How do the Catholics celebrate the feast day for St. Valentine?
How do the Catholics celebrate the feast day for St. Valentine?
I think this may be a Catholic holiday….How is it usually celebrated?
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Answer by Sara
by having unprotected sex, i think
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I believe the vatican dumped St. Valentine in 1969 along with a lot of other saints
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it is another Pagan festival stolen by christianity
The same way you all do, with hyper-commercialism and the feeling of dread we have no “Valentine” if we’re single. That’s about it. It’s not a Holy Day of Obligation or anything. Just a day of obligation to buy flowers, candy and gushy cards for our spouses or SO’s.
It used to be celebrated by girls and guys drawing the name of a saint and imitating that saint’s virtues for the next year. (A replacement for the earlier pagan custom of year-long mock marriages determined by drawing names.)
Today, we celebrate St. Valentine’s feast day pretty much like everybody else. We may attend a feast day Mass of St. Valentine, but that’s about the only thing we do differently that I’m aware of.
MaidinKent is right.
St. Valentine is not on the Church’s calendar anymore, unfortunately, along with a great many Saints, such as St. Christopher.
Hopefully, one day, the Church will reinstate them all(St. Valentine included).
The Catholic Church has dropped St. Valentine’s Day from the Roman calendar of official, worldwide feasts. Some parishes, however, observe the feast of St. Valentine.
But the holiday has both Roman and Catholic roots.
Just like any one else.
It’s more secular now than religious, so it depends on your couple state. My son and my husband gave me a card and I got one for my husband. That’s about it.