There are about 120 people every day at Mass in my parish. They are of varying ages.
During the school year, 4 days a week the school children are there.
The prayers of “old people” are just as valuable as those of the middle age and the young.
They are the ones who know the best way to start the mornings off in their retirement years. God bless them.
Except that his comment didn’t have anything to do with prayer.
It was in response as to why nobody did anything.
And I think his response was reasonable.
The little Catholic church in our town has daily mass attenders, basically the same people every day, a handful of them, and the average age is past retirement, except for a very few high, holy days.
Except that in our town, if there started to be threats of violence in any churches, I’d fully expect someone to be packing. Even here in Upstate NY.
Or more likely, especially here in Upstate NY.