Basilique Saint-Denis
Basilique Saint-Denis
“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

14 August

Arnold of Soissons
(c. 1040–1087)
Abbot / ἡγούμενος, Bishop, Monk
Eusebius of Rome
(357)
Confessor
Martyrs of Otranto: Antonio Primaldo and his companion martyrs
(1480)
813 Inhabitants of the City of Otranto
Maximilian Maria Kolbe
(1894–1941)
Martyr, Priest
Werenfried
(c. 780)
Missionary, Monk

Love is one of the emotions like all the others–and so it is all right whilst you feel it. But I can’t see how it becomes an absolute. It is just part of human relationships, no more. And it is only part of any human relationship. And why one should be required always to feel it any more than one always feels sorrow or distant joy. I cannot conceive. Love isn’t a desideratum–it is an emotion you feel or don’t feel, according to circumstance.

D. H. Lawrence (1885–1930)

English author

Sons and Lovers (1913)