PURPOSE: This blog serves as my personal journal and album as well. A collection of inspirational articles, my own compositions as well as those borrowed from other minds. Included herein are the inspirational videos, photographs of my own family and various pictures personally taken.

INSPIRATION: Someday when I ‘m gone I hope this blog would still be around to constantly remind my own children what sort of a Father they had. That these are the sort of stories I liked. That this is the way how I think, i.e., through my own articles. That they are very precious to me. That this is the epitaph I wanted to be written in my tomb. That these are the sort of things they should do during my 7 days novena when I’m already dead, e.g., the prayers I wanted to be recited during my wake. So on and so forth… (Many of these things are still to be written)

Thursday, April 2, 2009

PRAYER FOR A GOOD DEATH

In the name of your little friend St. Therese of the Child Jesus, I humbly come to ask you Lord that when our time comes to leave here below, do not call us by a sudden death...
Not by an accident that tears the body apart.
Not by an illness that leaves the mind confused or the senses impaired.
Not by a malady that wears out the soul, or at the mercy of evil forces.
Not with a heart filled with hate, or a body racked with pain.
Not abandoned lonely, without love or care.
Not by our own hands in a moment of despair.
Jesus, let death come as a gentle friend to sit and linger with us until you call our names.

Then let us enter your heavenly home to receive your final gift of grace to be near you forever and look upon the divine countenance of your Holy Face. Amen.
---anonymous (Most probably by a Carmelite Nun or Friar)
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