Would you get your pet or unicycle BLESSED?

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My dog drags me to the Annual Coffee Bark in the nearby park, where the Catholic priest blesses her. She’s going tomorrow. But nearly every church blesses the animals annually this weekend. Do they do this in other nations?

In the meantime, Sunday is the Feast of St Francis, known as the Blessing of the Animals, has been held in New York since 1985, bringing together people and their pets to celebrate creation at the Cathedral of St John the Divine in west Harlem.

A fun event for children, animal lovers and their furry friends, the service includes a special Mass and a procession of animals to the altar. This often includes elephants and larger animals from the Central Park Zoo. Afterwards there is a fair on the lawn outside, with a blessing of pets by the cathedral clergy.

Meanwhile, in April 2009 (annually in April) is the Blessing of the Bicycles and Unicycles. Because this is not far from the NYC Unatics meeting place anyway, several Unatics usually take advantage.

Cathedral of St. John the Divine (Episcipal)
Hundreds of cyclists aim to ensure safe pedalling by attending the somewhat eccentric Blessing of the Bicycles ceremony, held at the Cathedral of St John the Divine in Manhattan each spring.

Google it to find your local blessings.

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Now they don’t have to bother wearing a helmet.

Billy, I hate to break this to you, but your dog is an atheist. She just likes going to the park.

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Maybe they are atheist but I can assure you that all dogs have Faith!

My dog has faith there will always be another ball to chase and food every morning.

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My unicycle got blessed by a monk in Tibet. I UPD’d near him and he came over make sure I was okay then blessed my unicycle.

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That’s übercool. A blessing I would gladly receive. What was the monk’s purpose for blessing the unicycle? For your continued well-being? I’m not sure I understand this whole blessing thing. I would dismiss a blessing from “the church,” but getting one from a Tibetan monk (especially in Tibet) would probably mean something to me.

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I’m thinking about replacing the bearings on my H-36. Do you think if I got it appropriately blessed, my current bearings would last another 5,000 miles?

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If someone for some reason wanted to bless my unicycle or my pet, out of politeness I would let them. But, no, I would never make any effort myself to get either of them blessed.

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There’s only one GOD, same for the Buddhist as for everyone else, despite minor Western propaganda to the contrary.

So the Blessing should be just as good, though it might make a better story.

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Budhists dont believe in god or gods, but to some mahayana budhists Buddha is god, but that is still diffrende thing than christians god.

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Dang, a blessed uinicycle would be kinda cool :smiley:

Off-topic:Whats UPD?:stuck_out_tongue:

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UPD

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Ahh nice :smiley:

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lol, that sounds really funny…i never heard it before. today there was err…i´ll explain because i don´t know the english word…there was a lot of corn and things like that (potatoes, pumpkin,…) at the altar to thank the crop at church :slight_smile:

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offering?

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offering what? the potatoes and so on? i don´t know what´s going to happen with them but yes i think they are offered for whatever :slight_smile:

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seems like kind of a nature religion… like you know the celts and so:p

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nope its a christian religion…protestants…but as i know katholics and so on have this day, too…:stuck_out_tongue:
the celts weren´t them long time ago?!? :sunglasses:

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probably some kind of old fashioned weird people somewhere still offer to all their nature gods :slight_smile: And i dont know of anny offering kind of day with us :slight_smile:

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i said i´m not sure if they offer it but i think…it´s just a worship in which you praise god for the good crop POINT :smiley:

its every year at the first sunday of october,…

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If you give some of the crop to the god (like leying it by the altar) it IS an offer!:smiley: Nah!