(Part two of three)  If one has a lively interior life with God, death actually INCREASES the intimacy we have with those who have died (if they died loving, not rejecting, God).—Life of the Lay  that is what happened at the Ascension, the dead are somehow closer to the Faithful by grabbing their souls as their bodies separate.

Too bad it took until recently for some of the Church leadership to begin to understand that sadism and masochism are interconnected.—rdp46, who knows what he is talking about.  The Stations of the Cross better not be about a sadistic Father beating up on His Son.  Somehow suffering enables life (I have in mind my cat, suffering from a stroke at the end of life) to love.  I had to pick that cat up out of a difficult place . . . and the cat never tried to resist what must have been a painful procedure.