Eleven days before St Josemaría died, on June 15, 1975, he said in a conversation with a numerous group of people of the Work: “Out of devotion I like to celebrate frequently - when it is liturgically permissible - the Mass of the Blessed Virgin: I think I have mentioned this before. And there is an old prayer, in which the priest asks for health
mentis et corporis, of mind and body, and then the joy of living. How beautiful! There are some who think the joy of living is something pagan, because what they are looking for is the joy of dying, of foolishly committing suicide, doing themselves to death with dung up to their eyebrows. To follow Christ and to seek sanctity is to have the joy of living. Saints are not sad or melancholic; they have a sense of humor.”
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