All Angels Day
Today is Michaelmas, or St. Michaelmas Day. This holiday isn’t celebrated in the United States to my knowledge, but it is observed in England.
Michaelmas Day, the 29th of September, properly named the day of St. Michael and All Angels, is a great festival of the Church of Rome, and also observed as a feast by the Church of England. In England, it is one of the four quarterly terms, or quarter-days, on which rents are paid, and in that and other divisions of the United Kingdom, as well as perhaps in other countries, it is the day on which burgal magistracies and councils are re-elected. The only other remarkable thing connected with the day is a widely prevalent custom of marking it with a goose at dinner.
During medieval times, Michaelmas was a great religious feast and many popular traditions grew up around the day, which coincided with the harvest in much of Western Europe. The traditional Celtic feast consisted of eating goose, harvest vegetables, apples and blackberries. Traditionally, in Ireland, finding a ring hidden in a Michaelmas pie meant that one would soon be married.
Goose Day
Pumpkin Day
Coffee Day
Black Coffee
It grows on little bushes,
Not trees or even vine.
The bean needs to be roasted,
Then brewed into fine wine.
Colombia, does grow the best,
I like mine mountain grown.
No cream, no sugar in it,
Starbucks, yeech, I moan.
Just hot and fresh and in a cup,
I really like it black.
You keep your Cappuccino,
I’d want my money back.
Conspiracy Guy 11/04/03
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