Priest's dog in church during Mass

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Your Tuesday chuckle:

I wonder how my parish priest would react if I brought my 11 cats to Mass? Or my 5 month old American Pit Bull puppy? Hey, the Holy Father loves cats and one of my cats is named Benedict Joseph in his honor!

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TheRealJuliane said:
What a great story and memory! Hilarious! Sounds like St. Francis saintly ears may have been offended by Msgr.'s off-key singing too! Har har har, so cute.
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I got a boot out of that story too. Well TOLD Odile 53 !

Catalog this under potential mass problems. With lowtalking lectors and those dear people who LOVE to singā€¦CAN"T ā€¦ and burst into ear shattering off key arias that could drown out a Wagner opera. šŸ˜ƒ
 
I see nothing whatsoever wrong with the priestā€™s dog being there. Our priest has a dog he loves very much and I would never object to the dog being at Mass. I find it sweet and comforting somehow. Of course, Iā€™m totally wild about my own dog, so I can totally understand. I think a lot of people really need to loosen up and not just Catholics and not just on this matter.
 
If we roll back the clock a couple of millennia . . . We find Christians to frequently be poor, and bringing what little livestock they have with them to the Eucharistic celebration celebrations on Sunday. Low barriers are erected to keep the cows, dogs, pigs, etc. out of the clergyā€™s way up near the Holy Table. As time passes, these barriers evolve into the western altar rail and the eastern iconostasis. Like so many other things, other explanations come into play over time, but this is the origin. hawk
 
Actaeon said:
That has never been good advice for anyone, even if they mistakenly believed it to be so at the timeā€¦
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Isnā€™t that in the Gospels somewhere? ā€œShoot unto others as you would have others shoot unto you.ā€ :eek:
 
Dogs are loyal, and trusting, and they love unconditionally. Would that some could learn a spiritual lesson from dogs.
 
ConstantineTG said:
In the Philippines, pets wander around the street as part of everyday life and some of them do find themselves inside churches during Mass. I guess as long as they are not in the Sanctuary, then that is fine. Iā€™ve seen someone chase away a stray dog away from the Sanctuary once, but usually if they just stay around the pews people just ignore them.
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I wonder if they have cows at Mass in India? Also, when the shepherds came to worship the baby Jesus, did they bring their dogs with them? Werenā€™t there cows in there?

Also, Saint Rocco wouldnā€™t have lived long enough to be a Saint if God hadnā€™t sent a dog to rescue him.

Also, Saint Francis preached to birds with no people around at all. He tamed a man-eating wolf and made it a village pet, they say.

I like the idea that the children in the congregation will come up to the Priest to see his dog.

Dog-sponsored vocations.

Yeah.

Thatā€™s the ticket!
 
dochawk said:
If we roll back the clock a couple of millennia . . . We find Christians to frequently be poor, and bringing what little livestock they have with them to the Eucharistic celebration celebrations on Sunday. Low barriers are erected to keep the cows, dogs, pigs, etc. out of the clergyā€™s way up near the Holy Table. As time passes, these barriers evolve into the western altar rail and the eastern iconostasis. Like so many other things, other explanations come into play over time, but this is the origin. hawk
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Seriously? What a great bit of Church history trivia! Thereā€™s not a link perchance where we can read more about this?
 
Crumpy said:
I never tried to upload a photo but Iā€™m going to try. My niece went to a baptism in Ohio at a Catholic Mass and the priest had his dog in church during Mass.

She said the priest was, well, very laid back.

Well, I donā€™t know how to do it. But trust me, thereā€™s a dog in church during Mass.
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Saint Clare Monistary in Brenham, Texas the nuns sell miniature horses jayssouth.com/texas/saintclare/

They have or had a dog in the church thats located on the monastery grounds when we visited a few years ago.Fittingly the church is dedicated to St Francis.
 
Zosimus41 said:
Saint Clare Monistary in Brenham, Texas the nuns sell miniature horses jayssouth.com/texas/saintclare/

They have or had a dog in the church thats located on the monastery grounds when we visited a few years ago.Fittingly the church is dedicated to St Francis.
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I know of Carmelite monastery. They have a dog, and it can run around the enclosure, but it is NEVER allowed inside the chapel.
 
Stylites said:
Dogs are loyal, and trusting, and they love unconditionally. Would that some could learn a spiritual lesson from dogs.
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Animals cannot love unconditionally. They learn who gives them food, etc., and they respond to that, but they donā€™t love.
 
POLICE DOGS RECOGNIZE THE ā€œREAL PRESENCEā€ ?

bettnet.com/blog/index.php/weblog/comments/police_dogs_recognize_christ_in_the_eucharist/

OK. This WASNā€™T at MASS - but it was a story about service dogs in a Chapel.

A chapel the Pope was to visit. And DID visit hours later.

The dogs were Police Dogs, trained to spot a human presence in a building. Sometimes this skill helps them find victims trapped in debris in an earthquake - THIS day they were making a security sweep in advance of Pope John Paul IIā€™s visit to a Baltimore Seminaryā€™s chapel. AND ā€¦ though their trainers removed them from the sanctuary ā€¦ the dogs
gave their usual signal for ā€œHERE is someone!ā€ in the chapel ā€¦ their attention riveted on the tabernacle. (Click the link and enjoy, animal lovers) :extrahappy:
  • Further down the page in the link, a blogger shares a story about St. Anthony of Padua and a mule. A story Iā€™d heard before. True? Well, the EUCHARIST is true - which is more important than the details of a possibly legendary story. šŸ™‚
 
The_Curt_Jester said:
Animals cannot love unconditionally. They learn who gives them food, etc., and they respond to that, but they donā€™t love.
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Certainly dogs can love, and they can also be obedient, which is another good lesson for us. There are many instances in history of grieving dogs who spend the rest of their lives on the graves of their owners, rather than galloping along to the next handout location. Other animals exhibit grief as well. The whole of creation reveals something of God, if we have eyes to see.

Supposedly, secularists will claim that a child doesnā€™t really love its mother, but is only responding to the milk it receives.
 
severus68 said:
No, no, no, not true.
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Yes, yes, yes. Quite true.
Stylites said:
Certainly dogs can love, and they can also be obedient, which is another good lesson for us. There are many instances in history of grieving dogs who spend the rest of their lives on the graves of their owners, rather than galloping along to the next handout location. Other animals exhibit grief as well. The whole of creation reveals something of God, if we have eyes to see.

Supposedly, secularists will claim that a child doesnā€™t really love its mother, but is only responding to the milk it receives.
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Loving requires an act of the will. Animals do not have free will. Your comment about the baby and his mother is rather off-the-wall, since you are trying to make dogs equal to people, which they are not. It is that kind of mindset which drives people to not want children because they already ā€œhave their babiesā€.
 
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