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

3 October

Ewald the Black
(c. 692)
Martyr, Missionary, Priest
Ewald the Fair
(c. 692)
Martyr, Missionary, Priest
Gérard de Brogne
(c. 895– 959)
Abbot / ἡγούμενος
Josef Mayr-Nusser
(1910–1945)
Layperson, Martyr
Theodora Guérin
(1798–1865)
Educator, Nun, Superior General

Longing at once to be guiltless and guilty, passive and active, ravished in flesh and dominating in mind, I simply never get laid.

Ned Rorem (1923–2022)

American composer and diarist

“Paris in the Spring”—Setting The Tone: Essays and a Diary (1984)