{"id":1807,"date":"2010-10-04T07:11:46","date_gmt":"2010-10-04T14:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/?p=1807"},"modified":"2010-10-09T10:57:56","modified_gmt":"2010-10-09T17:57:56","slug":"the-glorious-month-of-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/the-glorious-month-of-october","title":{"rendered":"The Glorious Month of October"},"content":{"rendered":"

October is my favorite month. In what other month of the year can you kick through leaves, watch post-season baseball and cheer high school football? October is glorious. But don’t take my word for it. Here’s what Ray Bradbury has to say about October:<\/p>\n

First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys. Not that all months aren\u2019t rare. But there be good and \"Octoberbad, as the pirates say. Take September, a bad month: school begins. Consider August, a good month: school hasn\u2019t begun yet. July, well July\u2019s really fine: there\u2019s no chance in the world for school. June, no doubting it, June\u2019s best of all, for the school doors spring wide and September\u2019s a billion years away.<\/p>\n

But you take October, now. School\u2019s been on a month and you\u2019re riding easier in the reins, jogging along. You got time to think of the garbage you\u2019ll dump on Old Man Prickett\u2019s portch, or the hairy-ape costume you\u2019ll wear to the YMCA the last night of the month. And if it\u2019s around October twentieth and everything smoky-smelling and the sky orange and ash gray at twilight, it seems Halloween will never come in a fall of broomsticks and a soft flap of bedsheets around corners. — Something Wicked This Way Comes<\/em><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In addition to beautiful autumn leaves, moderate temperatures, and baseball playoffs, October brings with it some towering models of faith for us to contemplate. If there’s a month with more outstanding saints than October, then I’d be mighty surprised. October celebrates some of the greatest saints in Catholic history, which is another reason it’s my favorite month of the year:<\/p>\n