Wisdom from Dom Forgeot of Fontgombault Abbey

For monks, death is formidable, like a punishment, but it does not frighten us. It is natural. Hope is everything. We are confident that death will not separate the people who have loved each other on this earth.

—Dom Forgeot of Fontgombault Abbey from Nicolas Diat’s A Time to Die: Monks on the Threshold of Eternal Life