The case of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux powerfully underscores the fact that, by the grace of the Lord, death must, as far as possible, be a voluntary act, undertaken as a deliberate and consummate offering to the Lord, because – as has been said so many times – it is the supreme act of our lives, the act for which we live our lives.

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