From Deacon Ron Reno:
May your week be blessed with the beautiful change to cooler weather and 
the start of the season of fall. With the autumnal equinox just starting, we can look forward to the landscape to be exploding with vibrant colors and seeing pumpkins everywhere. We had our Harvest full moon last week; our Harvest moon was also a super-moon that was bright and beautiful. It is a fantastic time of year to explore the outdoors and take a moment to thank God for the beauty around us. We get to enjoy most of God’s palette because He is the greatest of all artists and His creation is ours to enjoy. I would suggest doing EP outside as a change of pace. I did MP in the Rockies this summer and found it most gratifying.
Saint Michael is one of the principal angelic warriors, protector against the dark of the night and the Archangel who fought against Lucifer and his evil angels. The roots of Michaelmas is traced back to a fifth century. Pope Gelasius established this feast and it is on our Liturgical calendar. Saint Michael’s name has the deep meaning of ”Who is like God. ”
God willing Father Andrews and Anneliese will be here Saturday. We need to pray for traveling mercies for them. God willing we will have the Feast of Saint Michael and All Angels (Michaelmas) this weekend. It is also associated with the beginning of Autumn. We won’t be eating the fattened goose as they do in the British Isles; but they say in England “Eat a goose on Michaelmas Day, Want not money all the year.” That may have worked for Queen Elizabeth I in the late 1500’s, but hard work and a belief in God does it for us Americans.
Michaelmas serves as a reminder of our fight against the ongoing evil forces we face daily. We need to look at Saint Michael to be our intercessor for the many spiritual battles we face. Saint Michael is spoken of twice in the OT and twice in the NT and the patron saint of many.
LORD, we pray thee that thy grace may always prevent and follow us, and make us continually to be given to all good works; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Collect for the Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity. God bless, Deacon