Notre-Dame de Paris (Charles Desvergues)
Notre-Dame de Paris (Charles Desvergues)
“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

23 July

Apollinaris
(c. 79)
First Bishop, Martyr
Bridget of Sweden
(1302–1373)
Founder, Mystic, Virgin, Widow
Giovanna da Orvieto
(1264–1306)
Virgin, Visionary
John Cassian
(c. 360–433)
Deacon
Krystyn Gondek
(1909–1942)
Friar, Martyr, Priest

Then came days of depression, when I huddled in my armchair empty as a burst paper-bag–turning the leaves of The Constant Nymph or The Boy in the Bush, dreaming miserably of the Tirol, of Australia, hating my life, knowing I should never escape, and then comforting myself by ordering a double portion of buttered toast.

Christopher Isherwood (1904–1986)

Anglo-American writer

Lions and Shadows (1938)