Blessing of the Pets

[47of74]

Being the feast day of St. Francis of Assisi, it's time for the blessing of the pets;

"Blessed are you, Lord God, maker of all living creatures. You called forth fish in the sea, birds in the air and animals on the land. You inspired St. Francis to call all of them his brothers and sisters. We ask you to bless this pet. By the power of your love, enable it to live according to your plan. May we always praise you for all your beauty in creation. Blessed are you, Lord our God, in all your creatures! Amen."

Lord, I'd like to take a moment and ask your blessings for my fur nieces and nephew;

TK


Maggie


Marvel

[Freddie]

1. My church does this

This year we are setting up a booth at our town's Fall Festival with info about our church and our pastor will do pet blessings. Since cats don't like car rides I will wish blessings on Freddie, Riley, Samantha and Jake myself.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

2. I took my two dogs to the Episcopal Church down the street for the blessing

They took a picture and said it would be on the parish website. I will link the picture to this thread when it becomes available.

[Granny M]

3. Blessings on all our beloved animals.

They are such blessings to us.

[Rhiannon12866]

4. My mother always made me bring my dogs to church for the blessing.

That was fun.

[shenmue]

6. I brought my parakeets one year!

[Rhiannon12866]

7. Very cool! And probably better behaved in church than the dogs...

[shenmue]

8. Squee!

[Rhiannon12866]

9. Actually, the dogs were pretty well behaved in church.

I thought it was pretty courageous of the priest, to have pews full of pets.

[shenmue]

5. We thank you, O Ceiling Cat, for teh Squee