And lastly it will say farewell to its own body, which it will leave pale and cold, to become repulsive in decay.Ĥ. It will say farewell to riches, pleasures, and idle companions to amusements and pastimes, to friends and neighbours, to husband, wife and child, in short to all creation. Consider the universal farewell which your soul will take of this world. Woe is me, for what mere trifles and unrealities I have ventured to offend my God? Then you will see that what we preferred to Him was nought. But, on the other hand, all devotion and good works will then seem so precious and so sweet:-Why did I not tread that pleasant path? Then what you thought to be little sins will look like huge mountains, and your devotion will seem but a very little thing.ģ. Consider that then the world is at end as far as you are concerned, there will be no more of it for you, it will be altogether overthrown for you, since all pleasures, vanities, worldly joys, empty delights will be as a mere fantastic vision to you. One day your soul will quit this body-will it be in summer or winter? in town or country? by day or by night? will it be suddenly or with warning? will it be owing to sickness or an accident? will you have time to make your last confession or not? will your confessor or spiritual father be at hand or will he not? Alas, of all these things we know absolutely nothing: all that we do know is that die we shall, and for the most part sooner than we expect.Ģ. Consider the uncertainty as to the day of your death.
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