Sant Salvador de Cervera
Sant Salvador de Cervera
“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 August

Felim
(6th cent.)
First Bishop
Mary Sumner
(1828–1921)
Social Reformer
Nath Í of Achonry
(6th/7th cent.)
Priest
Teresia Benedicta a Cruce
(1891–1942)
Martyr, Nun

Once in my nervousness, like many an oaf, I started clapping before the piece was over–and the piece was my own.

Ned Rorem (1923–2022)

American composer and diarist

“Being Ready”—Setting The Tone: Essays and a Diary (1984)