The service was actually on the 3rd of November- St Hubertus Day. I hunted for 7+ years in Germany and Luxembourg (and may have even poached in France and Belgium). St Hubertus Day was a very big deal. Our parish (St Alban's Episcopal) has a very large percentage of members who hunt (or hunted). So we started an annual event a number of years ago and it is very popular. It concludes with a blessing of the hunter, his/her hound (dog), gun, and whatever game was taken that day and in large part is based on a traditional German service in the Rhineland. We only lacked a horn to play the traditional signal for the fallen game bird. Perhaps next year.
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