Quote by Jean Pierre de Caussade
“Ésta es, pues, la regla, el método, la ley, la vía pura, sencilla y segura de esta alma: una ley invariable, que está vigente en todo tiempo, lugar y circunstancia de vida. Es una línea recta, por la que el alma camina valiente y fielmente, sin desviarse a derecha o a izquierda, y sin ocuparse de otra cosa. Y todo lo que vaya más allá de esto es recibido por ella pasivamente y realizado en el abandono. Es decir, es activa en todo lo que viene prescrito por el deber presente, y es, en cambio, pasiva y abandonada en todo lo demás, en lo que no hace nada por sí misma, sino acoger en paz la moción divina. No hay camino espiritual que sea más seguro que esta sencilla vía, ni que sea tan claro y fácil, tan amable y tan libre de errores e ilusiones.”
topics: abandono , aquí-y-ahora , discernimiento , espiritualidad , ley , mociones , pasividad , presente , rectitud , sencillez
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Jean Pierre de Caussade S.J. was a French Catholic Jesuit writer known for his work Abandonment to Divine Providence (also translated as The Sacrament of the Present Moment) and his posthumously-published letters of instruction to the Nuns of the Visitation at Nancy, where he spiritual director from 1733-1740, although he continued to write the sisters after leaving Nancy.
While he is best known for his work with the sisters, he also spent years as preacher in southern and central France, as a college rector (at Perpignan and at Albi) and as the director of theological students at the Jesuit house in Toulouse. Caussade is remembered for, among other things, his belief that the present moment is a sacrament from God and that self-abandonment to it and its needs is a holy state - a belief which, at first glance, would appear to be heretical relative to Catholic dogma. In fact, because of this fear (especially with the Church's condemnation of the Quietiest movement), Caussade's instructions to the sisters were kept unpublished until 1861, and even then they were edited to protect them from charges of Quietism. A more authoritative version of these notes was published only in 1966. It is clear in his writings that he is aware of the Quietists and that he rejects their perspective.