☦ Eastern Orthodox Christian Prayer for Our Animal Children and All Animals in Creation.

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St. Basil's Prayer for Animals~

In the Eastern Orthodox Christian Tradition, this prayer attributed to St. Basil the Great of Cappadocia is particularly touching. There are teachings of the Church Fathers that speak of a state of blessedness between man and all of God's creation, and there are many touching stories from the lives of the saints which bare this out.

Let us pray~

"The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof.

God, enlarge within us the sense of fellowship with all living things, our little brothers, to whom Thou hast given this earth as their home in common with us.

May we realize they they live not for us alone, but for themselves and for Thee, and that they love the sweetness of life even as we and that they serve Thee better in their place, than we in ours."

Amen