Considering that there were at least 100 strange dogs together for Sunday's Blessing of the Animals at St. Margaret Mary Church in Algonquin, it was a remarkably peaceful event. Father Peter Tymko blessed a group of beasts that included not only the dogs, but at least eight cats (in carriers), three goats, two hamsters, a turtle and a goldfish.
Tymko said the annual blessing ceremony was "to remind us that the animals are our friends who live with us and help us." Oct. 4 in the Catholic Church is the feast day of St. Francis of Assisi who wrote the Canticle of the Creatures. It sort of said the same thing.
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