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Blessing of Animals
Every year, on the Sunday closest to the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi on October 3, Holy Trinity holds a service for the Blessing of Animals.
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St. Francis warned: “If you have men who will exclude any of God’s creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who deal likewise with their fellow men.”