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Happy Saint Valentines Day!!! |
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Valentine, Saint. — At least three different Saint Valentines, all of them martyrs, are mentioned in the early martyrologies under date of 14 February. One is described as a priest at Rome, another as Bishop of Interamna (the modern Terni), and these two seem both to have suffered in the second half of the third century and to have been buried on the Flaminian Way, but at different distances from the city. In Wilham of Malmesbury's time what was known to the ancients as the Flaminian Gate of Rome and is now the Porta del Popolo, was called the Gate of St. Valentine. The name seems to have been taken from a small church dedicated to the saint which was in the immediate neighborhood. Of both tliese St. Valentines some sort of Acta are preserved but they are of relatively late date and of no historical value. Of the third St. Valentine who suffered in Africa with a number of companions nothing further is known.
The popular customs connected with Saint Valentine's Day undoubtedly haii their origin in a conventional behalf generally received in England and France during the Middle Ages, that on 14 February, i. e. half way through the second month of the year, the birds began to jwir. Thus in Chaucer's "Parliament of Foules" we read;
For this was on Saint Valentine's day
When every foul cometh there to choose his mate.
For this reason the day was looked upon as specially consecrated to lovers and as a proper occasion for writing love letters and sending lovers' tokens. Both the French and English literatures of the fourteenth
and fifteenth centuries contain allusions to the practice. Perhaps the earliest is to be found in the 34th and 3.5th ''Ballades" of the bilingual poet, John Gower. written in French; but Lydgate and Clauvowe supply other examples. Those who chose each other under these circumstances seem to have been called by each other their Valentines. In the "Paston Letters", Dame Elizabeth Brews writes thus about a match she hopes to make for her daughter (we modernize the spelling), addressing the favored suitor: "And, cousin mine, upon Monday is St. Valentine's day and every bird chooseth himself a mate, and if it like you, to come on Thursday night, and make provision that you may abide till then, I trust to God that ye shall speak to my husband and I shall pray that we may bring the matter to a conclusion." Shortly after the young lady herself wrote a letter to the same man addressing it "Unto my right well beloved Valentine, John Paston Esquire". The custom of choosing and sending valentines has of late years fallen into comparative desuetude.
Herbert Thurston.
Taken From The Catholic Encyclopedia Published 1907
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Deliverance Prayers: For Use by the Laity |
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Prayers for use by the laity in waging spiritual warfare from the public domain and the Church's treasury. The book has an imprimatur from the Archdiocese of Denver.
$14.95
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Magnificat Lent Companion 2021 |
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A Companion for the Forty Days of Lent (from Ash Wednesday to Easter Sunday)
Designed in a convenient, easy-to-use format:
- Inspiring daily reflections from some of the most gifted Catholic writers
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$5.95
Also available in large print $7.95
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QOA Book Club |
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Book:
Live Not By Lies A Manual For Christian Dissidents
In Live Not By Lies, Rod Dreher amplifies the alarm sounded by the brave men and women who fought totalitarianism. He explains how the totalitarianism facing us today is based less on overt violence and more on psychological manipulation. He tells the stories of modern-day dissidents--clergy, laity, martyrs, and confessors from the Soviet Union and the captive nations of Europe--who offer practical advice for how to identify and resist totalitarianism in our time. Following the model offered by a prophetic World War II-era pastor who prepared believers in his Eastern European to endure the coming of communism, Live Not By Lies teaches American Christians a method for resistance:
• SEE: Acknowledge the reality of the situation.
• JUDGE: Assess reality in the light of what we as Christians know to be true.
• ACT: Take action to protect truth.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn famously said that one of the biggest mistakes people make is assuming totalitarianism can't happen in their country. Many American Christians are making that mistake today, sleepwalking through the erosion of our freedoms. Live Not By Lies will wake them and equip them for the long resistance.
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Happy 75th. Birthday Bishop Felipe Estévez!
Bishop of St. Augustine
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123 Days
Until the 2021 Florida Eucharistic Congress*
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(*123 days as of 2-1-2021)
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St. Bridgid of Ireland
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Presentation of Child Jesus in the Temple
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St. Blaise
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St. Joseph of Leonessa
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St. Agatha
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St. Paul Miki & Companions
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5th. Sunday of Ordinary Time
St. Colette of Corbie
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St. Jerome Emiliani
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Bl. Marianus Scotus
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St. Scholastica
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Our Lady of Lourdes
Lateran Treaty Day
(Anniversary of the foundation of Vatican City)
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St. Saturninus & Companions
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St. Catherine de Ricci
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6th. Sunday of Ordinary Time
St. Valentine
St. Cyril & St. Methodius
Valentine's Day
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St. Claude de la Colombiere
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St. Onesimus
Ordinary Time Stops for Lent & Easter
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Ash Wednesday
Lent Starts
Founders of the Orders of Servites
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St. Simon of Jerusalem
Presidents' Day
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St. Eucherius
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St. Peter Damian
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Feast of the Chair of St. Peter the Apostle
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St. Polycarp
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St. Ethelbert
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St. Tarasius
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St. Porphyrius
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St. Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows
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2nd. Sunday of Lent
St. Hilary
(29: St. Auguste Chapdelaine)
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