Memento Mori

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 251 246 1); color: rgba(47 25 59 1)>Most Christians forget the one truth Jesus never allows His disciples to ignore: you will die and you do not know when.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 251 246 1); color: rgba(47 25 59 1)>Forgetting this breeds the very diseases Christ condemns-sloth delay complacency and the soft indifference that numbs the soul. Scripture calls such a life foolishness. The saints call it sleep.</span></p><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 251 246 1); color: rgba(47 25 59 1)>Memento Mori</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 251 246 1); color: rgba(47 25 59 1)> is a summons back to the wisdom we have lost. Drawing from the Psalms the Desert Fathers the warnings of the Lord and the Bridegroom theology of the early Church this book exposes the spiritual cost of ignoring our mortality and the freedom that comes from remembering it.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 251 246 1); color: rgba(47 25 59 1)>To remember death is not morbid. It is Christian. It is the discipline that awakens vigilance purifies love strengthens repentance and prepares the heart for the moment every story reaches its truth: the face of Christ.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 251 246 1); color: rgba(47 25 59 1)>This book argues one simple life-altering claim:</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 251 246 1); color: rgba(47 25 59 1)>To remember one's death is to rediscover the Christian life itself.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 251 246 1); color: rgba(47 25 59 1)>Those who live in this remembrance become sober wise detached and ready for love-like the wise virgins whose lamps never run dry. Memento mori forms the bride who lives awake longing for the Bridegroom who comes suddenly mercifully and in glory.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 251 246 1); color: rgba(47 25 59 1)>Live as if you will see Him soon-because you will.</span></p><p></p>