Place du Martroi, Orléans
Place du Martroi, 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

27 May

Augustine
(605)
First Archbishop
Julius the Veteran
(255–c. 304)
Martyr
Melangell
(7th cent.–8th cent.)
Abbess / ἡγουμένη, Hermit, Virgin

…lessons learned from an experience apply to that experience, not experience generically. We always repeat out mistakes. Sometimes they turn out correctly.

Ned Rorem (1923–2022)

American composer and diarist

attributed to Denise Bourdet—The Later Diaries (1974)