Sundays at All Hallows (September 20, 2026)
Welcome to Sundays at All Hallows. This Sunday, September 20, 2026, is the Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity. Tuesday, September 22, is the Autumn Equinox and the first day of Fall. It is also Hobbit Day, a holiday declared by the American Tolkien Society in 1978 and observed by fans of hobbits and J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings . Tolkien was an Oxford don, a professor of Anglo-Saxon and English Literature. He was also a devout Catholic. While The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings are not Christian allegories, they do reflect the influence of Tolkien’s faith, particularly the conflict between good and evil that is central both to The Hobbit and the LOTR trilogy. Saturday, September 26 is the peak of the Harvest Moon, the full moon closest to the Autumn Equinox. In the British Isles harvest festivals are celebrated in September or October, according to local tradition. These celebrations are variously called Harvest Festival, Harvest Home, Harvest Thanksgiving or H...
