It’s Michaelmas Day

For those of you not near your church bulletin, today is the feast of St. Michael the Archangel. It’s also known in England as Michaelmas Day. St. Michael is the patron saint of the sea and maritime lands, of ships and boatmen, of horses and horsemen. He was the Angel who hurled Lucifer down from Heaven for his offenses against God.

There’s a legend concerning Lucifer falling into a blackberry bush after being expelled from Heaven by St. Michael and spitting on the blackberries to make them bitter so that they cannot be picked after Michaelmas.

So kids, unless you want a mouthful of Satan’s saliva, don’t eat those blackberries tomorrow (unless you’re into that.)

And so it goes