Thoughts from St Alphonsus for Every Day-February 19

AT death we must leave all things. The brother of Thomas a Kempis took delight in speaking of a beautiful house which he had built for himself. A friend told him it had one great defect. "What is it ?" said he.

"It is," answered the other, "that you have made a door in it."

"What!" rejoined the brother of a Kempis. "Is a door a defect?"

"Yes," answered the friend; "for through this door you must one day be carried out dead, and must leave the house and all things."
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From Thoughts from St Alphonsus for Every Day
Compiled by Rev. C. McNeiry, C.SS.R.
Imprimatur: Joseph Hull, C.SS.R., Prov. Angl. Sup.
Nihil Obstat: Innocentlus Apap, O.P., S.T.M., Censor Deptutatus.
Imprimatur: Edm. Can. Surmont, Vicarius Generalis.
Westmonasterii, Die 9a Junii, 1927.
First published 1927