all that this entails” so “we must act responsibly without falling in coldness or distancing ”.
This situation “should bring us closer to our elders than ever before looking the other way” he recalled. For Areitio, this “should also serve us so that within the family the children are educated in love, tenderness and respect for their grandparents and elders” and thus, from this pandemic “we can draw good lessons where life of our elders and their well-being are always in our minds from small ”.
The Head of Family has thus encouraged parents and children to “participate in this simple but significant gesture to show that they remember their elders and that they will be very present this Christmas.”
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