Rascal Gets Blessed - St.Francis Day Blessing of the Animals

Morgan Mandel's video of her dog, Rascal, at the Blessing of the Animals , Oct. 3, 2007, for St. Francis Day, at Holy Family Catholic Church (parking lot), Woodruff, WI.
Father Jim Hoffman, presider, Sister Francine, organizer. Morgan's husband, Paul, holding Rascal. Also in attendance were the dogs, Muffin, Stewart, and many others, plus, Dawson, the horse.

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[headcookbw]

That's lovely. I am from a Franciscan parish and we celebrate the transidus of Saint Francis on 3rd October, his feast day on the 4th and have our pets blessed on the Sunday after. My cat has been very sick and began to recover after his blessing.

Thank you for this video. One happy horse!

[morganmandel]

I'm glad you like the video and am glad your cat is doing better. We enjoy going to the Blessing of the Animals each year while on vacation and sometimes are lucky enough to get to the Blessing at our own parish when we get home. This year the dates were not in our favor.

When we adopted Rascal we discovered she was congenitally deaf, but she gets along fine, probably because she doesn't know the difference.

[dracodormiensnunc]

This is lovely!

[blundmountain]

Morgan:

I really enjoyed that and I hope Loreen [wife] who is Catholic gets to see this. Sometimes she does not see the same things.

We have 6 cats and 2 dogs, sure would be great!