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[decn2b]

You suffered when your cat died. Your suffering IS redemptive. So your cats suffering was redemptive by proxy in a sense…

 

[lkopteros]

I just want to thank all of you for your prayers. I have learned so much through this experience. I’ve learned about St Thomas Aquinas and the difference between Aristotle and Plato regarding their theories about animals meriting heaven…well that’s a long story that I’m still working through. But anyway, thank you all again. My cat’s ashes are home with me now and yes they have been blessed. I also confessed to my priest that I’ve lied to my family telling them the cat had a peaceful easy death and he said that’s fine. I just don’t want to hurt them. Time and prayers have comforted me and Jesus is by my side. I wasn’t there when God made the world so it’s really not up to me to know exactly what His intentions are regarding animals, I guess I’ll find that out one day. For now, I just thank Him greatly for the love He has shown me through the eyes of my cat and now other cats. God bless you all and keep you safe. Have a blessed Christmas season.
Lisa

 

[Jay2]

I pulled a 1/2 starved and parasite ridden kitten from a dumpster in 1975.

In 1977 this cat helped me deal with my parent’s divorce.
In 1983 the cat moved with me to my new life.
In 1988 the cat was included in my marriage - “It’s me and “Cat”, or not at all…”
In 1992 this old & feeble mouser played with my 1st born
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In 1993-1/2 I had to ask my wife to take her to the Vet and have her put down. She was deaf, 1/2 blind, and demented. I couldn’t do it… Merciful or not I couldn’t kill my friend.

She was known only as “Cat”. Never really had a name, just “Cat”. Shared almost 20 years with this critter… almost as long as I’ve now been with my wife.

God gave us “dominion over all beasts”… maybe He goofed a bit about some of the beasts that become our “mates”, and allowing us to get so deeply attached…

 

[carol_marie]

I just wanted to tell you that I am so very sorry about your cat. What a wonderful time you shared together. He was blessed to have you as his owner & friend.

I am glad you are able to find some peace.
God Bless you,
CM

 

[Jeanette_L]

I, too, am so very sorry for your recent loss. I have been through a similar painful loss of a very much loved cat several years ago and I still cry when I see pictures of him, he was such a sweet blessing in my life!

One thing that I have realized as time has gone by, is that the experience of this loss was used in my life, in my soul. My heart was just plain broken. And sometimes it takes brokenness to bear a specific fruit in your soul. I know that since this loss, I have been much more aware of the pain that others experience in their lives. I can feel it when they go through it. I can honestly say that before this specific breaking of my heart that I couldn’t empathize. And I can’t explain why it was the loss of a cat and not of other loved ones in my life that produced this, but it just was.

But this is very fresh for you. Only in time will you know it’s purpose.

And I’m still holding out hope that some day we will see these beauties again!

God Bless.

 

[JKirkLVNV]

I just want to thank everyone for being sensitive to my pain. What makes this particularly hard is that not only have I lost a good friend but I feel as though I’ve lost my church. When the priest rejected my simple request it was as though God Himself was refusing to bless the ashes. I know my can’t isn’t in heaven because that’s what I’m told by priests. But I just don’t understand what would have been so bad about blessing them. Other priests have blessed my dead pets. Priests bless houses that don’t go to heaven. It wasn’t so much for the cat as it was for me I guess, and it left me feeling turned away by the one place on earth that I thought I could find comfort. Then, I have a spiritual director who I’ve been emailing like crazy with no reply. I understand he may be busy but one little line of sympathy would have meant something, some kind of solace from a priest to show me that the church hasn’t completely turned her back on me, but nothing. I’m heartbroken from the rejection I think even more than the loss of my cat. I really believe that the devil caused this suffering but I don’t know why God allowed it. You see the night before the cat died I spent an hour in adoration and I had never felt closer to Jesus than I did that night. I wanted to stay forever. When the Exposition was over I just wanted them to leave Him there in the monstrance so that I could tell Him over and over how very much I love Him. Then to wake up to such a contrast was almost more than I could bear. I don’t trust anyone with my cats but I told God right off that I trust Him with my cat and to please take care of Him, to please end his suffering. I prayed for St Francis to intercede…nothing for 2hr and 10min I bore witness to a scene that even Stephen King could not have created. It was horror at the core and as much as I try to stop the memory…hearing the cries, seeing what I saw, it keeps haunting me. I continue to pray. I continue to try to feel Jesus in spite of this void that I feel toward the church right now. I’m lying to my family about his death telling them that he died a peaceful easy death because I can’t bear to put someone I love through what God allowed me to go through. I didn’t go to confession for the lying because I intend to hold onto that lie for the rest of my life, I’m just not that cruel. Will God forgive me this, I don’t know but it’s a chance I’ve decided to take. I pray that Mary will console me, She above all women understands suffering. I pray she will help me. I’ve never been married and even if I were I can’t have children, I became sterile with the chemo and bone marrow transplant, my cats are my children. Maybe She can understand this, maybe She will give me comfort. I’ve prayed the rosary many times, maybe She can help me. But thank you all for your posts, they have helped a great deal.

Maybe the Holy One can heal this horrific memory or bring a good out of it, maybe by making you even more like Jesus in His Compassion. I’m awfully sorry for your loss. I hope you will be comforted.

 

[sconea]

My heart goes out to you.
You’ve experienced a very painful suffering in your heart for one of God’s precious creatures.

I know it says in Romans 8:22 that the “whole of creation groans and travails in pain together…”. So it does seem as if all creation is also bearing sickness, suffering and death…from sin, not just humans. The other verse mentioned above that I always found so helpful was the one about not one sparrow falls to the ground without your Father. Surely, there is more to this than we know, but it is a mystery beyond our understanding now. I pray God give you peace of heart and healing…

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