Happy Valentine’s Day to all the romantics out there! Have a LOVE-ly day! ❤
Lent starts on Valentine’s Day in 2018.
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What follows are my past posts about February 14. The first is about the two Saints Valentine and the second discusses the traditions surrounding this day:
A bit of history about Valentine’s Day (2015)
More history about Valentine’s Day (2016)
The third is about the totalitarian — secular and religious — rejection of love and romance:
Valentine’s Day ‘shameful’ to totalitarians (2017)
As we begin Lent, these past posts of mine explain why traditional Catholics and some Protestants, especially Anglicans and Lutherans, observe this 40-day season:
Lent, denominational differences and freedom in Christ
It is also worth noting that, centuries ago, Lent started earlier than it does now:
St Athanasius and the Lenten practices of the early Church
Lent in the early Church — not a pagan practice
The Sundays before Lent — an explanation
May those of us observing this season have a spiritually enriched Lent.
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