Memento Mori. Latin phrases have a way of tickling our intellect, even when we do not fully understand them. Memento Mori, latin can do a lot with to words. The short phrase translates to Remember death, or another translation suggests this; that one remember that one will one day die, one day our earthly end will have arrived and it is good to remember this one inevitable, unavoidable fact that awaits every one of us. We will all have our last our, our last breath and our last heartbeat.
Meditations on death are an important part of living.
Imitation of Christ, attributed to Thomas A Kempis, is the most read book on earth after the Holy Bible and now we have a new volume, by this author, translated for the first time into English, by Father Robert Nixon, Director at the New Norcia Institute for Benedictine Studies Western Australia.
It might seem like a macabre topic to start a new year, but the book, Meditations on Death, Preparing for Eternity, instead brings us to an appreciation of life with a healthy respect for it's fragility and helps us ponder and reflect on our use of this precious gift of life that God has given us.
Death can be seen as a doorway to eternity and the beginning of our eternal existence.
Joining me to discuss this work is the translator of the Latin text, Fr. Robert Nixon.
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