Animal Blessing

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Please join the Compassion Consortium for an animal blessing ceremony as we celebrate World Animal Day and the feast day of St. Francis.

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Welcome to Compassion Consortium's Animal Blessing Ceremony!Please join us on Friday, October 4 at 7:30 PM Eastern time, for a virtual animal blessing ceremony as we celebrate World Animal Day and the feast day of St. Francis.If you’d like a blessing for the animals in your life, an animal that has passed on, the animals in nature, or the animals who are exploited for human use, we will be offering blessings for them. You are welcome to have your animal companion with you or to bring a photo of the animal or animals you’d like to be blessed. As always with the Compassion Consortium, this event is open to all people of all faiths, and the animals who are loved by them.For centuries, October 4 has been known as the feast day of St. Francis of Assisi, one of the Catholic church’s patron saints of animals. Francis became known as the patron saint of animals because of several miracles he performed involving animals, and also because of the stories contained in the books by Thomas of Celano, a friend of Francis and his earliest biographer. In addition to the miracles, Thomas related many examples of Francis’s great and all-encompassing love for animals, along with Francis’s conviction that religious faith and care for God’s creatures go hand-in-hand.In 1979, Pope John Paul II awarded St. Francis an additional honor, making him patron saint of the environment.World Animal Day, created in 1925 by Heinrich Zimmerman to raise the awareness of animals and to improve their welfare, has evolved in recent years to also address problems of endangered species as well as those animals who are exposed to environmental devastation. The day serves to remind us that we are caretakers of all animals and living beings, in addition to the animals who share our homes.

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