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Mass. church to offer monthly worship services for dogs, and barking will not be banned
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| 3:05 PM CDT, May 5, 2010
Posted on 05/05/2010 2:54:05 PM PDT by FourPeas
By Associated Press
DANVERS, Mass. (AP) A Massachusetts church is scheduled to launch a new monthly worship service for dogs. Calvary Episcopal Church will offer later this month its first "Perfect Paws Pet Ministry" aimed at giving area pooches and their owners improved odds at getting canines into heaven. The Danvers church plans to hold the service on the third Sunday of every month, complete with communion for the humans and special blessings for pets. Dogs will get special treats.
Church officials said well-mannered, leashed dogs are invited. People can submit a paper prayer if their pets are sick, not good around other dogs or deceased. Prayers can also be offered for other types of pets.
Rev. Thea Keith-Lucas told The Salem News dogs will have a say during service because barking won't be banned.
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posted on
05/05/2010 2:54:06 PM PDT
by
FourPeas
To: FourPeas
What has happened to my country?
To: camerongood210
It has truly gone to the dogs. No joke.
To: camerongood210
How will they tithe, or should I ask?
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posted on
05/05/2010 2:57:03 PM PDT
by
RangerM
(A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel - Robert Frost.)
To: camerongood210
I would rather go to church with dogs than liberal Episcopalians or liberal Catholics or liberal anything. Many dogs have more virtue than a lot of people.
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posted on
05/05/2010 2:58:57 PM PDT
by
Frantzie
(McCain=Obama's friend. McCain/Graham = La Raza's Senators & Estefan-Rubio)
To: FourPeas
At least it’s not a pentecostal church. All of the dogs would start barking in tongues!
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posted on
05/05/2010 3:01:20 PM PDT
by
Alex Murphy
(Pretentiousness is so beneath me.)
To: FourPeas
The owners pay the church in the belief that their dogs go to heaven. Lots of upkeep when everything is ‘marked’.
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posted on
05/05/2010 3:02:56 PM PDT
by
allmost
To: Alex Murphy
All dogs go to heaven, it's the owners that need to worry!
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posted on
05/05/2010 3:04:56 PM PDT
by
Kartographer
(".. we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.")
To: Alex Murphy
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posted on
05/05/2010 3:07:46 PM PDT
by
irishtenor
(Tag line is on vacation.)
To: FourPeas
OK, so this is a Buddhist dog. Apparently the Episcopals don't want to be left out on the lucrative dog religion sector.
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posted on
05/05/2010 3:08:12 PM PDT
by
FourPeas
(God Bless America)
To: Frantzie
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posted on
05/05/2010 3:09:23 PM PDT
by
Walrus
(My congressman is toast in 2010 --- how about yours?)
To: all the best
To: FourPeas
Years ago I was a visiting scholar at University of Sao Paolo in Brazil. One Sunday one of my colleagues took me to the Cathedral for Mass (I'd been going to a church near my apartment). I was flabbergasted to see an elderly woman bring her dog into the church. It was a small one, and she kept it on her lap throughout Mass. It didn't bark, so if I hadn't seen it, I'd never have known it was there. I'd never heard of such a thing.
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posted on
05/05/2010 3:22:39 PM PDT
by
JoeFromSidney
( My new book, RESISTANCE TO TYRANNY, now available from Amazon.)
To: FourPeas
Sounds like we have a collection going (lol). Buddhists, Roman Catholics, Episcopals, and now Presbyterians, too.
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posted on
05/05/2010 3:27:20 PM PDT
by
FourPeas
(God Bless America)
To: JoeFromSidney
My pastor has a dog. He shuts her in the office wing during Mass, but sometimes the door gets opened and she turns up snuffling up the aisles.
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posted on
05/05/2010 3:34:55 PM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(It's a jungle out there, kiddies; have a very fruitful day.)
To: FourPeas
I figured they were a bunch of false teachers, now i know.
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posted on
05/05/2010 3:47:54 PM PDT
by
ravenwolf
(Just a bit of the long list of proofs)
To: FourPeas
Well, Mark 16:16 does say, "......preach the gospel to every
creature."
I'd just never heard of anybody who interpreted it literally.
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posted on
05/05/2010 4:02:43 PM PDT
by
LouAvul
To: FourPeas
Surely this report is a joke!
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posted on
05/05/2010 4:03:58 PM PDT
by
AEMILIUS PAULUS
(It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
To: FourPeas
Liberal leciferian insanity has corrupted this “church” It’s not even funny.
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posted on
05/05/2010 4:08:01 PM PDT
by
vpintheak
(Love of God, Family and Country has made me an extremist.)
To: FourPeas
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posted on
05/05/2010 4:51:29 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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