Jeanne d'Arc (Historiated initial depicting Joan of Arc from Archives Nationales, Paris, AE II 2490, poss. 15th cent)
Jeanne d’Arc (Historiated initial depicting Joan of Arc from Archives Nationales, Paris, AE II 2490, poss. 15th cent)
“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

5 October

Alberto Marvelli
(1918–1946)
Anna Schäffer
(1882–1925)
Mystic, Stigmatist
Faustina Kowalska
(1905–1938)
Mystic, Nun, Spiritual Writer, Stigmatist, Virgin
Galla of Rome
(c. 550)
Widow
Luigi Scrosoppi da Udine
(1804–1884)
Founder, Priest, Tertiary
Marian Skrzypczak
(1909–1939)
Martyr, Priest

…It is nothing more than a bit of nostalgia that makes my heart beat slower–nostalgia for those rooms of lovely lights and lovelier shadows and loveliest people. And I really have no room for the sweet, soft feeling. Nor am I honest, perhaps, in referring to it. For it is the sort of nostalgia that is only a dreamy longing for some places where you never were. And, I never will be there. There is no such hour on the present clock as 6:30, New York time. Yet, as only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you’ll live through the night.

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)

American writer and poet

“New York at 6:30 pm: John Koch and his Glorious People”—Esquire (November 1964)