Today is the name / feast day of Saint Alphonsus Liguori, one of the great doctors of moral theology of the Catholic Church. If you're interested in how to prepare for your death, then he is your guy... Here's a good quote:
"...is not he a fool who seeks after happiness in this world, where he will remain only a few days and exposes himself to the risk of being unhappy in the next, where we must live fore eternity? We do not fix our affections on borrowed goods, because we know that they must soon be returned to the owner. All the goods of this earth are lent to us..."
Today is the name / feast day of Saint Alphonsus Liguori, one of the great doctors of moral theology of the Catholic Church. If you're interested in how to prepare for your death, then he is your guy... Here's a good quote: "...is not he a fool who seeks after happiness in this world, where he will remain only a few days and exposes himself to the risk of being unhappy in the next, where we must live fore eternity? We do not fix our affections on borrowed goods, because we know that they must soon be returned to the owner. All the goods of this earth are lent to us..."
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