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

12 November

Aemilian
(472–573)
Hermit, Priest
Astrik
(c. 1035)
First Archbishop
John V Eleemon
(c. 550–619)
Patriarch
Josaphat Kuntsevych
(c. 1580–1623)
Archbishop, Martyr
Livinus
(c. 580–657)
Bishop, Martyr, Missionary, Preacher
Machar
(c. 540)
Bishop, Missionary
Nilus of Sinai
(4th cent.–c. 430/451)
Bishop

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)