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Life to Death
Father McKeon
November 30, 2005
Death frames life and infuses it with an
aura of mystery.
We cannot reduce life to function or to
the ordinary.
We cannot seize life nor confine it to
experience. It defies limitation.
Death beckons us in a way that does not
limit us but offers more. Death is the gateway that
enhances the mystery beyond time and place.
Every spiritual tradition celebrates death
as a form of liberation. It is not seen as retribution
or a penalty.
We reduce ourselves when we become
the arbiters of life.
And we reduce ourselves when we become the
arbiters of death.
Civilized people have an intuition that
life is to be encouraged and celebrated.
To willfully kill another human being is
to bring terror to the world.
It does not become us.
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