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All creatures great and small

Dogs Coco, Joey and Bob, Horace the lizard and Basil the bantam prepare to be blessed on Sunday with their owners Rhonda Brown, Hunter, Beate and Achilles Brunhoever, Sylvia Bail, Heather Blackman, Diane Wells, Rev Julia Worrall and Jack and Billy Lowe. Picture: Sam James
Sam James

FOR the first time in more than a decade, pets will be welcomed and blessed during the regular Anglican Church service at 9:30am this Sunday. The special ceremony coincides with World Animal Day, a global celebration honouring Saint Francis of Assisi—the patron saint of animals and ecology—renowned for his deep reverence for all living creatures […]

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