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Tuesday, February 15, 2022

More Holy Ways to Sanctify February Fourteenth!

February Fourteenth Named Saint Valentine's Day Seems Anything But Saintly-What Can We Do?

Scriptures:
  • This is my commandment that you love one another as I have loved you. No greater unconditional love has anyone than this - that they lay down their life for their friends. John 15:12-13
  • For God so loved the world He gave His only begotten Son so that whoever believes in Him shall not perish and have life everlasting. John 3:16

An Ode That is Owed to a Day Man-Made Holy of Olde

How did Saint Valentine's Day start? 
Is this a question in your heart?
Whence and where did it depart,
From being about saintly prayers and kindness
That healed a young woman's blindness?
To become, 
What some,
Use as an excuse,
To ummmm...
This post, part in prose,
Is meant to propose,
A few simple ways,
To return this man-made Holy Day,
To its first intended spirit filled ways.
Saint Valentine Painting by Jacopo Bassano shows Cherubic angels burst through a cloud-covered ominous sky casting a beam of bright light on the head of a young woman bent down before a man dressed in a red robe and close black hat standing in front of her. There is an ornate gold filigreed cross behind the man and he holds a silver ball in his left hand. The picture is set before a large stone gate. Others are there waiting. A young altar boy dressed in a white gathered flowing cape is holding the distaff supporting the cross - his back is to the viewer. An old man with a long beard and balding head is bent forward in the background, A middle-aged woman is seated to the left framing the scene. She appears to have an open book on her lap.
Saint Valentine Baptizing Saint Lucila by Jacopo Bassano 1510-Feb.14 15092 

 When Did Saint Valentine's Day Start?

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