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

27 October

Abbán
(c. 570–620)
Abbot / ἡγούμενος
Abraham the Poor
(c. 372)
Hermit
Frumentius
(c. 383)
First Bishop
Odrán
(548)
Abbot / ἡγούμενος

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)