Category Archive 'Blessing Hounds'

14 Jan 2010

The Annual Blessing of the Gadgets

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Rev. Thomas Crowder of St. Columba’s, Warrenton, VA, blessing the Ashland Bassets at their opening meet last October

Personally, I tend to find the survival here in Virginia of the traditional blessing of the hounds at the commencement of the season sufficiently quaint.

In England, one clergyman, at least, has updated the antique practice of blessing the agricultural tools on Plough Monday into the blessing of his parishioners electronic gadgets. I doubt it did anything to improve Vista though.


Reverend Canon David Parrott, of the St Lawrence Jewry Church in London, blesses his parishioners’ gadgets


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