Showing posts with label St. Francis Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label St. Francis Day. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Videos of The Blessing of the Animals on St. Francis Day, Oct. 4, 2010 Starring Rascal and Other Cute Animals

Well, one of the topics of this blog is Dogs, so I'm sharing the links to three videos I made on vacation from The Blessing of the Animals on St. Francis Day, Oct 4, 2010, in Arbor Vitae, WI. I finally had enough time to get them up on Youtube.com.  In case you don't know, Our Little Rascal is the one with the black eye patch.

Hope you like them.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgCmk3NBo9w


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGtIiQYw-gQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQP9D9s2j8E

Morgan

Sunday, October 12, 2008

Rascal Gets Blessed - 2008



Well, every year for obvious reasons we like to get Rascal blessed at the Blessing of the Animals in honor of St. Francis Day, either at Our Lady of the Wayside, our parish church, or at our vacation/adopted church, Holy Family, in Wisconsin, sometimes at both if we're lucky.

Rascal is a sweet dog, but let's face it, she's not perfect. After all, she does have a name to live up to and she does her best to do that, especially around me.

Presently I'm writing a children's book about Rascal to share her impact in our lives and lessons we've learned from her.

Anyway, we weren't the only ones who felt the need to have their animals blessed, judging from the assemblage of dogs, cats and owners yesterday at Our Lady of the Wayside Catholic Church.

Dean Pierce from St. James Church presided, since our parish priests and deacons were all spread thin. He did a marvelous job. None of the dogs seemed afraid of him, although some were not happy about getting a dose of water sprinkled on them.

Here's Dean Pierce with Rascal and my DH.


I did a long video of the Blessing, so I'm breaking it down. I'm posting the first part tonight, which shows the pets Gathering for the Blessing.

By the way, I'm not sure how well that blessing worked. At the moment, Rascal is staring at me. She's got that look that says she's bored and is wondering what devilment to get into...

Saturday, October 13, 2007

DO YOU LIKE ANIMALS - ESPECIALLY DOGS & HORSES? By Morgan Mandel

If you're an animal lover like I am, you might enjoy my new vacation video, featuring my dog, Rascal, at the Blessing of the Animals for St. Francis Day on Oct. 3, 2007, at Holy Family Catholic Church (parking lot), Woodruff Wisconsin.

Here's the youtube.com link. If it doesn't work for you, just go to youtube. com and do a search for morganmandel (oneword) and it will be at the top of my many videos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0QXRde-FOI

Enjoy!
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