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Sacrament of the present moment

Abandonment to God’s will as it comes in each moment, in the spirituality attributed to Jean-Pierre de Caussade.

Also: abandonment to divine providence

Christian mysticism

Abandonment to Divine Providence, attributed to the eighteenth-century Jesuit Jean-Pierre de Caussade, teaches that God’s will is given in each present moment and its duties and events, so that holiness consists in accepting and doing what each moment brings. The present moment is a sacrament through which God gives himself.