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会Vsrythingiva th  quistions nowParhaps you  wil graduallywthoutnoticingalong som  distantday intanswer.McProfsssonleremoniesMarlanist Brathers  \n# SISTERS TODAY\n\nTO EXPLORE THE ROLE OF THE RELIGIOUS WOMANIN THE CHURCH IN OUR TIME  \nMAY 1970 VOLUME 41 NUMBER 9  \nUnderstanding Retirement 511Sister Mary Roman Ress,S.N.D.  \nPlanning for Retirement 515Sister M.Pauline Drewniak,O.S.F.  \nPoem 521  \nCommittees on Aging and Retirement for Religious 522Sister Margaret Flynn,D.C.  \nThe Physically Limited and Aged in Contemplative Communities 525Sister Marie Augustin,S.].C.  \nA Meditation on Middle Age 529Sister Mary Denis Rodrigue,O.Carm.  \nHow to Survive the Generation Gap 534Sister Rita McGuire,G.S.I.C.  \nPoem 539  \nBulletin Board 540  \nAnnouncements 543  \nLetters to the Editor 547  \nPoem 549  \nBook Reviews 550  \nPublished monthly except July and September by monks of Saint John's Abbey,Collegeville,Minnesota.Editor:Father Daniel Durken,O.S.B.Book ReviewEditor:Father Roger Kasprick,O.S.B.Cover Design:Sister Mary CharlesMcGough,O.S.B.,College of Saint Scholastica,Duluth,Minnesota.Indexed inthe Catholic Periodical Index.  \nAddress all correspondence to Sisters Today,Saint John's Abbey,Collegeville,Minnesota,56321.(Checks payable to Sisters Today.)All manuscripts shouldbe accompanied by a self-addressed envelope and postage.Poetry will notbe accepted until further notice.  \n1 year $4.00;2 years $7.00;single copy 50 cents.Foreign subscriptions(out-side U.S.A.):1 year $4.50;2 years $8.00.All subscriptions are payable inUnited States currency or check or International Money Order.Please allowsix weeks to two months for the filling of a subscription.  \nPrinted by Sentinel Publishing Company,Hiway 10 South,Sauk Rapids,Minnesota.(Do not send mail to this address.)Second Class postage paid atSaint Cloud,Minnesota.  \n# Understanding Retirement'\n\nThe very word\"retirement\"is somewhat threatening to people.BeforeI attempt to define its meaning I would like to preface my understandingof the term with a few underlying thoughts.  \nFirst of all,retirement is a word symbol for a complex of mentalconcepts.Like other words,it will elicit different concepts from sub-culture to sub-culture and from individual to individual.These conceptswill be highly colored by the nature of each society.In our Westerntechnical atmosphere,we emphasize certain values as worthwhile,yetwe know that all of them are not totally laudable.We esteem youth,production,performance,sex,material possessions,academic degrees,research,and speed.It is with such a value structure that we havecome to develop our conceptual complex for the word \"retirement.\"Retirement in such a culture has come to be a symbol for what I wouldcall a \"no more\"complex.  \nIf I were to ask you what thoughts come to mind when you hearthe word retirement,we may possibly come up with a pooled responsesuch as this:\"Retirement is a time for no more dignity,no more youth-fulness,no more respect,no more status,no more autonomy,no morephysical vigor.\"Perhaps some may even say,\"No more happiness andjoy.\"In our Western culture,conditioned by activism,retirement hascome to have a negative,debilitating connotation.  \nIt seems to me that in order to convert this negative outlook intoa positive one,one of two alternatives has to be followed.Either wehave to reconstruct a positive conceptual complex for the word retire-ment,or we should look around and find somebody with enough in-genuity and creativity who can coin a word for the positive process wereally want to consider.I have made an attempt to follow through onthe first alternative—to construct a concept by redefining a term.  \nBasically the understanding of retirement should be the same foranybody in any walk of life.Therefore I define retirement as \"a gradualor sudden transition from one's usual work i","cbCaip0R9AEr2NhH","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaip0R9AEr2NhH","pdf",1903418,48,"English","# Understanding Retirement\n## Retirement 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