Place de Pyramides, Paris (Daniel Frémiet)
Place de Pyramides, Paris (Daniel Frémiet)
“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

I think that I shall never seeA billboard lovely as a treeIndeed, unless the billboards fallI’ll never see a tree at all.

Ogden Nash (1902–1971)

American humourist and poet

“Song of the Open Road”—Many Long Years Ago (1945)