Two community churches are holding Blessing services for our animals this year.
On Sunday, October 4 at 3:00pm the Good Shepherd Episcopal Church at141 Church St. in Cooleemee is conducting a Blessing service. Several of our adoption center pets will be in attendance. Refreshments provided, including the animals!
Also on Sunday, October 4 at 4:00PM the Church of the Ascension at Fork will celebrate the role of pets in our lives in the tradition of St. Francis of Assisi. Each animal present receives a blessing and a treat. Pet owners feel equally blessed. The church is located off of 64 East on Fork-Bixby Road. Plan on attending one of these touching services with your whole family, 2- and 4-legged.
The Prayer attributed to St. Francis:
Lord, make us instruments of your peace. Where there is hatred, let us sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is discord, union; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy. Grant that we may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen