Rule of the Order of the Little Sisters of the Homeless Pets
The Sisters don't really care what time you get up, when you pray, what church you attend, or any of that stuff. God calls people to worship in different ways. Seeing as how this is a virtual convent, it's up to you to decide where you fit in:
Novice: To become a novice, you have to have saved an animal from a shelter, from the street or from some a-hole who was mistreating it.
If you can’t adopt an animal due to your landlord’s rules or your allergies, you can fulfill novitiate requirements by donating to an animal shelter or exhorting stupid pet owners to take better care of their animals. Sister Jean will post public service announcements you can cut and paste on paper and leave on the windshields of bad pet owners' cars.
Using these PSAs counts as "exhortation of stupid pet owners."
Oblate: Those who have fulfilled the novice requirements and wish to move up a notch may take the vow of humility: Lord, you made the animals first, and they have a special place in Your heart; give me the humility to love them and be a faithful steward to them.
Cat owners may waive the vow of humility; the Sisters realize that catering to a cats many needs keeps you humble enough.
Oblates must also take a vow of poverty: Lord, the animals do not wear Prada, neither do they have money to buy it, and if they did, they would only wad it up to make a nest in. Help me share in the riches of the natural life that the animals try to teach us.
Oblates must also pray for all animals on St. Francis’s Day (Oct. 4), which is the main feast day of the order.
Sister: Those who have fulfilled novice and oblate requirements, may become sisters of the order and follow the Rule:
Sisters may eat meat provided they understand and avoid, to the best of their ability, animals raised and slaughtered in cruel ways. Eating veal is a grave sin. The Order does encourage sisters to reduce their meat, fish and poultry consumption for several reasons: Fewer animals raised for food means less ground and water pollution; fewer animals raised for food means less animal suffering; less meat and more vegetables improves the health of the sisters themselves.
Sisters may hunt and fish so long as they do their best to minimize animal suffering and eat what they catch. In fact, the sisters believe that hunting and fishing involves far less animal suffering than livestock farming, and sisters are encouraged to raise their own meat animals in humane conditions where possible.
“They’re pets until they’re in the pot,” should be every sister’s motto.
Sisters should purchase personal care products that have “not tested on animals” the packaging.
Sisters may wear leather or fur from animals harvested for that purpose provided that the rest of the animal is slaughtered for food. For example, cowhide shoes, pigskin handbags, and mouton or shearling coats are fine.
Fur from animals raised strictly for fur (such as mink or chinchilla) or fur from endangered species is forbidden (and anyhow most sisters can’t afford it on account of the vow of poverty, see above).
Sisters attend to all prayer requests posted on the blog.
The Sisters don't really care what time you get up, when you pray, what church you attend, or any of that stuff. God calls people to worship in different ways. Seeing as how this is a virtual convent, it's up to you to decide where you fit in:
Novice: To become a novice, you have to have saved an animal from a shelter, from the street or from some a-hole who was mistreating it.
If you can’t adopt an animal due to your landlord’s rules or your allergies, you can fulfill novitiate requirements by donating to an animal shelter or exhorting stupid pet owners to take better care of their animals. Sister Jean will post public service announcements you can cut and paste on paper and leave on the windshields of bad pet owners' cars.
Using these PSAs counts as "exhortation of stupid pet owners."
Oblate: Those who have fulfilled the novice requirements and wish to move up a notch may take the vow of humility: Lord, you made the animals first, and they have a special place in Your heart; give me the humility to love them and be a faithful steward to them.
Cat owners may waive the vow of humility; the Sisters realize that catering to a cats many needs keeps you humble enough.
Oblates must also take a vow of poverty: Lord, the animals do not wear Prada, neither do they have money to buy it, and if they did, they would only wad it up to make a nest in. Help me share in the riches of the natural life that the animals try to teach us.
Oblates must also pray for all animals on St. Francis’s Day (Oct. 4), which is the main feast day of the order.
Sister: Those who have fulfilled novice and oblate requirements, may become sisters of the order and follow the Rule:
Sisters may eat meat provided they understand and avoid, to the best of their ability, animals raised and slaughtered in cruel ways. Eating veal is a grave sin. The Order does encourage sisters to reduce their meat, fish and poultry consumption for several reasons: Fewer animals raised for food means less ground and water pollution; fewer animals raised for food means less animal suffering; less meat and more vegetables improves the health of the sisters themselves.
Sisters may hunt and fish so long as they do their best to minimize animal suffering and eat what they catch. In fact, the sisters believe that hunting and fishing involves far less animal suffering than livestock farming, and sisters are encouraged to raise their own meat animals in humane conditions where possible.
“They’re pets until they’re in the pot,” should be every sister’s motto.
Sisters should purchase personal care products that have “not tested on animals” the packaging.
Sisters may wear leather or fur from animals harvested for that purpose provided that the rest of the animal is slaughtered for food. For example, cowhide shoes, pigskin handbags, and mouton or shearling coats are fine.
Fur from animals raised strictly for fur (such as mink or chinchilla) or fur from endangered species is forbidden (and anyhow most sisters can’t afford it on account of the vow of poverty, see above).
Sisters attend to all prayer requests posted on the blog.
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