on death...

Death of Fr. Chambers



Faith is the substance of hope.
But then the question arises:
do we really want to live eternally?

Death, admittedly, one would wish to postpone for as long as
possible. But to live always, without end뾲his, all things
considered, can only be monotonous and ultimately unbearable.
This is precisely the point made, for example, by Saint Ambrose,
one of the Church Fathers, in the funeral discourse for his deceased
brother Satyrus:

"Death was not part of nature;
it became part of nature.
God did not decree death from the beginning;
he prescribed it as a remedy.
Human life,
because of sin ... began to experience the burden of wretchedness in
unremitting labour and unbearable sorrow.
There had to be a LIMIT to its evils;
death had to restore what life had forfeited.
Without the assistance of GRACE, immortality is more of a burden
than a blessing"[6].
A little earlier, Ambrose had said:
"Death is, then, no cause for mourning,
for it is the cause of mankind's SALVATION"[7].




(spe salvi)




OUR prayers
and condolence
to Fr. Chambers SJ
one of the priests in culion who changed it...
living the life of JesusChrist