A Time to Die

Monks on the Threshold of Eternal Life

De: Nicolas Diat

Narrado por: Scott Russell

Behind monastery walls, men of God spend their lives preparing for the passage of death. Best-selling French author Nicolas Diat set out to find what their deaths can reveal about the greatest mystery faced by everyone - the end of life.

How to die? How to respond to our fear of death? To answer these and other questions, Diat travelled to eight European monasteries including Solesmes Abbey and the Grande Chartreuse. Through extraordinary interviews with monks, he learned that their death experiences are varied and unique, with elements of peace, pain, humility, sorrow, and joy.

These monks have the same fears, torments, and sorrows as everyone else, Diat discovered. What is exemplary about them is their humility and simplicity. When death approaches, and its hand reveals its strength, they are like happy and naïve children who wait with impatience to open a gift. They have complete confidence in the mercy of God.

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Not what. I was hoping to find

This is a good book but misses what I was looking for. The reading was well done very clear I did not find it very thought provoking. It seems as if the writer visited several monasteries and listed several of the monk's deaths. I believe that if. I had visited the monasteries. I would have come away with more. Just my opinion. Thank you

If you worry about death, read this

Many thanks to Nicolas Diat for writing this book for us. What a gift to speak vicariously to so many different men of God about the approach of death and the reality of eternal life! I, for one, fear death, and my hope is weak. Reading this was a boost. Thank you God, for the sacraments and the Church and your holy monks.

For all beyond religion in search of God

Listen in 80% speed. Let it take us to the sites of happening and remind us of our Rest in Peace in the Lord

More depressing than you'd think...

Perhaps I am just very stupid and could not understand what the author was getting at, but I was under the impression that this was an audiobook about how certain religious orders as a whole handled death. To be fair, I stopped listening after about an hour in, but it seemed more like a depressing retelling of the suffering of certain monks as they passed into the next life, rather than an overview of a certain ideology.

That's not necessarily bad, it just wasn't what I thought this audiobook was about. I thought it was about a new or unique way of looking at death from the perspective of certain religious orders, but from what I heard, the brothers have the same sufferings and fears of death as any other man-on-the-street. Not that that's bad. These brothers are just people too, but I already know that death and suffering is scary and hard on those around it. I thought this was a different view, not just more of the same.

There are a number of other good reviews on this title, so perhaps I just wasn't getting the point, or if I had finished the work then maybe it would have made more sense, but I'm the type of person that doesn't continue an audiobook (or regular book) if I find it uninteresting, and that's ultimately how I felt about this title, uninterested.