Place de Pyramides, Paris (Daniel Frémiet)
Place de Pyramides, Paris (Daniel Frémiet)
“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

19 December

Anastasius I
(c. 340–402)
Pope
Berardo da Pagliara
(1123)
Bishop
Maria Marta od Jezusa Wołowska
(1879–1942)
Martyr, Nun, Virgin
Meuris & Thea
(c. 307)
Martyrs, Virgins
Samthann of Clonbroney
(739)
Abbess / ἡγουμένη
Urban V
(1310–1370)
Abbot / ἡγούμενος, Pope

I wish I could manage to be glad! Only I never can remember the rules.

Lewis Carroll (1832–1898)

English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican clergyman and photographer

“White Queen”—Through the Looking Glass–and What Alice Found There (1871)