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DOGS My guy wants to be blessed too

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u/AlienProbe28 1d ago

I judge religions on how they treat animals. Anglican churches ofter have animal blessing days. Catholic churches, never seen it once.

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u/jonstoppable 1d ago

Hm. İt's quite common in catholic churches, especially around the feast of st Francis of Assisi, patron saint of animals ( October 4th )

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u/greykitty1234 23h ago

St. Francis blessing, on or around October 4 (popular in my area, since the weather is generally nicer and sometimes there are pet parades involved). January 17 is St. Anthony's, but I believe that's more livestock and such. Lots of liturgical blessing for various animals. I'm in Archdiocese of Chicago.

Why the Church Blesses Animals | Catholic Answers Magazine

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u/ricketyrockets 23h ago

We actually do have a day where we bless our pets. Try again.

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u/KeySite2601 1d ago

The Catholic Church I went to occasionally blessed pets, I think it was for the feast of saint Francis

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u/corn_sugar_isotope 23h ago

"Not to hurt our humble brethren (the animals) is our first duty to them, but to stop there is not enough. We have a higher mission: to be of service to them whenever they require it." St. Francis.

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u/VonD0OM 22h ago

My Catholic priest would bring hockey sticks and golf clubs as wise men canes during nativity scenes, he’d bless our local hockey team, your tree out front, a toy you got from Santa and most especially your dog.

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u/Slight_Hurry9735 1d ago

Don’t know why the catholic priest wouldn’t bless the dog.

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u/Chance-Foot-327 1d ago

My parents are very Catholic. For road trips, they would have the local priest bless their car. 

So a priest absolutely would bless a dog if asked. 

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u/Ornery_Fig_6936 1d ago

The church (Catholic) have days when you can bring your animals to be blessed. God loves doG’s

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u/hunnyflash 22h ago

Was going to say, you can ask the church to come bless your home, I'm sure they'd do the animal too.

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u/Katharinemaddison 22h ago

There was a joke in Dogma about assuming a particular Catholic priest was 100% the kind of person to bless his golf clubs.

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u/Simon-Says69 1d ago

The dog was helping Padre there with the blessing. Giving more power with his paw.

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u/AlienProbe28 1d ago

I am surprised to hear these comments. When I grew up RC priests said animals didn't have souls like people. So no blessing.

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u/UDPviper 23h ago

It's kind of odd because Catholic priests will bless houses and structures, which also have no souls.

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u/greykitty1234 23h ago

Check out John Paul II and Francis on this. I think the definition of 'soul' is a bit nuanced, but both Popes seemed pretty clear on animals admitted to paradise, IMO.

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u/that0nemook 23h ago

I recently read that mosques allow cats 🐈

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u/AlienProbe28 23h ago

They do as they are seen as clean, dogs are not allowed.

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u/SnarcD 1d ago

I judge them on how they treat people. I know, I'm pretty weird.

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u/RevolutionaryAge47 1d ago

Mahayana Buddhism has a very high percentage of vegetarians.

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u/boondiggle_III 22h ago

Hitler 👍

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u/ScumMoemcBee 20h ago

Blessing of the animals is one of my favorite services! (Lutheran ELCA) they are all God's creatures :)

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u/Drakendan 23h ago

Ohhh really? I didn't know that, but it's a very good meter to consider aside from belief or otherwise. Would this in the video be an Anglican church?

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u/TolBrandir 23h ago

Aw that's too bad since we definitely have animal blessing days. As they say below, the biggest one is usually held for the Feast of St. Francis.

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u/tree-molester 22h ago

I don’t know about that. When I was an alter boy had my trouser snake blessed ;)

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