Archbishop Eamon Martin, Primate of All Ireland Grandparents have a responsibility to “step in and say something” to help their children and grandchildren, and bring family together.
Archbishop Eamon Martin, the Primate of Ireland, said in a Mass celebrating the 2017 Grandparents’ Pilgrimage to Knock that it can be difficult to make connections, especially “in a generation which can be so individualistic”.
“What’s needed of course is opportunities together as a couple and family, to work on our needs, our future, our happiness. It is true heart to heart communication like this that builds and holds family together,” he said.
Archbishop Martin said that sometimes grandparents may wish to say something, to point out what they think is right and wrong.
He quotes Jesus, who says: “If your brother does something wrong, go and have it out with him”. “This can be difficult nowadays in a generation which would hold up the right to individual choice as being so important – even more important than the right to life itself,” he added.