Yesterday, All Soul’s Day, shortly after midnight Sr. Sarah’s mother went home to the Lord.  She was able to be with her when she died.  Just an hour or so ago Sr. Sarah shared with me this excerpt from a book of meditations based on St. Francis de Sales.  It is a great comfort to her. May it be a comfort for all of you:

Death is a benefactor, who tears away the veil that separates us from God; it is the hand that closes our eyes to open to us the fatherland; it is the sunshine, the spring sunshine, which breaks the envelope of the humble chrysalis, to give it the wings and the flight of the butterfly; it is according to the expression of Holy Scripture and of the Church, the sleep which prepares us for an immortal awakening; it is the beginning of true life; it is the leap of the child into the arms of its Father.  Let us then be consoled.  (Lieutenant-Colonel M. De S., Draw Near to God)