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Someone sent me the following at the begining of January.

“Time”

The old year is past, a new one has just begun, and we are all now one year closer to eternity. For many people this past year, time was no more. One moment they were in time, the next moment they were in eternity. Time is a two-sided coin, one side despised and wasted during life, the other priceless, an unattainable at the hour of death.

God has given us these days to work out our salvation, but how well do we use them? How often have we observed a man in idle pursuit? If we were to ask him what he is doing, he would reply: "Oh, I am just passing the time."

I remember an old song of many years past. It was called "Standing on the Corner Watching All the Girls Go By." Are we just standing on the corners of life watching the days of our salvation going by unused?

To quote Saint Alphonsus De Liguroi: 

"O time despised during life, you will be ardently desired by worldlings at the hour of death. The thought that they must very soon appear before Almighty God, to give an account of their lives, fills them with untold confusion and anguish. They will ask for another year, another month, or another day to settle the accounts of their conscience, but they will ask in vain. To obtain a single hour they would give all their wealth and worldly possessions, but that hour shall not be given."  

Let us therefore exert ourselves to the utmost to accomplish the work of our salvation while there is still time. Do now, what, on the Day of Judgment, you would then wish you would have done. For at the moment of death, the time of grace will have passed, the time of justice will have come.

(Hebrews 9: 27; 2 Corinthians 5:10; Romans 14:10, 12; Matthew 7:13-14; 25:31-47).

Best wishes for a happy new year to all.

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New Blog post: Where are my posts?

Posted by zeland2645 on Feb. 3, 2025, 4:59 p.m.

Several weeks a I posted some pictures, and srticles, but they have never been posted. Whlere are they?

New Blog post: The Art of Dying Well.

Posted by zeland2645 on Jan. 6, 2025, 12:37 a.m.

"We are born to die. This inevitable fact could lead to fatalism, although, more often, we simply fall into denial. We avoid thinking about death and stigmatize it as the greatest evil.

If this world is all we have, then death would be the greatest evil, although life itself would become futile, a temporary illusion — grasping pleasure as it slips through our fingers.

For a Christian, however, we are born to live. The inevitability of ...