Just yesterday we received the blessed ashes made from the burning of last year’s Palms from Palm Sunday. At the imposition the priest said over us: “Remember man that thou art dust, and to dust thou shalt return”
Death is sanitized in our day and often we do not face it, or even have the opportunity to face it squarely, because it is so easily covered and hidden by modern advances. People “pass away”, or “are no longer with us”, we are afraid or embarrassed to say plainly they are dead. This is a great disservice to us and cheats us of one of the most important aspects of life and that is the contemplation of death. This is good medicine to prepare us for life everlasting. For those who believe in the Resurrection meditation on one’s death is no morbid exercise, but rather a fuel for holiness.
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