Cathédrale Sainte-Croix d'Orléans
Cathédrale Sainte-Croix d’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

10 May

Antoninus of Florence
(1389–1459)
Archbishop
Calepodius
(232)
Martyr, Priest
Catald
(c. 685)
Bishop
Comgall of Bangor
(c. 510-520–597/602)
Abbot / ἡγούμενος, Missionary
John of Avila
(1500–1569)
Missionary, Priest
Solange
(9th cent.–c. 880)
Martyr, Virgin

Artists don’t seek reasons. They are all by definition children, and vice versa. Like children, alas, they are always showing you rough drafts.

Ned Rorem (1923–2022)

American composer and diarist

The New York Diary (1967)