The Last Day

We don't know when our last day will be, but this last day of the Church Year is a great day to reflect on it. Death is a serious thing, but it shouldn't terrify us. Death is a profound thought, but it shouldn't panic us. "Remember death, and thou shalt never sin."

Fr. Daniel Lord, SJ, wrote out his retreat notes when he knew he was dying of cancer. These were published in 1969 as Letters to My Lord by Fr. Daniel Lord.

He wrote:

"No one has even attempted to describe the moment when arriving in eternity the soul knows that the shell is broken, its limitations are dissolved, there will be sight without straining and sound without confusion and knowledge without effort and love without disillusion."

That is my thought for today. After the last moment of this life, comes the first moment of the next, so aptly described above by someone who was about to face it.