Just curious.......

[RustyRatRod]

I'm not trying to get a big religious discussion goin. I just wanna know if any of yall have ever heard of this before?

We got this little Methodist church right down the road. It's over 100 years old. They got this tradition once a year where they have an "animal blessing" Sunday. People bring animals of all kinds. House animals, farm animals, you name it to have them blessed. It takes the whole service....and then some. It's really not as nutty as it sounds....it's kinda cool.

I was just wonderin if any of yall had ever heard of that before.

 

[cudajunction]

Nope im guessing Alabama or West Virginia.

 

[Classy67]

There's a Catholic church here in Wisconsin that does the same thing. Ya, it's way cool.

 

[64 Post]

I give blessings to my animals too... right before I cut them into bite size pieces and mix 'em up with some mashed taters and gravy.

 

[Meep-Meep]

Nope, never hoid of that.

 

[Ron 73]

X 2

 

[Meep-Meep]

You know, I have hoid of that but forgot I did (getting old I guess). I was looking through old emails and saw this was sent by the priest from my church:

Saint Blaise
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

For other uses, see Saint Blaise (disambiguation). Saint Blaise

Saint Blaise confronting the Roman governor-scene from a stained glass window from the area ofSoissons (Picardy, France), early 13th century.

Hieromartyr, Holy Helper

Born
Sebastea

Died
c. 316MN

Honored in
Roman Catholic Church
Eastern Orthodox Churches
Armenian Apostolic Church
Eastern Catholic Churches

Feast
January 16 (Armenian Apostolic)
February 3 (Roman Catholic)
February 11 (Eastern Orthodox and Greek Catholic)

Attributes
Wool comb, candles, tending a choking boy or animals

Patronage
Animals, builders, choking, veterinarians, throats, infants,Maratea, Italy, Sicily, Dalmatia,Dubrovnik, Ciudad del Este, Paraguay,Rubiera, stonecutters, carvers, wool workers

Saint Blaise (Armenian: Սուրբ Բարսեղ, Sourb Barsel; Greek: Άγιος Βλάσιος, Agios Vlasios; Turkish: Aziz Vlas) was a physician, and bishop of Sebastea (modern Sivas, Turkey). According to Acta Sanctorum, he was martyred by being beaten, attacked with iron carding combs, and beheaded.

In iconography, Blaise is often shown with the instruments of his martyrdom, steel combs. He blessed throats and effected many miracles according to his hagiography. The similarity of these instruments of torture to wool combs led to his adoption as the patron saint of wool combers in particular, and the wool trade in general. He may also be depicted with crossedcandles. Such crossed candles are used for the blessing of throats on his feast day, which falls on 3 February, the day after Candlemas on the Roman Catholic calendar of saints. Blaise is traditionally believed to intercede in cases of throat illnesses, especially for fish-bones stuck in the throat.

Indeed, the first reference we have to him is in manuscripts of the medical writings of Aëtius Amidenus, a court physician of the very end of the 5th or the beginning of the 6th century; there his aid is invoked in treating objects stuck in the throat. He cured animals and lived in a cave. Before being killed, he spoke to a wolf and told it to release a pig it was harming. The wolf did so. Blaise was going to be starved but the owner of the pig secretly gave him food in order to survive. After a while, he was tortured because of his Christian faith but did not give up his beliefs. He died in the year 316.

Marco Polo reported the place where "Meeser Saint Blaise obtained the glorious crown of martyrdom", Sebastea; the shrine near the citadel mount was mentioned by William of Rubruckin 1253. However, it appears to no longer exist.




If you want to know more see here http://full-of-grace-and-truth.blogspot.com/2011/10/st-vlasios-blaise-hieromartyr-and-newly.html

 

[snakeoil24]

Don't tell to many people we don't want the ACLU to ban this.

 

[Meep-Meep]

Don't tell to many people we don't want the ACLU to ban this.

Uh oh. We are on the black list now. I didn't think about those jerks.

 

[shag766]

yea i have heard of it many-many yrs ago. grew up catholic.

 

[WP29440SE]

god bless the little piggies

 

[Bruzilla]

I've seen churches that have blessing ceremonies for fishing boats up in southern Maryland, and I was somewhere where they had a blessing for motocycles for all the bike clubs in the area. Maybe I ought to talk to someone about a Blessing of the Muscle Cars ceremony.

 

[old tired rebel]

Yes I have heard of it. Have I ever been to one,no.

 

[Budnicks]

downg downg downg downg downg downg downg

I'm not trying to get a big religious discussion goin. I just wanna know if any of yall have ever heard of this before?

We got this little Methodist church right down the road. It's over 100 years old. They got this tradition once a year where they have an "animal blessing" Sunday. People bring animals of all kinds. House animals, farm animals, you name it to have them blessed. It takes the whole service....and then some. It's really not as nutty as it sounds....it's kinda cool.

I was just wonderin if any of yall had ever heard of that before.

:iamwithstupid: Is that the song "dueling Banjos" {song from movie "Deliverance"} I hear in the background...LOL... yep our Methodist church in Concord, my mother forced me to go to every weekend services & Sunday school, use to do blessings of most any kind, animals, mostly just family pets, not really livestock {within reason}, around Christmas time too.... Amen ya'll pass the steaks...

 

[jessipup]

64 post Do you worship at the temple of P.E.T.A.
people eating tasty anamals

 

[MikeStahl]

its more about the blessed collection plates...lol

 

[pturner]

yep, it happens in Tennesse somewhere, they call it "Blessing of the Beasts", course we also have the blessing of the bikes, and then also at churches the "Beast Feast". sort of like the folks above said.
pt in tennessee

 

[Lowhound]

In Alabama we dont do any of the animal stuff. We tend to stick to cousins. Also my "little black book" doubles as my family tree.

 

[Budnicks]

in alabama we dont do any of the animal stuff. We tend to stick to cousins. Also my "little black book" doubles as my family tree.

lmao