If we were to learn from the celebration of the paschal mystery to surrender our lives totally to God in Christ, the death of the Christian would be but the further and final rehearsal of a pattern learned in life and practiced over and over again in a lifetime of liturgical participation…. For those who have learnt from the prayers and rituals of the Christian liturgy how to let go of all that we cling to, to save ourselves from the void, the final surrender of death will be a familiar and joyous sacrifice.[Mark Searle, Notre Dame, 1979] !
