Pets Blessing 2018

Proud owners with their pets 

Some 30 parishioners congregated at to Our Mother of Perpetual Help Church today and brought their pets in tow to get then blessed .This was the second year in a row the event Blessing of Pets was held.

Blessing of Pets is a ceremony held in remembrance of St Francis of Assisi, the Patron Saint of animals.

Rev. Fr Joseph Stephen said a prayer for the pets and their owners then blessed them amidst a cacophony of barks due to the attention which the animals were receiving.

There were mainly dogs and cats and a pair of terrapins. Many parishioners brought their pets by car though one family came on a motorbike, the dog sat in the motorcycle basket and the cat in the cage with the pillion.

 

(left photo) Pet came on the bike (r) Veronica and her dog and cats (in cage)

Another parishioner Ms Veronica Wong brought her family of pets 1 dog and 2 cats along saying another dog ‘could not come as it was under the weather’. 

As with most memorable events the session ended with a group photo of the pets, owners and the Parish Priest.

JAG