<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body ><div>Please send me any liturgies you have for St. Francis Day blessings of pets.</div><div>Thanks!</div><div>Peace and blessings,</div><div>Joe</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-size:75%;color:#575757">From my Android phone on T-Mobile. The first nationwide 4G network.</div></div> <br><br><br>-------- Original message --------<br>From: robertpmorrison@charter.net <br>Date: 10/04/2014 1:24 AM (GMT-05:00) <br>To: Propertalk <propertalk@stsams.org> <br>Subject: [Propertalk] Proper 22 a <br> <br><br><div align="LEFT"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><br></font></div><div align="LEFT"><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="#000000" letterspacing="0" kerning="0">Bob</font></div><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="#000000" letterspacing="0" kerning="0"><br></font><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="#000000" letterspacing="0" kerning="0"><br></font><div align="LEFT"><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="#000000" letterspacing="0" kerning="0">THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF ST. ALBAN, ALBANY THE SEVENTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST</font></div><div align="LEFT"><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="#000000" letterspacing="0" kerning="0">EXODUS 20:1-4, 7-9, 12-20 PROPER 22 (A)</font></div><div align="LEFT"><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="#000000" letterspacing="0" kerning="0">PHILIPPIANS 3:4b-14 5th OCTOBER, 2014 </font></div><div align="LEFT"><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="#000000" letterspacing="0" kerning="0">MATTHEW 21:33-46 PSALM 19</font></div><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="#000000" letterspacing="0" kerning="0"><br></font><div align="LEFT"><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="#000000" letterspacing="0" kerning="0">Then God spoke all these words:</font></div><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="#000000" letterspacing="0" kerning="0"><br></font><div align="LEFT"><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="#000000" letterspacing="0" kerning="0"> I am the LORD 《》<></font></div><div align="LEFT"><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="#000000" letterspacing="0" kerning="0"> Everyone in the apartment complex I lived in knew who Ugly was. Ugly was the resident tomcat.</font></div><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="#000000" letterspacing="0" kerning="0"><br></font><div align="LEFT"><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="#000000" letterspacing="0" kerning="0"> Ugly loved three things in this world: fighting, eating garbage, and shall we say, love. The combination of these things combined with a life spent outside had their affect on Ugly.</font></div><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="#000000" letterspacing="0" kerning="0"><br></font><div align="LEFT"><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="#000000" letterspacing="0" kerning="0"> To start with, he had only one eye, and where the other should have been was a gaping hole. He was also missing his ear on the same side, his left foot has appeared to have been badly broken at one time, and had healed at an unnatural angle, making him look like he was always turning the corner. His tail has long since been lost, leaving only the smallest stub, which he would constantly jerk and twitch. Ugly would have been a dark gray tabby striped-type, except for the sores covering his head, neck, even his shoulders with thick, yellowing scabs.</font></div><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="#000000" letterspacing="0" kerning="0"><br></font><div align="LEFT"><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="#000000" letterspacing="0" kerning="0"> Every time someone saw Ugly there was the same reaction. “That’s one UGLY cat!”</font></div><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="#000000" letterspacing="0" kerning="0"><br></font><div align="LEFT"><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="#000000" letterspacing="0" kerning="0"> All the children were warned not to touch him, the adults threw rocks at him, hosed him down, squirted him when he tried to come in their homes, or shut his paws in the door when he would not leave.</font></div><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="#000000" letterspacing="0" kerning="0"><br></font><div align="LEFT"><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="#000000" letterspacing="0" kerning="0"> Ugly always had the same reaction. If you turned the hose on him, he would stand there, getting soaked until you gave up and quit. If you threw things at him, he would curl his lanky body around feet in forgiveness. Whenever he spied children, he would come running meowing frantically and bump his head against their hands, begging for their love. If you ever picked him up he would immediately begin suckling on your shirt, earrings, whatever he could find.</font></div><div align="LEFT"><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="#000000" letterspacing="0" kerning="0"> One day Ugly shared his love with the neighbors’ huskies. They did not respond kindly, and Ugly was badly mauled. From my apartment I could hear his screams, and I tried to rush to his aid. By the time I got to where he was laying, it was apparent Ugly’s sad life was almost at an end.</font></div><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="#000000" letterspacing="0" kerning="0"><br></font><div align="LEFT"><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="#000000" letterspacing="0" kerning="0"> Ugly lay in a wet circle, his back legs and lower back twisted grossly out of shape, a gaping tear in the white stripe of fur that ran down his front. As I picked him up and tried to carry him home I could hear him wheezing and gasping, and could feel him struggling. I must be hurting him terribly I <></font></div></body>