A Time to Die Quotes

“Today, the monks are perhaps the last remaining people who can understand the words of Saint Francis of Assisi’s “Canticle of Brother Sun”:      Praise be to you, my Lord,      for our sister Corporeal Death,      from whom no living man can escape.      Sorrowful are they who die in mortal sin;      happy are they whom she finds living according to your will,      for the second death can do them no harm.”
― Nicolas Diat, A Time To Die: Monks on the Threshold of Eternal Life