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Suppose you won the lottery and you're singing a line from the Bob Dylan song, "Well I don't want to work on Maggie's farm no more!"

What are you going to do? What are retired people doing with the little time they have left on Earth before they face the music?

Some are playing bingo or bowls or bridge or golf or the stockmarket. Others are making yet another tropical island paradise sunset tour.

Some are gardening or bushwalking or doing the picturesque pilgrim preamble from Lourdes to Compostella.

Others, to borrow Hugh McKay's words in his book Advance Australia Where? "have joined the swelling ranks of the so-called Grey Nomads on the highways of Australia, keeping their distance from the problems, irritations and uncertainties of a society in transition."

Others still, the angels among us, are volunteering, such as helping those reduced by infirmity to gaping at a flickering futureless image box until DNR/DNI the black hole flatlines, from incarceration to incineration, telly for jelly and your pills for free.

Hugh McKay wrote: "We might be coming out of the dreamy period simply because it's time. If that's what's happening, whatever the cause, the 'big picture' will once again come into focus and we will be prepared to listen more attentively to the voices of activists, artists, provocateurs...We might also find that home renovations have not in the end satisfied our quest for the meaning of life...What are we here for? In the world today 1% owns 50% of the assets. The income of the 300 top salary earners surpasses the combined income of half the world's population."

The unprepared soul is like the rich investor who enjoys fat and steady profits from his "uncovered short spreads" until one day a great tremor rocks the market.

Here are two questions for the world's richest man, Warren Buffett, personal net worth $100 billion.

Is it clever to forfeit the riches of Heaven for something less, the mere temporary wealth and pleasures of this world?

And if you're not sure Heaven exists, why not do the simple Miraculous Medal Test and find out to your own satisfaction?

This simple test (see below) brings the gift of faith.

Any sincere seeker of the truth will discover that Heaven does exist, and Jesus, and his Queen Mother, the Virgin Mary, and the angels and saints--that it's true, the whole thing, all true as was divinely revealed and taught by the late great Church.

The man who has everything but does not have a reasonably based hope of Heaven really has nothing.

Faith is a gift. What better place to nourish that gift than in a monastery? What better retirement village than the Abbey?

Surprisingly, there is not a single Gregorian chant style monastery or convent abbey in the whole of Australia.

Calling young and old, calling all retirees, calling all benefactors!

Register your interest in building Heaven's anteroom herebelow Downunder.