Wisdom from Nicolas Diat

 
 
 

All abbeys want to be great, contemplative boats launched toward heaven. The Benedictines who pray, sing, and work at Solesmes seek God just as do the sons of Saint Benedict from the humblest of priories in an isolated area. Death is the same in a Sarthe fortress as it is in the little cells of an African monastery. God does not differentiate between them.

—Nicolas Diat

from his book, A Time to Die: Monks on the Threshold of Eternal Life

 

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The end of life

How to die? How to respond to our fear of death? To answer these and other questions, Diat traveled to eight European monasteries, including Solesmes Abbey and the Grande Chartreuse. Through extraordinary interviews with monks, he learned that their death experiences are varied and unique, with elements of peace, pain, humility, sorrow, and joy.

 
 
 
 
 
 

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