I shall die, i shall leave everything: my parents, my friends, my pleasures, my possessions and all that is most dear to me. A casket and six feet below the earth will be left for me and this will happen very soon. How short, indeed, even the longest life is! I shall die......my body will be food for worms. It will return into the dust whence it came. It will fall into universal oblivion. Such is the destiny of this body of mine, which i now idolize. Ah! How this thought, far from frightening me, ought to cheer me, if i were a true child of mary. Should i not long for that blessed moment? But that which really ought to frighten me is not death, but rather the dreadful account which i must render before the tribunal of the supreme judge of my whole life, of all the works i have done, of all the religious exercises i have performed, of all the graces i have received, of all the good and evil i have done or intended to do. Even the saints dreaded this terrible moment, yet i, frivolous and thoughtless that i am and guilty of having rejected so many graces, i tremble not! What will become of me?. DWELL ON THESE THOUGHTS FOR A WHILE. ___From handbook for preparation for total consecration, by confraternity of mary queen of all hearts.
Posted on: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 19:31:10 +0000
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