• Francistide at St Mary’s

  04/10/2013

  Today is St Francis’s Day – love and blessings to all Franciscans out there and a special thanksgiving for the ministry of the new Pope.

  Last year I was in St Francis’s own city – not Assisi, but San Francisco and was blessing animals on the labyrinth of Grace Cathedral with Gene Robinson. (No, really, there’s a lovely macaw out there somewhere who can tell you it is all true).

  The focus at St Mary’s this year for Francistide is tomorrow (Saturday).

  We’ve an animal blessing service at 11 am tomorrow. All pets and their humans are welcome.

  Then in the afternoon, we’ve got a Choir Concert – free entry, donations at the end. This will include a performance of Captain Noah and his Floating Zoo starring the Young Church as the animals.

  They’ve been working on this, I gather:

  

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