Michaelmas is not a well-known feast day of the church, but it is one that our family adopted, along with Candlemas, St. Nicholas Day, and Santa Lucia Day, to celebrate in our own family context. We tended to have activities planned for St. Nicholas Day and Santa Lucia Day, but Candlemas and Michaelmas were simply in our remembrance. We called our house, Candlemas and meant for it to be a kind of sacred and peaceful place. We had read Thomas Howard’s book, “Hallowed Be This House” (long out of print now) and were very much influenced by it.
Michaelmas represented a dream for us as the name of a community, a commune of our old age in “the autumn of our lives” just as Michaelmas announces the fall. Whether this dream is ever realized or not, I still have this day in my eternal consciousness. This video is for my family on Michaelmas Day. It is my way of loving them from a great distance.
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