Eternity and Death

Eternity and Death
Monday, Nov. 26th, 2007
Remember your four last ends: Death, Judgment, Heaven, and Hell.
The following are excerpts from Nov. 11 and Nov. 12th of Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger’s Book Co-Workers of the Truth 1992 Ignatius Press, San Fransisco

Let us dare to believe once more in eternal life, to live for eternal life.

Those who have talked us out of our belief in heaven, or would like to talk us out of it, have not given us the earth in exchange but have made it desolate and empty, have covered it with darkness. We must find once more the courage to believe in eternal life with all our heart.

A present that is only present and has no future has no hope. The nothingness that follows it also pollutes the present and makes it unbearable. Only eternity can unite the present and the future.

Humanity needs eternity; every other hope is too short for it. And it is not true that eternity robs humanity of time, impoverishes it, and makes it unimportant. On the contrary only eternity can give man time. If a person’s death is worthless then his life is worthless too.

There was a time when death was a forbidden topic in our society…. Death has actually become a fashionable topic.

The pressing of all questions: whether our life is to be measured in terms of eternity or is ordered solely to the fleeting moment.

What is obvious in all of them is that man cannot relinquish the struggle to learn about eternity, cannot give it up.

George H. Kubeck, Duplicate and or translate into Spanish.
P.S. In death we are born to eternal life.