Happy St. Valentine's Day!
Well today is the day we honour the life of St. Valentine, whose life teaches us the meaning of true love. Catholic Cavemen give an intereting take on this holiday and how it has been perverted.
posted by Perun at
11:13 AM
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I just want to mention it's become common to call the day "Valentine's Day" instead of its proper name, St. Valentine's Day, as it's called in the log entry, of course. I was guilty of this mistake until one day it suddenly struck me that it was wrong. Now, I'm always careful to say "St. Valentine's Day" and I correct my children if they leave off the "Saint" part. As all aware people know, there's a drive to destroy Christianity in the U.S. and even in Europe. As part of that drive, Christmas has come under assault, Easter has been attacked (there is opposition now being publicly voiced to the "Easter Bunny" tradition for kids, on grounds it "excludes others," and what used to be the Easter Vacation for college students has now been changed to the meaningless "Spring Break"), and Thanksgiving has the target of attack in the sense that it keeps denied that the Pilgrim Fathers were thanking God at that initial celebration, the claim being that their only purpose in organizing it was to thank the Red Indians for their help. The Red Men certainly helped the Pilgrims and deserved their deepest thanks, but the truth is that in the first Thanksgiving Festival the Pilgrims (and likely the Red Men too, in their own way -- around 90 of them attended, at the invitation of the Pilgrims) were giving thanks to God for their survival up to that point.
In light of all this aggression directed against Christianity in today's world, I for one try to remember never to leave off the "St." from the name of the holiday, "St. Valentine's Day."
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