Welcoming and Blessing

Have a new member of your family? I am available for animal companion blessings weekday evenings and most weekends unless I have a prior commitment that day. October 4th is St Francis’ Feast Day!

Transition

The sudden loss or impending transition of a beloved animal companion often goes with the added indignity of having your feelings not taken seriously. As a lover of animals, I do understand the depth of emotion we share for our companions. For people with disabilities who depend on their assistance for mobility and freedom, the loss of an assistant is doubly distressing.

As with funerals and memorials for humans, I am available weekday evenings and on weekends for ceremonies. Unless I am counseling or performing a ceremony I will answer my cell phone. If I am unavailable at the moment, please leave a message in my voice mail with your name, a callback number and a good time to call when I can reach you. No one cries or prays alone in my presence — my job as a minister is to ease the pain of sudden transition and, while I hope we never have to meet under sad circumstances, may I be of comfort to you.

At all times, I will try to work with you to set times and locations so that everything will go as smoothly as possible. Your needs and concerns are very important to me; I may or may not appear to be able to fulfill every one of them just by looking at the web page, so it’s important to review these outlines, then use the contact form to get in touch with me to see how we can best work together for your occasion.

If you don’t see a ceremony that you would like to have performed, by all means contact me. These pages are not an exhaustive listing.