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

14 September

Crescentius of Rome
(c. 292–c. 303)
Martyr
Louis Gabriel Taurin Dufresse
(1750–1815)
Bishop, Martyr, Vicar Apostolic
Notburga von Rattenberg
(c. 1265 – 1313)
Virgin

On the Boulevard des Batignolles last Sunday night was a bicyclist who (walking) turned three times to look at me, then vanished. For my part this was a love I will never forget. Unhad love is sweeter.

Ned Rorem (1923–2022)

American composer and diarist

The Paris Diary (1966)