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FEBRUARY 14: THE PATRON OF LOVE
Saint Valentinus of Rome
Priest and Martyr
Died: uncertain
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St. Valentine was a Roman priest and martyr. Some accounts say that he was a bishop, probably due to another saint with the same name remembered of this day: St. Valentine of Terni (although many hagiographers consider them as one and the same). It is said that Valentine was a physician. He was arrested and jailed for helping Christians in prison. While in prison, he restored the sight of a jailer’s daughter. He was later beheaded.

Prayer to Saint Valentine
Patron of Lovers

Dear Saint Valentine, you championed God's love by performing marriages for soldiers and their sweethearts, against the edict of the Roman Emperor. Because of that, you were martyred for the Faith and became the Patron of Lovers.

O courageous Saint, help us to love God above all else, and to give of ourselves and receive one another through His grace. Help those of us called to marriage to love our spouse with affection and joy. Help those who fervently seek someone with whom they can share their lives to meet the person God has prepared for them. May all of us grow to love Jesus, our true Valentine, forever. Amen.

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A woman who proposed to legalize abortion in the South Dakota legislature withdrew her proposal, citing no chance at success.

Pray for Linda Gibbons, a brave pro-life woman who has been imprisoned by the tyrannical Dominion of Canada for silent prayer since February 13.

Please pray for the newborn daughter of our founder. She's being transferred to the NICU for an infection.

Before we retire for the evening, as we say our evening prayers, let us offer prayers for the repose of the Christian souls, Catholic and Protestant alike, Innocents all, murdered by the Allied forces in Dresden in February 80 years ago.

Hundreds of thousands of women and children, the old and inform, so many of whom sought shelter in the great churches of the city, were incinerated alive in a firebombing hellstorm. The ungodly war crime would foreshadow the nuns burned alive in the Allied bombing of Monte Cassino and the innumerable faithful Catholics vaporized in Japan by the Atom Bomb, and remind us that though our battle is against principalities and powers, the enemy will not hesitate to attack on every front and with every weapon available.

Let us be as ruthless in our war on the Devil and on our sins as his servants are in dealing with the innocents in the path of their base ambitions. Let us labor as tirelessly for our incorruptible crown as they do for their corruptible crowns.