Sant Salvador de Cervera
Sant Salvador de Cervera
“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

One writes out of one thing only — one’s own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give. This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art.

James Baldwin (1924–1987)

American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic

“Autobiographical Notes”—Notes of a Native Son (1955)