Many images stream into my mind when I raise this question, some popular: Indiana Jones shouting to a man in a red fez, as the boat gets hacked to pieces by a rotating propeller behind them, “We’re both going to die!” The man replies, “My soul is prepared. How’s yours?”
Others are devotional: the mosaic of St. Agnes at the National Shrine, whom we celebrate as a “happy one” (beata), yet martyred at 13 years old. Some are personal: I think of what someone said after my son, Thomas, died of crib death at seven weeks, “We can all rejoice that
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