Hôtel Groslot, Orléans
Hôtel Groslot, 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

9 November

Agrippinus
(c. 300)
Bishop
Benignus of Armagh
(392–467)
Coadjutor Bishop
Henryk Hlebowicz
(1904–1941)
Educator, Martyr, Priest
Margery Kempe
(c. 1373–c. 1438)
Mystic, Pilgrim
Pabo Post Prydain
(474–530)
Abbot / ἡγούμενος
Symeon the Metaphrast
(c. 900–987)
Hagiographer, Hymnographer

In those lonely years of wrongheaded crushes, I used to ache for someone to know me all the way through, till the terrified boy in the closet was finally laid to rest. I realize now that I can’t entirely shake him. His sorrows and his wasted time still ambush me, the old scars bleeding again, sometimes even when I’m laughing in my lover’s arms.

Paul Monette (1945–1995)

American author, poet, and gay activist

Becoming a Man (1992)