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Originally Posted by Pastor Ezekiel
WHERE DID St. Valentine's Day come from?
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Good question.
Let
me tell you.
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Originally Posted by Pastor Ezekiel
You might suppose school teachers and educators would know. But do they? How many of you were ever taught the real origin of Valentine's Day? -- were ever told in school WHY you should observe the custom of exchanging valentines?
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You are right here in indicating that your american schools teach far too less about the vitas of the important Catholic saints.
It is sad, but it is never too late to learn.
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Originally Posted by Pastor Ezekiel
Isn't it time we examined why we encourage our children to celebrate St. Valentine's Day -- when it is never so much as mentioned in the Bible as a practice of the Church?
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It is also not mentioned in the Bible that you should follow the KJV only, and still your church is very strict to do so.
What can that mean?
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Originally Posted by Pastor Ezekiel
Did you know that centuries before Christ, the pagan Romans celebrated February 15 and the evening of February 14 as an idolatrous and sensuous festival in honor of Lupercus, the "hunter of wolves"?
The Romans called the festival the "Lupercalia." The custom of exchanging valentines and all the other traditions in honor of Lupercus -- the deified hero-hunter of Rome -- was also linked anciently with the pagan practice of teen-agers "going steady." It usually led to fornication. Today, the custom of "going steady" is thought very modern. It isn't. It is merely a rebirth of an old custom "handed down from the Roman festival of the Lupercalia, celebrated in the month of February, when names of young women were put into a box and drawn out by men as chance directed." That's the admission of the "Encyclopedia Americana", article, "St. Valentine's Day."
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That is a false legend, and if you would have diven deeper into Catholic saint-history, you would have found out that the connection came about because traditionally birds are supposed to pair on St. Valentines feast day, februar 14th.
Surely you find nothing pagan in birds, since the Holy Spirit came down to Jesus at his baptizing in the form of a dove
It is a fact that in Austria the Erzbistum Mainz is in possession of very special holy reliquies :
Eggs and Feathers from the Holy Spirit.
St.Valentine was a beloved bishop in rome and stands for love, as does in truth the whole body of the Catholic church
You must have no fear to choose your Valentine on his appointed feast Day, because the saint will surely bless you for that
