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1. The state of my soul before God 2. Faith in eternal life and in the judgement 3. Remembrance of death and vigilance 4. Concrete preparation and decisions 5. The fight against sin in the light of death 6. Detachment from the world and use of time 7. Relationships, forgiveness, and charity 8. Relationship with God and hope<\/strong> 9. Continuous vigilance and preparation for eternity 1. The state of my soul before God – Am I in a state…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52368,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-52376","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donbosco.press\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donbosco.press\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donbosco.press\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donbosco.press\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donbosco.press\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52376"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.donbosco.press\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52385,"href":"https:\/\/www.donbosco.press\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52376\/revisions\/52385"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donbosco.press\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donbosco.press\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>– Am I in a state of grace or do I live in sin without wanting to change?
\n– Do I go to confession with sincerity and regularity, without putting off conversion, thinking I have time?
\n– If I were to die tonight, would I be at peace? If not, am I determined to eliminate the cause, whatever the cost?<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>– Do I truly believe that I will have to give an account of my entire life?
\n– Do I truly believe that Heaven and Hell are eternal?
\n– Do I live only for this life, forgetting that everything will pass away?
\n– Do I neglect preparation for eternal life by thinking only of the present one?<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>– Do I at least occasionally think that I will have to die?
\n– Do I remember the teaching: “Memento mori – Remember your last end”?
\n– Do I seriously reflect on death at least once a month? Does this reflection change me?
\n– Do I live as if death were far away, forgetting that I could die even today?<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>– If I prepare seriously for important life events, do I realise that death is the most important event of my life, for which I must prepare with the utmost diligence?
\n– Am I preparing concretely for the encounter with God?
\n– Do I always put off important decisions, leaving everything for “tomorrow”?
\n– What will I do today to be more ready?<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>– In temptations, do I think that I could die immediately afterwards? – Does this thought help me to resist evil?
\n– Do I seriously fight my habitual sins?
\n– Do I let myself go, thinking that “it’s nothing”?
\n– Do I underestimate the danger of sin, knowing that whoever dies in mortal sin goes to Hell for all eternity?<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>– Does the thought of death help me to detach myself from vanities and from what distances me from God?
\n– Have I become too attached to the world?
\n– Do I live as if I were to remain here forever?
\n– Does the brevity of life push me to live each day well?
\n– Do I use the time God gives me well? Do I waste time on useless things?
\n– Do I try to do good every day?
\n– Do I put off what is important?
\n– Do I live without an eternal purpose?<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>– Am I at peace with everyone; have I forgiven those who have wronged me, and have I asked for forgiveness when necessary?
\n– Do I put off reconciliation and not risk presenting myself to God with a closed heart?
\n– Do I do good when I can, without putting off the charity I can live today?<\/p>\n
\n– Do I live in friendship with God, praying every day and entrusting myself to Him?
\n– Do I remember God only in times of need or live far from Him?
\n– Do I have peace in my heart when I think of death?
\n– Do I trust in His mercy and live with Christian hope, without despairing of salvation?<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>– Do I live each day as a preparation for the encounter with God, keeping my soul ready?
\n– Am I ready to die at any moment? Do I keep my soul prepared?
\n– Do I remember God during the day or do I live as if God did not exist? Do I live vigilantly?
\n– Do I delude myself into thinking I always have time and live distractedly and unprepared?
\n– Have I also put practical matters in order, such as my will?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"