My Prayer Book_LASANCE - the Catholic Kingdom!

2~ Heaven
"Trust not in thy friends and relations, nor put off
the welfare of thy soul to hereafter; for men will sooner
forget thee than thou imaginest.
"It is better now to provide in time and send some
good ,before thee, than to trust to the help of others
after thy death (Mall. vi. 20).
"How many die each day and how many thinking
to live long have been deceived and unexpectedly
snatched away!
"Strive now so to live that in the hour of thy death
thou mayst rather rejoice than fear.
"Learn now to die to the world that then thou mayst
begin to live with Christ (Rom. vi. 8).
"Chastise thy body now by penance that thou mayst
then have an assured confidence (I Cor. ix. 27).
"Make now to thyself friends, by honoring the saints
of God, and imitating their actions, that when thou
shalt fail in Chis life they may receive thee into everlasting
dwellings (Luke xvi. 9).
"Keep thyself as a pilgrim, and a stranger upon earth.
Refrain yourselves from carnal desires, which war
against the soy1 (I Peter ii. XI).
"Keep thy heart free and raised upward to God,
because thou hast not here a lasting abode.
"Send thither thy daily prayers, with sighs and tears,
that after death thy spirit may be worthy to pass happily
to Our Lord. Amen."
YE hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither hath it
"a entered into the heart of man, what things God
hath prepared for them that love Him" (I Cor. ii, 9).
"Heavenly happiness," as Boethius observes, "is a
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