*The Blessing of Poultry *by Karen Peebles. She has all the other blessings too. At only $0.99 each!
Here is the Blessing for Poultry, for those who have not yet memorized it: O God, Creator of all things, besides the other kinds of creatures Thou hast deigned to produce the species of birds for the use of mankind. With these birds, Noe, as he was leaving the ark, offered Thee an acceptable sacrifice; and when Thy people were being led out of Egypt by Moses Thy servant, Thou gavest a precept that they should eat of these birds, separating the clean from the unclean. We humbly beseech Thee, graciously bless and sanctify the flesh of these clean birds, that all who eat of them may be filled with Thy abundant blessing and may merit to attain the well watered gardens of eternal life. Through Christ our lord Amen.
That’s it. Amazon wants me to buy the fool thing for a buck? I bought you $400 Kindle reader. Why the heck are you letting this woman try too rip me off for another dollar?
The redlegs say Barbara (Her prayers resulted in a first round hit, no bracketing!) but I prefer Saint Joan of Arc, who actually used artillery.
I myself look to Michael the Archangel as I am an old paratrooper. The other patron of parachutists is Elmo. But I always think of Seasame Street when I think of Elmo.
It looks to me like those are all texts from something like the Catholic version of a whole ceremony I saw on the BBC production Story of God, which was an Anglican Blessing of the Village and Farms-type thing, where the priest was blessing things left and right (like a Pope in an Onion article). Including tractors, which I guess would come under “Wagon or other vehicle”…
or should that be “Draft Animal”?
I notice the “Blessing of Bacon or Lard” skips the whole “clean animal” bit quite adroitly :dubious:
If you’ve watched closely the movie version of MAS*H, the phrase “Bless this Jeep”, followed by a reference to a biblical event involving a chariot, should come to mind
But really, the churches of the Western Catholic tradition, which would include RC and “High” Anglican, DO have a whole panoply of situationally specific blessings, invocations and the such. This person is just taking advantage of how the RCC did NOT bother to copyright or trademark its ritual (only relatively recently have they done so with papal publications!). Then again, indeed, why pay her when the Church provides it for free?
And yes, my Lutheran parish is High Church enough to do it, and Low Church enough to make it informal. One of my dogs tries to get into the theological swing of things but fails, being a dog and all (she knows she’s supposed to be good but all those impolite dogs drive her crazy. Collies! :rolleyes:). Another just loves our pastor and will go along with whatever he says, like some of the old ladies.
**Cleric:**And the Lord did grin, and the people did feast upon the chicks, and silkies, and eggs, and nuggets, and general tsaos, and balut, and fried feet, and large capon –
