Vatican City, Feb 1, 2018 / 09:05 am
Spending time reflecting on your own death can be a freeing experience, and one that can even help us to become better people, Pope Francis said in a homily at the Casa Santa Marta Thursday.
Death "is a fact that affects everyone," the Pope said Feb. 1. For some people it may come sooner and for some later, but regardless, "it comes."
Because we are all men and women on a journey in finite time, he continued, it is a good idea to pray to God asking for a good sense of time, so that we are not "imprisoned" by the present moment. He also recommended repeating to yourself the phrase: "I am not the master of time."
Remembering that we are all on the path to death "will make us treat everyone well."