Feb. 14, 2024, is Ash Wednesday. It also just so happens to be Valentine’s Day. This rare occurrence happened three times in the last century – 1923, 1934 and 1945 – and will happen again in 2029 for the final time this century. On online forums, Christians are debating what to do. It’s also become Read more
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Hug a cow on St Valentine’s day
Monday, February 13th, 2023India’s government last Friday withdrew its appeal to citizens to mark Valentine’s Day not as a celebration of romance but as “Cow Hug Day” to better promote Hindu values. The Animal Welfare Board had said Wednesday that “hugging cows will bring emotional richness and increase individual and collective happiness.” Read more
Five myths about Valentine’s Day
Thursday, February 14th, 2019St Valentine’s day wasn’t invented by greeting-card companies. We inherited our contemporary version of Valentine’s Day from the Victorians, but some accounts — such as a story last year in Lifehacker and another from NPR on “The Dark Origins of Valentine’s Day” — have argued that the “real” history of the holiday can be traced all the way back Read more
Cardinal Dew’s 2015 Valentine’s Day Mass YouTube
Tuesday, February 17th, 2015Cardinal John’s message to participants at the 2015 Valentine’s Day Mass, Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, Wellington. In recent years there has been a Mass celebrated in Wellington’s Cathedral on Valentine’s Day. Because Cardinal Dew was in Rome to be made a Cardinal he pre-recorded his message. Watch Youtube video
Pope’s Valentine’s Day recipe for successful marriage
Tuesday, February 18th, 2014
“Please, thanks, and sorry”, is Pope Francis recipe for a lasting marriage. The Holy Father offered this advice on Friday, St Valentine’s Day, to 10,000 engaged couples from 30 different countries, who accepted his offer of ‘a special date’ and joined him in St Peter’s Square. Speaking to the fiancés, Francis said expressions of courtesy, Read more