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Jean-Pierre de Caussade, a French Jesuit spiritual director and writer born in the late seventeenth century, is best known for his belief in the sacredness of the present moment, or the “eternal now.” His masterpiece, Abandonment to Divine Providence, has been celebrated by spiritual writers as diverse as Richard Foster and Alan Watts for its ability to invoke the mystery of eternity in the now—a...

will we come to understand what God wants of us and be encouraged to seek the grace we need to implement it.30 Filter Seven. We should also keep in mind that the treatise teaches that the “way of abandonment” is for everyone, not a select few. In this respect, the author is a popular missionary, since he understands abandonment as a way of sanctity to which all are called, most especially “the smallest of the kingdom.” As a universal means to holiness, “the way of abandonment” must adapt to the needs
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