Please bring your well-behaved pets to church this Sunday to have them blessed by Pastor Bonnie Poirier!  If your pet is not up for the church experience or if they have crossed the Rainbow Bridge you may bring pictures of your beloved pets.  The blessing will be done while the children are still in the service so they may participate.  

Bonnie Poirier is a pastor with the Ministry of St. Francis of Assisi which is dedicated to all of God’s creation and to the spread of joy and peace in this world.  Bonnie Poirier was ordained back in 1994 with the Congregational Church after completing seminary training.  Bonnie is what is considered bi-vocational…she has a day job in the St. Tammany Parish School System is addition to her ministry. 

We take time with today’s service to give thanks and bless our companions in life—cats and dogs, birds and chickens, turtles and fish and so much more! This ceremony also acknowledges that our lives are made fuller and richer by the creatures that inhabit the Earth with us, not just those that live with us. 

Animal blessings originate out of the Catholic tradition; however, many Unitarian Universalist (UU) congregations have adopted this practice and have made it a uniquely UU type of blessing. Our seventh principle which states that we are all a part of an interconnected web of existence is the underlying motivation for many of these services. 

…Tamara Murray will lead the service In Person and on Zoom.

Greeters are Leslie Roussel and Barbara Shaw