Become What Your Are
Become What You Are, by the Belgian Philosopher Marcel De Corte and his wife Marie, tells the story of their son Leon who died at age 18 after a long illness.
“Dying young is no misfortune for one who has filled his short days with eternity. What counts the most, to live or to last?”
This book recipient of the Catholic Writer’s Prize in Belgium recounts the story of Leon de Corte (1937-1955). His life, plagued by illness from the age of 11, was nevertheless one of profound joy. Hoping to show to youth today the secret of living well Marcel and Marie de Cortes “have put their entire heart into this treasure. Hoping that in this age where youth is so threatened, the memory of their son will “reveal the secret of a life and death entirely dedicated to communion.”
“We wish to offer them a model. a simple robust model without any blandness, as young as they are and just as eager for communion, and who found its source in self, in that abyss that every soul contains and in which it sees, if it has the courage to go down into it, that ‘every creature is all of creation’ and refers to the Creator.”