caring for aging parents

⁸But if anyone has no concern for his own, and especially for those of his own household, he has denied the faith, and he is worse than an unbeliever.

²²Listen to your father, who conceived you. And do not despise your mother, when she is old.

⁴But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let her first learn to manage her own household, and to fulfill, in turn, her own obligation to her parents; for this is acceptable before God.

¹⁶Honor your father and mother, just as the Lord your God has instructed you, so that you may live a long time, and so that it may be well with you in the land, which the Lord your God will give to you.

¹²Honor your father and your mother, so that you may have a long life upon the land, which the Lord your God will give to you.

²⁰Whoever curses his father and mother, his lamp will be extinguished in the midst of darkness.

¹⁰For Moses said: ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘Whoever will have cursed father or mother, let him die a death.’ ¹¹But you say, ‘If a man will have said to his father or mother: Korban, (which is a gift) whatever is from me will be to your benefit,’ ¹²then you do not release him to do anything for his father or mother, ¹³rescinding the word of God through your tradition, which you have handed down. And you do many other similar things in this way.”

⁹Whoever curses his father or mother shall die a death; he has cursed his father and mother. So let his blood be upon him.

²⁵Let your father and your mother be joyful, and may she who conceived you exult.

¹You should not rebuke an old man, but rather plead with him, as if he were your father; with young men, like brothers;

²⁵And standing beside the cross of Jesus were his mother, and his mother’s sister, and Mary of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene. ²⁶Therefore, when Jesus had seen his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing near, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold your son.” ²⁷Next, he said to the disciple, “Behold your mother.” And from that hour, the disciple accepted her as his own.

³²Rise up in the presence of a gray-haired head, and honor the reputation of an elder, and fear the Lord your God. I am the Lord.

³Listen to me, house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel, who are carried in my bosom, who were born from my womb. ⁴Even to your old age, I am the same. And even with your grey hairs, I will carry you. I have made you, and I will sustain you. I will carry you, and I will save you.

¹Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is just. ²Honor your father and your mother. This is the first commandment with a promise: ³so that it may be well with you, and so that you may have a long life upon the earth.

⁸May his days be few, and let another take his episcopate.

²Men will be lovers of themselves, greedy, self-exalting, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, wicked,