“Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord. From
henceforth now, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors”
(Revelation 14:13).
“The souls of the just are in the hands of God, and the torment of death shall not touch them” (Wisdom 3:1).
He is not afflicted in leaving relatives; for he loved them only in God; and at death he recommends them to his heavenly Father, who lovest them more than he does; and having a secure confidence of salvation, he expects to be better able to assist them from heaven than on this earth. In a word, he who has constantly said during life, “My God and my all” continues to repeat it with greater consolation and greater tenderness at the hour of death.
He who dies loving God is not disturbed by the pains of death; but, seeing that he is now at the end of life, and that he has no more time to suffer for God, or to offer him other proofs of his love, he accepts these pains with joy. With affection and peace he offers to God these last remains of life, and feels consoled in uniting the sacrifice of his death with the sacrifice which Jesus Christ offered for him on the cross to his eternal Father. Thus he dies happily, saying “In peace in the self-same I will sleep and I will rest” (Psalm 4:9).
“The souls of the just are in the hands of God, and the torment of death shall not touch them” (Wisdom 3:1).
He is not afflicted in leaving relatives; for he loved them only in God; and at death he recommends them to his heavenly Father, who lovest them more than he does; and having a secure confidence of salvation, he expects to be better able to assist them from heaven than on this earth. In a word, he who has constantly said during life, “My God and my all” continues to repeat it with greater consolation and greater tenderness at the hour of death.
He who dies loving God is not disturbed by the pains of death; but, seeing that he is now at the end of life, and that he has no more time to suffer for God, or to offer him other proofs of his love, he accepts these pains with joy. With affection and peace he offers to God these last remains of life, and feels consoled in uniting the sacrifice of his death with the sacrifice which Jesus Christ offered for him on the cross to his eternal Father. Thus he dies happily, saying “In peace in the self-same I will sleep and I will rest” (Psalm 4:9).
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