Save The Date : Blessing Of The Animals at St Lukes Montclair 7 October 2012

Each year on the first Sunday of October at 4pm, St Luke's Episcopal Church on South Fullerton in Montclair NJ celebrates St Francis Day with the Blessing of the Animals.

Companion animals are such a blessing in the lives of so many people; on Sunday 7 October reciprocate those blessings at St Lukes.

 Each year a cadre of cats, rodents, birds and even a horse come to receive a blessing, but the dogs will be the first to declare that "cat" spelled backwards is nothing.

That's Archibold in the center of the photo with a new friend who looks remarkably like Rosalita but alas it's not her.