Animal blessing in modern times

Animal blessing in modern times

By Rosa Mª Quero Pérez, Animadora Laudato Si’. On January 17, as every year, parishioners take their pets, usually to the Franciscan temples, to be blessed. The reason why animals are blessed on St. Anthony Abbot’s Day is because this saint is attributed with...
Turkey for Christmas?

Turkey for Christmas?

By Virginia Bell, Laudato Si’ Animators UK “We read in the Gospel that Jesus says of the birds of the air that ‘not one of them is forgotten before God’. How then can we possibly mistreat them or cause them harm?” (LS 221) Turkey Farming The Christmas tradition of...