I love the Catholic religion. They have a prayer for everything. I was listening to a homily via podcast the other day and Father said that people no longer pray for a "happy death". I internally giggled at first as the title sounds like a Chinese meal. (What do you want today? Oh....I feel like the happy death.)
Once I composed myself and read the prayer it was very centering. We are all born, we all die. In the meantime we do the best we can to love and serve others on earth and make it to heaven. People fear death and thereby avoid talk about it.
O God, great and omnipotent judge of the living and the dead, we are to appear before you after this short life to render an account of our works. Give us the grace to prepare for our last hour by a devout and holy life, and protect us against a sudden and unprovided death. Let us remember our frailty and mortality, that we may always live in the ways of your commandments. Teach us to "watch and pray" (Lk 21:36), that when your summons comes for our departure from this world, we may go forth to meet you, experience a merciful judgment, and rejoice in everlasting happiness. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.
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