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

19 March

Cliaman
(1258)
Bishop, Friar
John
(6th cent.)
Abbot / ἡγούμενος, Hermit
Joseph
(1st cent.)
Lachtain of Freshford
(c. 622)
Abbot / ἡγούμενος
Marcel Callo
(1921–1944)
Layperson, Martyr
Narcyz Turchan
(1879–1942)
Friar, Priest

If you, my dear father, will not take the trouble of checking her exuberant spirits, and of teaching her that her present pursuits are not to be the business of her life, she will soon be beyond the reach of amendment. Her character will be fixed, and she will, at sixteen, be the most determined flirt that ever made herself and her family ridiculous.

Jane Austin (1775–1817)

English novelist

Pride and Prejudice (1813)