Hôtel Groslot, Orléans
Hôtel Groslot, Orléans
“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

11 June

Barnabas
(c. 61)
Apostle, Martyr
Ignatius Shoukrallah Maloyan
(1869–1915)
Archbishop, Martyr
Paula Frassinetti
(1809–1882)
Educator, Founder, Nun, Virgin
Rosa Francisca Dolors Molas Vallvé
(1815–1876)
Founder, Nun, Virgin

Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lost of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

Robert F. Kennedy (1925–1968)

American politician and United States Attorney General (1961-1964)

Speech given on Day of Affirmation, South Africa (1966)