’Tis the season. Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukah, Kwanzaa, Boxing Day, plus the high holy moment of goodwill when we return all those gifts.
Also, time for my seventh annual Blessing of the Animals for every feathered and furry Fido and Fluffy, big or small, that barks, meows, chirps or oinks. Everyone welcome — bring your adored family pet for the new year blessing.
WHEN: Sunday, Dec. 13. 2 p.m.
WHERE: Christ Church, 524 Park Ave., at 60th Street.
WHAT: The hour ecumenical service includes the Roosevelt High School choir caroling, a procession of pigs, goats, chicks, etc., from Farm To You Revue, rescues, our own pets, NYPD dogs with handlers, and police horses (outside because pews can only accommodate paws).
All come to the altar for personal individual Blessing from Christ Church’s Senior Minister Stephen Bauman and Central Synagogue’s Rabbi Emeritus Peter J. Rubinstein.
No reservations, open seating on a first-come, first-served basis. Space is limited. Come early. No RSVP required. The blessing goes on despite rain, shine, snow or traffic.
Greeters are the two Yorkies who run my life. Jazzy, 4 pounds, who can find his water bowl, food bowl, treats and toys but never his wee-wee pad. And his 3 ¹/₂ -pound. sister, Juicy, who cares only for food. She’d like even Obama if he fed her.
All doves, turtles, bunnies, cats, canaries, gerbils, hamsters, fish in a bowl, whatevers must be accompanied by their owners. No people without their family’s loved creatures, nor do we welcome iguanas without their mothers and fathers. All parents must be accompanied by their adored live-in creatures.
(Despite being housebroken, husbands occasionally in need of a leash are excluded.)
The blessing is free to all. We gratefully accept donations even in new appropriate toys which go to NYC Animal Care & Control’s shelter pets.
Co-sponsors are the HeavenBlessUs New York Post — enormously blessed by my continued presence and created by Broadway dude Alexander Hamilton — plus Realtor Peter Kalikow, who once owned the
NY Post, plus philanthropist/mayoral candidate John Catsimatidis.
We couldn’t do it without help from . . .
Also sponsoring this blessed event are No. 1 top-ranked, oldest vet college Cornell’s University College of Veterinary Medicine, which granted USA’s first veterinary doctor’s degree. Its teaching hospital is in Ithaca. Its emergency Animal Health Diagnostic Center is in Stamford, Conn.
Plus the Baker Institute for Animal Health, whose discoveries in infectious diseases, hip dysplasia, vaccines, afford millions of pets immediate relief and long-term care.
Sunday, Dec. 13, 2 p.m., Christ Church, 60th and Park. My Blessing of the Animals.
‘Youth’ gone wild at Le Cirque
Promoting their movie “Youth,” its cast inhaled Le Cirque’s bronzino and teeny potatoes, where Jane Fonda stood to tell reporters age is not a chronological number, whatever that means. Sir Michael Caine agreed. But he, age 82, stayed comfortably seated near the food.
And Paul Dano said he likes best being “back in Brooklyn because I know my neighborhood butcher and bar at the corner.” This at least I understood.
You heard of another opening, another show? Forget it. When it’s another movie, it’s another Peggy Siegal lunch.
Housewife: “I tried to bake some holiday biscuits, but I think Pillsbury’s Doughboy is getting old. They wouldn’t rise.” From a big-mouth mama.
Only in New York, kids, only in New York.