Happy Feast Day of St. Francis
Peter Robinson ·
Oct 4, 2010 at 9:26am
The Blessing of the Animals, this very morning.
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May '10
Re: Happy Feast Day of St. Francis
Notice, Claire, no cats.
You can receive a blessing or nine lives, but not both, apparently.
May '10
Re: Happy Feast Day of St. Francis
Where is the Vicar of Dibley in all this?
Aug '10
Re: Happy Feast Day of St. Francis
The blessing of the animals reminds me of a song we sang once in church choir, whose lyrics, which I am not making up, go as follows:
O ye badgers and hedgehogs, bless the Lord,
O ye badgers and squirrels and hedgehogs, bless the Lord,
O ye badgers and squirrels and ferrets and foxes and hedgehogs, bless the Lord,
O ye parakeets and pelicans and porcupines and penguins,
guillemots and guinea pigs and gallinules and godwits
and badgers and hedgehogs, bless the Lord,
O ye weasels and warthogs and wallabies and wombats,
chipmunks and chuckwallas* and kookaburras and caterpillars
and badgers and hedgehogs, bless the Lord,
O ye dromedaries and ye dragonflies and diddy little daddy long legs,
budgerigars and bumblebees and bandicoots and bullfrogs
and badgers and hedgehogs, bless the Lord!
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* The chuckwalla is a fairly slow-moving, thick-bodied lizard that defends itself by crawling into a crevice and gulping air to inflate its body, so that it cannot be dislodged until it deflates. A chuckwalla with no crevice to crawl into will sometimes inflate itself anyhow when startled. The old Latin name for the common chuckwalla is Sauromalus obesus, meaning fat, flat lizard.