What should occupy our thoughts when we come to leave this world?

In the midst of her pain, the martyr St. Julia of Corsica did not think of herself, but of the salvation of her persecutors, praying: “May You be blessed, my God and Master Jesus Christ, who made me worthy to die just like You and for Your sake, crucified upon the wood of a cross … I ask You, O my God, by the right of Your pure and precious blood, to look upon this people sitting in the darkness of death with the eyes of Your mercy; to forgive them and to shine upon them with the light of faith in You.”