20,000+ Hours Before God: What Fulton Sheen's Schedule Reveals About Formation

Archbishop Fulton Sheen kept a daily holy hour for more than 60 years, beginning at St. Paul Seminary in Minnesota in 1918. The arithmetic of that commitment — over 20,000 hours before the Blessed Sacrament — is less a biographical footnote than a theory of how character is actually built. What a person protects in their schedule is what they actually believe about what matters.