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

16 September

Cornelius
(c. 180–253)
Martyr, Pope
Cyprian
(c. 210–258)
Bishop
Edith of Wilton
(c. 961–c, 984)
Nun
Edward Bouverie Pusey
(1800–1882)
Controversionalist, Educator, Priest, Theologian, Tractarian
Euphemia
(c. 290– c. 305)
Martyr, Virgin
Ninian
(c. 360–c. 432)
Abbot-Bishop, Missionary
Victor III
(c. 1026–1087)
Abbot / ἡγούμενος, Cardinal Deacon, Cardinal Priest, Pope
Vitalis of Savigny
(c. 1060–1122)
Abbot / ἡγούμενος, Founder, Hermit, Preacher

When a razor has seen long service and refuses to hold an edge, the barber lays it away for a few weeks, and the edge comes back of its own accord. We bestow thoughtful care upon inanimate objects, but none upon ourselves. What a robust people, what a nation of thinkers we might be, if we would only lay ourselves on the shelf occasionally, and renew our edges!

Mark Twain (1835–1910)

American humourist, satirist, lecturer and writer

The Innocents Abroad (1869)