{"id":178,"date":"2004-05-03T19:40:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-03T19:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=178"},"modified":"2004-05-03T19:40:00","modified_gmt":"2004-05-03T19:40:00","slug":"178","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=178","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

“Bless that pet”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ship of Fools<\/em>, the (mostly Anglican) Christian humor e-zine, collects humorous captions of liturgical pet-blessing<\/a> under this introduction: “Animals used to get sacrificed by priests, but in these liberal times, they get blessed up instead.”<\/p>\n

And speaking of Anglicans, this blog<\/a>, by a female Episcopal seminarian, gives me a chuckle, insofar as I was raised a Broad-to-High Church Episcopalian myself, until I bailed out at age 15. She writes that she is “one year closer to being ordained a priest.” <\/p>\n

It’s funny how Episcopalians speak of ordained women as “priests,” i.e., as honorary men. Perhaps the word “priestess” carries too many connotations of flickering flames, tinkling cymbals, diaphanous costumes . . . and erotic Paganism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Bless that pet” Ship of Fools, the (mostly Anglican) Christian humor e-zine, collects humorous captions of liturgical pet-blessing under this introduction: “Animals used to get sacrificed by priests, but in these liberal times, they get blessed up instead.” And speaking of Anglicans, this blog, by a female Episcopal seminarian, gives me a chuckle, insofar as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6xQTg-178","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":766,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=766","url_meta":{"origin":178,"position":0},"title":"Being a fake priest in Japan","author":"Chas S. 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