I know that we say that animals don\'t have souls like we do, and this must be true, but I don\'t doubt that in the Restoration Of All Things In Christ (Apocatastasis, per St Gregory of Nyssa & Mar Isaac of Nineveh, not Origen) anything we loved will be with us (see the end of C.S. Lewis\' The Last Battle, which someone (Mtr Kallistos, I think) said was the best commentary on the Apocalypse in English). I fully expect to meet our beloved animals in the Resurrection, including our cats and my wife\'s favorite horse, who I have heard so much about, but who died just about the time we got together and I never met. How could God deprive of us this? How this is to be I don\'t know, but it is part of my hope. Wild animals? Who knows? God is not on a budget.
Prayers? Any prayers of thanksgiving, hope or blessing would be my suggestion. I think the Lord\'s Prayer might work just fine.
Maranatha! Apocatastasis Now!
dorotheos
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