“He who has long been under the rod of God becomes God’s possession.  The consolation Our Lord gives is not always to cool our fevered brow or heal our broken limb, but to give us a vision of His purposes, so that we hasten to use every pain to save souls, to repair our own sins and those of others.  Oh!  That we could die in pairs: husband and wife, lover and beloved, widow and only son, friend and friend.  But we die singly that at death we might, by our free choice, be paired with Christ, as the thief on the right: ‘This day, thou shalt be with Me in Paradise.’”  Archbishop Fulton Sheen (Lenten & Easter Inspirations)