Pooches Take the Pulpit
Photo ~ Father Roy Snipes of Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church in Mission, Texas with Puebla and Bendito, all in vestments Pooches Take the Pulpit Father Roy Snipes has more assistance than most …More
Photo ~ Father Roy Snipes of Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church in Mission, Texas with Puebla and Bendito, all in vestments
Pooches Take the Pulpit
Father Roy Snipes has more assistance than most priests in Masses, counseling sessions and confessions: his dogs. The big mixed-breeds — sometimes as many as five of them — provide the extra dollop of warmth and joviality that can open hearts.
"Church can have a tendency to feel rigid and frigid to people," he says. That dissolves when he walks into Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church in Mission, Texas, with his mutt pack trailing behind his robes.
The dogs sometimes veer off from the processional to prowl the pews, greeting favorite people, but during Mass they generally lie quietly at the altar (though one has taken to curling up in the celebrant's chair, so Sikes has to perch on its edge).
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Pooches Take the Pulpit
Father Roy Snipes has more assistance than most priests in Masses, counseling sessions and confessions: his dogs. The big mixed-breeds — sometimes as many as five of them — provide the extra dollop of warmth and joviality that can open hearts.
"Church can have a tendency to feel rigid and frigid to people," he says. That dissolves when he walks into Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church in Mission, Texas, with his mutt pack trailing behind his robes.
The dogs sometimes veer off from the processional to prowl the pews, greeting favorite people, but during Mass they generally lie quietly at the altar (though one has taken to curling up in the celebrant's chair, so Sikes has to perch on its edge).
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The fruits of Vatican two have come to its completion!
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Love the rainbow stole....Mama Mia!
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Hmm... at the FSSP church, Santissima Trinità dei Pellegrini, in Rome my friend tells me that two ladies regularly attend Mass with their purse sized dogs.
But, it is a bit much when dogs enter the sanctuary. But in most new churches there are neither altar rails with gates (for the Latins) nor iconostasis with doors (for the Greeks), so it presents a problem with controlling where dogs and laity …More
Hmm... at the FSSP church, Santissima Trinità dei Pellegrini, in Rome my friend tells me that two ladies regularly attend Mass with their purse sized dogs.
But, it is a bit much when dogs enter the sanctuary. But in most new churches there are neither altar rails with gates (for the Latins) nor iconostasis with doors (for the Greeks), so it presents a problem with controlling where dogs and laity might wander!
But, it is a bit much when dogs enter the sanctuary. But in most new churches there are neither altar rails with gates (for the Latins) nor iconostasis with doors (for the Greeks), so it presents a problem with controlling where dogs and laity might wander!
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