Notre-Dame de Paris (Charles Desvergues)
Notre-Dame de Paris (Charles Desvergues)
“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 September

Antoine-Frédéric Ozanam
(1813–1853)
Founder, Spiritual Writer
Charles Fuge Lowder
(1820–1880)
Deacon, Founder, Priest
Ciarán of Clonmacnoise
(516–549)
Abbot / ἡγούμενος
Isaac of Armenia
(c. 354–c. 439-441)
Joseph Volotsky
(1440–1515)
Abbot / ἡγούμενος
Peter Claver
(1581–1654)
Missionary, Priest

During that initial visit to Alice Toklas, I saw on her walls a pair of Picassos unknown to me. When I remarked on their unusual beauty, Miss Toklas replied, “Yes, Gertrude always used to say: if the house were on fire and I could only take one picture, it would be those two.”

Ned Rorem (1923–2022)

American composer and diarist

The Later Diaries (1974)