May your love, my Lord, cause me to be loosened from the world without resistance, and may pains and disease not constrain me to go out from it involuntarily. Because the one whose intellect is set free from it, the angels compel to remain in the world until his time comes. And the one who is ensnared by it, they lead from the world in torment and afflictions. How pleasant is the departure of your friends to You, O Good One! But how hard is the setting out from the world for all its own, because your friends depart towards their inheritance and these are deprived of what is theirs. (L24)