homework help: Why don’t Catholics celebrate Valentine’s Day? - Help.com

im catholic and me and my church celebrate it…soo idk

Maybe they think its not to important

i am catholics and i we do celebrate

Hmm, I never realized that St. Valentine was Multiple Man in disguise. More research is needed!

that’s true WhiskeyMac.

I feel it’s over commercialized so it dims down the spirit of the holiday. Much like Christmas and Thanksgiving.

that’s true

ya they do

well i really don’t know

The story of Valentines Day begins during the heyday of the Roman Empire, which held a festival every February. This Lupercian Festival was held in honor of the God of Fertility and during the festivities young men would get to choose their mate. At the time marriage was a common occurrence, but when Claudius became Emperor he changed all of that. Fearing that men would refuse their duty to fight because they would not want to leave their wives behind, he outlawed all marriages. Young couples still fell in love though and still wished to marry and they took these desires to the Catholic Bishop Valentine who, understanding love, began to secretly marry couples. When Claudius found out, he had Valentine arrested and ordered put to death. While waiting in jail, Valentine began exchanging letters with the jailer’s daughter and soon had fallen in love with her. The day he was to be beheaded, he wrote her one last note and signed it: ‘From Your Valentine’.

In 496 A.D. Christianity had taken over Rome and Pope Gelasius outlawed the pagen Lupercian Festival. Knowing it’s popularity, he looked to replace it with something more ‘appropriate’ and set aside a day in February to honor the martyr St. Valentine. Even though in 1969 the church removed St. Valentines Day from it’s calendar of ‘official’ holidays, it is still widely celebrated today.

i dont even no why anaim one ill try to find out for u and i have not been on ma page 4 along time because i had alot of things to do ok w/b

Wikipedia has alot of interesting things about Valentines Day. Thanks.

Pretty sneaky opening sentence there, CMT! Got me to read your post!
Glad to see you are back on the job and feeling pretty perky and refreshed after your holiday. Bet you have myriads of experiences to reflect on. Sure hope you went some place warm–from what the tellie shows you guys are really getting dumped with snow and winter.

Happy Valentine’s Day, CMT.
Blessings.

Words to live by. Happy belated Valentine’s.

catholic schools don’t honor valentines day because its a holiday to not all people and they may feel guilty of honoring a holiday for half of your school and not the other half. but otherwise i’m only 14 so i’m just writing what i believe is true. i hope this may’ve helped you.