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Should We Celebrate Valentine’s Day?

 


Valentine’s Day is a Catholic Holiday to venerate a saint named St. Valentinus, a bishop who married people against the Cesar’s edict that no one could marry, so that men could be dedicated to the war effort. It’s a curiosity how Catholic holidays survive in our Protestant circles and the culture at large. I mean we don’t celebrate Mary of Lords or Michaelmas, but St. Valentine’s Day and St. Patrick’s Day is on the Gregorian Calendars most of us use.  The question is what are we to do as Scriptural-Reformed-Christians? We adopted Holy Week, because we believe and celebrate our Lord’s Passion and Resurrection. We celebrate Christmas, the birth of our Lord in the flesh. But those are Christcentric holidays, St. Valentine’s and St. Patrick’s are not. So what ought we do with these holidays that venerate saints of the Romanite Church? I mean the Romanites pray to Valentinus and Patrick, asking for their supplications and intercessions, which is antichrist, because we have One mediator and intercessor, “For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus,” (1 Timothy 2:5), and “Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us.” (Romans 8:34).  


I urge we cease celebrating St. Valentine’s Day and St. Patrick’s Days because they are involved in the necromantic prayers and antichrist expectations of dead men who cannot effect anything for us here on earth. It is different for Jesus because He is God and Man. I am  also inclined to bring up we aren’t suppose to do appearance of evil, “Abstain from all appearance of evil.” (1 Thessalonians 5:22, KJV). Its evil to venerate dead saints, to venerate is to worship: 



“Worship 

noun

  1. the feeling or expression of reverence and adoration for a deity."the worship of God" 


Venerate

verb

  1. regard with great respect; revere (reverence)."Mother Teresa is venerated as a saint" 


We are to only worship the Lord!, “Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God and serve him only.’” (Luke 4:8), and “And those in the boat worshiped Him, saying, “Truly you are the Son of God.”(Matthew 14:33). For Jesus is the Lord (Philippians 2:8-9, Romans 10:9). 


But what of couples who want to celebrate Valentine’s Day in a secular way? That they have no desire to venerate a saint, but to dine at a restaurant. Well the point is you still are calling it Valentine’s Day, so that saint and antichrist cult of saints is getting attention regardless if you don’t light a candle to him. So I would urge forgoing the holiday altogether, because it brings worship and attention to someone other than the Lord Jesus, who deserves are fixation, “Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.” (Hebrews 12:2). We are called to focus on the Lord, not focus on ‘canonized’ saints by the corrupt Roman Catholic Church with its many errors and antichrist rites & teachings. 


We need to be conscious of the little things that we may be participating in that compromise a pure and simple devotion to Christ (2 Corinthians 11:2). What matters more is our relationship with the Lord Jesus, not the pressure to celebrate a holiday that is antichrist in its veneration of a man. We worship The Son of Man (Jesus), not just some man. Amen. 


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