What Legacy?

By T.M. Moore - Posted at The Fellowship of Ailbe:

What legacy are you working to establish?

Instead of Your fathers shall be Your sons,
Whom You shall make princes in all the earth.
I will make Your name to be remembered in all generations;
Therefore the people shall praise You forever and ever.
- Psalm 45.16, 17 

The northern land shone,
the western people blazed,
he lit up the east
with chaste clerics.
Good the legacy of God’s angel
when he glorified him.
- Dallán Forgaill, Amra Choluimb Chille, Irish, 6th century[1]

Not a few people these days are worried about the economy. They’re concerned that they won't be able to retire as soon as they’d planned, or that they won’t have much of a legacy to leave their children after they’re gone.

It’s good to be mindful of such things, and to make sound preparations. Be we should think a bit more about this – about legacy, I mean. What will we leave behind when this earthly life is done? Only material blessings and (hopefully) fond memories?

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