“It is better for me to die in Christ Jesus than to reign over the ends of the earth. Him it is I seek — who died for us. Him it is I desire — who rose for us.”
— St. Ignatius of Antioch, quoted in The Four Last Things: A Catechetical Guide to Death, Judgment, Heaven, and Hell
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