Beyond even Father John Corapi!

St. Alphonsus De Liguori on TIME !


But this hour shall not be given...


The source is based on one of most likely any number of the saint's works loosely labeled "Preparation for Death."

The one I'm using here is what I'd guess you might call a facsimile - English translation of the Italian original.

As the bottom of the back cover tells us, in the saint's own words:


"O time despised during life!"


"O time despised during life!"

"You will be ardently desired by worldlings at the hour of death.

"They will then wish for another year, another month, another day; but they will not obtain it: they will then be told that time shall be no longer.

"How much would they then pay for another week, or another day, to settle the accounts for their conscience?

"To obtain a single hour, they would, says St. Laurence Justinian, give all their wealth and worldly possessions.

"But this hour shall not be given.."