Thought for the Day – 9 August – Meditations with Antonio Cardinal Bacci (1881-1971)
The Mystery of Life
“Life,” said the poet Tommaseo, “is only a remembrance, a hope and a passing moment.”
How true this is.
This life which preoccupies us so much, is only a point of time which continually passes and evades us.
We live on memories and on hopes but, in reality, our life is no more than an elusive period of time, flowing into the ocean of eternity.
Yesterday, we did not exist and tomorrow, we shall be no more.
Yesterday, God called us forth from nothingness and tomorrow, He will summon us from this fleeting existence, in order to reward or punish us in eternity.
It is the great mystery of life, that so much depends on a vanishing moment of time.
We have two alternatives.
We can direct our course in life towards God, in which case, we shall one day be happy with Him forever.
Or, we can travel in the opposite direction in pursuit of sensual satisfaction and transitory worldly success, in which case, we shall one day be rejected by God and shall be doomed to everlasting unhappiness.
Let us reflect on the importance of our choice!”
AnaStpaul 
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