Milan, April 22 (LaPresse) – ‘Death is not the end of everything, but the beginning of something. It is a new beginning, as the title wisely points out, because eternal life, which those who love already experience on earth in their daily occupations, is the beginning of something that will not end. And it is precisely for this reason that it is a ‘new’ beginning, because we will experience something that we have never fully experienced: eternity’. This is what Pope Francis wrote in the preface of Cardinal Angelo Scola's book ‘Waiting for a New Beginning. Reflections on old age’, published by Lev (Libreria Editrice Vaticana). “We must not be afraid of old age, we must not be afraid to embrace becoming old, because life is life and to sweeten reality means betraying the truth of things,” the Pontiff writes. ‘For to say ‘old’ does not mean ‘to be thrown away’, as a degraded culture of discarding sometimes leads one to think. Instead, saying ‘old’ means saying experience, wisdom, discernment, pondering, listening, slowness… Values that we sorely need!’
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