Holy Week: Living and Dying

Sometimes we hold on too much to life and there are times when we seem to use death as an escape route - a false solution to our problems. But what is it that makes life worth living and at the same time worth dying for.

“How can we describe that moment in which we experience what life truly is? It is the MOMENT of LOVE, a moment which is simultaneously the moment of truth when life is discovered for what it is. The DESIRE for IMMORTALITY does not arise from the fundamentally unsatisfying enclosed existence of the isolated self, but from the experience of love, of communion, of the Thou." - Joseph Ratzimger, Eschatology: Death and Eternal Life

Death is the door to eternity. With a life lived in love and truth, death becomes its fullness. It is fulfilment of what we are living for.

“I have not so lived amongst you, that I need be ASHAMED to LIVE; nor do I FEAR to DIE, for we have a GOOD LORD”. -St. Ambrose

“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong DESIRE to LIVE taking the form of a READINESS to DIE.” - GK Chesterton