Jean-Pierre de Caussade, French Jesuit, author of “Abandonment to Divine Providence” d March 6 1751. In brief, he outlines the path to holiness that lies in the performance of our everyday tasks and duties. Every moment, a gift from God, bears the stamp of God’s will for us.
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Caussade speaks of the “sacrament of the present moment”: each moment a veil or shadow behind which the will of God awaits our discernment. To live in this consciousness is to awaken to the sacred depths of our existence. Acceptance of what God sends us in the present moment is
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... the “mustard seed, almost too small to be recognized or harvested, the treasure no one finds, as it is thought to be too well hidden to be looked for. What is the secret of finding this treasure? There isn’t one. It is everywhere, offered to us all the time, wherever we are.”
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