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You Are Invited!

BLESSING OF THE ANIMALS 2022

Date: Sunday, October 9         When: 4 PM

St. Francis of Assisi is especially associated with reverence for nature and a love of animals. Services of prayer and blessing for animals are often connected to his October 4 feast day, commemorating the life of St Francis, who was born in the 12th century.  St Francis died on October 4, 1226, and Pope Gregory IX pronounced him a Saint in 1228.

This special service is an opportunity to give thanks to God for the special animals in our lives and to ask for His blessing on them.

Get your pets ready for an outing where we will come together for a special Blessing of the Animals Service to give thanks to God for the creatures that bless our lives.

Plan to attend with your animal companions (appropriately restrained or crated, of course!). If they don’t play well with others bring their photographs.

We’ll meet in the parking lot behind the Parish House.

In case of inclement weather, ample space is available inside the Parish House Fellowship Hall.

Please join us on October 9!

“Why am I a member of Westminster Presbyterian Church?  Two words keep  floating up in a rather persistent way  –  “home” and  “family” – and I realized that it is an inescapable fact that is what this church means to me. During my 40 years here, so many life events have happened and Westminster has been there for me through all those times – good and bad.    It has been my home and family.  They say “home is where the heart is” and I’ve found the heart of Westminster to be as open and warm as a family’s!”