Sacré-Coeur, Montmartre (H. Lefébvre)
Sacré-Coeur, Montmartre (H. Lefébvre)
“Si je n’y suis [en la grâce de Dieu], Dieu m’y mette; et, si j’y suis, Dieu m’y tienne! Je serais le plus dolente de monde si je savais ne pas être en la grâce de Dieu”
— Jeanne d’Arc

Today’s Feast Days

4 February

Andrew Corsini
(1302–1374)
Bishop
Gemolus
(11th cent.)
Martyr, Pilgrim
Gilbert of Sempringham
(1083–1189/90)
Canon regular, Founder
Joan of France
(1464–1505)
Founder
John de Brito
(1647–1693)
Martyr, Missionary
Joseph of Leonessa
(1556–1612)
Missionary

Education authorities, as opposed to teachers, … do in fact sacrifice the children to what they consider the good of the State by teaching them “patriotism,” i.e., a willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

Bertrand Russell (1872–1970)

British philosopher, historian, logician, mathematician, advocate for social reform, pacifist, and prominent rationalist

“Freedom in Society”—Sceptical Essays (1928)