Communion for pets

church mouse guy
I have heard of some of the churches doing a blessing day for our animal friends, but not the communion. It's not scriptural.
Praying for a pet is one thing, but communion......... I don't think so.

BTW, Maybe I skiped over the part in the artical to where it esplains why the preist thinks its alright (or his resoning behind it) to give a pet communion? Interesting topic and artical.

Music4Him

 

This is what comes from believing that humans evolved from lower life forms (we are all animals). This is also what comes with the belief that the sacrament is able or that church attendance saves. It is the ultimate insult to Christ and these sad souls have no clue. I hope they enjoy their female lesbian ministers and the pretty stain glass windows and gothic atmosphere of their houses of worship. It will likely be the closest they get to heaven... Unless they repent and ask Christ to be LORD of their lives, I see nothing better for them.

 

I hate to spoil your fun, guys. But you really do need to read more carefully.

"As part of the service, the 59-year-old retired portfolio manager carried her 17-year-old tiger cat to the altar, waited in line behind three panting dogs to receive the host and had a special benediction performed for her cat, Purr Box Jr."

This sentence says that the woman received communion and that her cat received a benediction.

I don't agree with having pets in church, but this article is not saying what you are making it out to say.

BTW, I have no doubt that plenty of baptists have prayed for their pets over the years.

 

We used to see 'Pet Blessings' this time of year on some special Saint's Day up north. I guess it makes about as much sense as taking your animal to see 'Santa Claus'. Dumb, de dum dum.

Praying for a child's pet is different. Blessing an animal or communion is way outta bounds!

Diane

 

The lady is still living a lie...

 

Pray for your animals all you like (I do mine!), but when we start seeing, and treating them as people, it can become dangerous.

One step down a slippery slope.........

 

Communion for pets. Unthinkable!!

Probably, the next thing will be some minister or priest marrying two 'Golden Retreivers' of the same sex.

Hell, is being enlarged for ungodly people like this who do such things. [Isaiah 5:14] 'Therefore, Hell has enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure . . . '

I have had Irish Setters most of my life.

 

Helllllloooooo....

The article does NOT say that the cat received communion.

Doesn't anyone bother to read before jumping in with their indignation?

 

So because someone else misrepresents it, it's ok for you to perpetuate the misrepresentation?

Besides, your excuse doesn't wash anyway.

"...but who would have thought that communion would be given to dogs?"

You added your own little extra to the false witness.

 

Love suffers long and is kind: love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;

I Corinthians 4-6

 

I don't know about that. It might be kinda neat. I know some of my Shelties would behave better in church than some small children I have seen act up in church.

 

Here is the key statement in the whole article:

"With pews hard to fill, a small number of otherwise-traditional clergy are welcoming animals into the flock"

Why are their pews hard to fill? And why do they have to resort to such frivolous methods to fill them? It says much about the state of the Christian Church generally and the Episcopol Church in particular.

 

My dog would be refused communion for her behavior !!!

 

Why is that the key statement?

BTW, the local baptist churches here compete to fill their pews by having comedy nights, paintball trips, building a rollerblading park, amusement park trips, etc.

All of that is meant to get kids to want their parents to join the church.

Is that a whole lot different?