Jeanne d'Arc (Historiated initial depicting Joan of Arc from Archives Nationales, Paris, AE II 2490, poss. 15th cent)
Jeanne d’Arc (Historiated initial depicting Joan of Arc from Archives Nationales, Paris, AE II 2490, poss. 15th cent)
“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

26 April

Anacletus {Cletus}
(c. 89)
Martyr, Pope
Franca di Piacenza
(1170–1218)
Abbess
Giovanni Battista Piamarta
(1841–1913)
Catechist, Founder, Missionary, Priest
Marcellinus
(304)
Martyr, Pope

On the street I was stopped by a man with a clipboard who wanted to interview me. I had a feeling he was an Irish Scientologist. “If you could be anywhere you wanted to be, where would you be?””Right here,” I said. “That’s why I’m here, because I want to be.”He scampered away without taking any notes.

David W. McFadden (1940–2018)

Canadian poet, fiction writer, and travel writer

An Innocent in Ireland (1995)