Category: Part 3: The Sanctification of Time

Austin Leduc About the Author: Austin Leduc (b. 2001, Cornwall, Ontario) is Roman Catholic and an aspiring canonist. He holds an Honours Bachelor of Arts with a Major in Theology and a Minor in Human Relations and Spirituality from Saint Paul University, Ottawa (2024), graduating summa cum laude. His primary interest in Theology is Scriptural Theology…

Holly Pierlot About the author: Holly Pierlot is a mother of five, grandmother of eleven (and counting) who lives in Prince Edward Island. Holly has a Masters in Catholic Pastoral and Educational Studies from Maryvale Institute, Birmingham, England, and has spent her life as an out-of-the-box Catholic educator: from homeschooling children to tutoring children with…

Jean-Pierre de Caussade About the text: Jean-Pierre de Caussade (1675–1751) was a French Jesuit priest who wrote a series of letters to the superior of a convent in Nancy. It seems that his popular book Abandonment to Divine Providence—otherwise known as The Sacrament of the Present Moment—was compiled from those letters. In the book, Caussade presents the…

When Catholics think about the sanctification of time, they will typically think of the Breviary, the Liturgy of the Hours—the structured method of praying the psalms throughout the day. The praying of the psalms was a practice that began with the Jews but was continued by the earliest Christians. Christians would gather several times a…