“We are invited to the feast of life.  Let us enter without fear.  Let us offer the Lord the homage of our joy and confidence, the liturgy of our laughter.  Life is a great adventure; the darkness of the future is the necessary space for the exercise of our liberty and faith.  We go to the Father, all together, children of God, brothers and sisters of Christ, heads high, with an unshakable confidence and joy that no one can take from us.  In this light all our little upsets and difficulties have small importance, they are beneath the dignity of a Christian.” A Carthusian