“How does it happen, that we think of everything else, except the most important affair of man, that is, to die well? We can die but once; if not well accomplished, the error is eternal. It is usual to fail at first, in embroidery, dancing, and similar things. Why then not accustom ourselves to die to self, to the passions, before leaving this life? Imagine that an angel from Heaven admonishes you, that you are to die three days hence. How would you employ the interim? In exact confession, in the performance of fervent and supernatural acts, in pious works. Now, you have no certainty of living for three days. Why not do for yourself, what you would wish to have done at the hour of death? Why not execute for yourself those pious works, which you wish your heirs to do for you? Let us endeavor, by the thought of death, to amend our failings, and increase our merits; to detach ourselves from all the vanities of the world, and to serve God alone.” —Fr. Liborio Siniscalchi, S.J.
Posted on: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 01:50:42 +0000
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