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

30 June

Erentrude of Salzburg
(7th cent.–718)
Abbess / ἡγουμένη
Martial
(3rd cent.)
Bishop
Ramon Llull
(c. 1232–1315/1316)
Apologist, Missionary, Mystic, Tertiary, Theologian
Theobald of Provins
(1017–1066)
Hermit, Monk, Pilgrim

Well, I’m sitting here on the verandah with a gin-and-tonic, as Isak Dinesen might have done, writing to you. Here’s to all the children who grow up without their fathers. The world is full of us…and some of us have managed anyhow!

Alice Walker (1944– )

American author and feminist

The Temple of My Familiar (1989)