{"id":38378,"date":"2017-10-04T12:51:33","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T17:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=38378"},"modified":"2022-11-07T22:47:04","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T04:47:04","slug":"blessings-animals-and-burying-them-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2017\/10\/04\/blessings-animals-and-burying-them-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Blessings Animals — and Burying Them, Too?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Around the feast of St. Francis of Assisi, many parishes \u2013 and by no means Roman Catholic ones alone \u2013 celebrate the Blessing of Animals. \u00a0These celebrations have become exceedingly popular, which is not surprising given that there are now more dogs than children in the U.S., and that people spend well over 60 billion[!] dollars on pet supplies in a year.\u00a0 In tandem with these statistics, we have also witnessed significant shifts in understanding of the human-animal relationship, leading to an acknowledgment that we live together in a communion of subjects.<\/p>\n

What does all this have to do with liturgical life?\u00a0 \u201cAnimal rites\u201d are of course nothing new in human history. \u00a0The first known evidence of ritual burials of companion animals dates to ca. 10,000 years before Christ.\u00a0 And the Christian tradition itself has a rich history of interconnections between animals and worship, from the swallow that makes her nest in the temple (Ps 84:4), and the bees that made it into the Exsultet, to the animals that are blessed around the Feast of St. Francis. \u00a0Some denominations, in fact, like the Episcopal Church, are making available \u201cnew rites and prayers for care of beloved animals<\/a>\u201d and some parishes are making such animal rites a particular focus of their ministry (e.g., St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church in Little Rock, AR).<\/p>\n

One difficult issue that is emerging is the question of \u201cpet burials.\u201d \u00a0I myself prefer to think about this issue as the question of the burial of a beloved animal — with the fierce German Shepherd mutt I rescued many years ago and buried last month, \u201cpet\u201d never seemed appropriate to her wolf-like spirit.\u00a0 But back to the issue at hand:\u00a0 In a prominent Jesuit journal in Germany, Stimmen der <\/em>Zeit, a theological ethicist and Catholic priest, Michael Rosenberger, wrote a very thoughtful essay on this issue just a couple of months ago<\/a>.\u00a0 Rosenberger noted, to begin with, that requests for animal burials have risen exponentially, at least in the North Atlantic world.\u00a0 He asked whether the church might respond to this \u201csign of the times\u201d with a Christian form of a burial of beloved animals.<\/p>\n

Just to be crystal clear here: no one is imagining a requiem for animals; the discussion is about liturgical forms and prayers that might accompany the burial of a companion animal.\u00a0 Rosenberger considered such symbols as the Easter candle (gesturing to the redemption of the whole cosmos, won in Christ), the cross (as the tree of life), the committal to the earth (shared by deceased humans and animals), and holy water \u2013 with which animals are blessed during their lives in any case, around the Feast of St. Francis.\u00a0 For Rosenberger, the often-voiced argument that the church must attend only to grieving humans left behind and not to burying deceased animals is a short-sighted one.\u00a0 He argues instead that a ritual of burying a beloved animal offers a form of pastoral care for the humans left behind.<\/p>\n

Predictably, some scorn followed the publication of this essay in online comments, with one respondent wondering whether pet burials were a desperate church\u2019s response to dwindling numbers of humans who requested burials from the church.\u00a0 Others foresaw the imminent collapse of a venerable tradition of 2,000 years of serious theological reflection with the question of animal burials even being raised.<\/p>\n

I think we need to take this issue seriously.\u00a0 I wonder what thoughts, insights, and experiences readers of this blog have?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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