who hates valentines day. i do.

humanji wrote: »

Ooh, learnt something new today. Can happily turn off the brain for the rest of the day.

There' s shrine at the back of Whitefriars' Church.
Contains the relics of St. Valentine but other cities have relics as well.
Prague uses it very cleverly to attract tourists, for example.
Dublin doesn't.

The flower-crowned skull of St. Valentine is exhibited in the Basilica of Santa Maria in Cosmedin, Rome.
In 1836, some relics that were exhumed from the catacombs of Saint Hippolytus on the Via Tiburtina, then near (rather than inside) Rome, were identified with St Valentine; placed in a casket, and transported to the procession to the high altar for a special Mass dedicated to young people and all those in love.
Also in 1836, Fr. John Spratt, an Irish priest and famous preacher, was given many tokens of esteem following a sermon in Rome. One gift from Pope Gregory XVI were the remains of St. Valentine and "a small vessel tinged with his blood." The Reliquary was placed in Whitefriar Street Church in Dublin, Ireland, and has remained there until this day. This was accompanied by a letter claiming the relics were those of St. Valentine. The letter can be seen in the wall next to the shrine.
Another relic was found in 2003 in Prague in Church of St Peter and Paul at Vyšehrad.
Alleged relics of St. Valentine also lie at the reliquary of Roquemaure in France, in the Stephansdom in Vienna, in Balzan in Malta and also in Blessed John Duns Scotus' church in the Gorbals area of Glasgow, Scotland. There is also a gold reliquary bearing the words 'Corpus St. Valentin, M' (Body of St. Valentine, Martyr) at The Birmingham Oratory, UK, in one of the side altars in the main church.
Saint Valentine remains in the Roman Catholic Church's official list of saints (the Roman Martyrology), but, in view of the scarcity of information about him, his commemoration was removed from the General Calendar for universal liturgical veneration, when this was revised in 1969. It is included in local calendars of places such as Balzan in Malta. Some still observe the calendars of the Roman Rite from the Tridentine Calendar until 1969, in which Saint Valentine was at first celebrated as a simple feast, until 1955, when Pope Pius XII reduced the mention of Saint Valentine to a commemoration in the Mass of the day. It is kept as a commemoration by Traditionalist Roman Catholics who — in accordance with the authorization given by Pope Benedict XVI's motu proprio Summorum Pontificum of July 7, 2007 — use the General Roman Calendar of 1962 and the liturgy of Pope John XXIII's 1962 edition of the Roman Missal, and, as a Simple Feast, by Traditionalist Roman Catholics who use the General Roman Calendar as in 1954.
February 14 is also celebrated as St. Valentine's Day in other Christian Churches; in the Church of England, for example, it was included in Calendars before the Reformation, and S.Valentine, Bishop and Martyr, was restored to the Church's Calendar in the 1661/1662 Book of Common Prayer. He remains in the Calendars of the Church of England and in those of most other parts of the Anglican Communion.

oh sh*t I thought i was done, but i forgot the card. Have to go out in this rain, God I hate this day

No mention of St Valentine in the Catholic calendar for today. The saint for today is St Cyril who died on 14th of Feb 869. He and his brother, St Methodius, were monks who preached the gospel to the Slavs. (The Russian alphabet with the backward letters is called the Cyrillic alphabet after him.) So I suppose it's BROTHERS who should be exchanging presents today.

roro1990 wrote: »

A fit 20 year old girl that I've only seen once in my life agreed to come down to the town that I live in tonight for "drinks". Yet I still haven't texted her confirming this because I'm not sure if i'm arsed. I think I have issues!

Sent her down south

Sunhill wrote: »

No mention of St Valentine in the Catholic calendar for today. The saint for today is St Cyril who died on 14th of Feb 869. He and his brother, St Methodius, were monks who preached the gospel to the Slavs. (The Russian alphabet with the backward letters is called the Cyrillic alphabet after him.) So I suppose it's BROTHERS who should be exchanging presents today.

Peace in the ghetto my brother

Got my woman some flowers and a bear that says I would like to get my paws into you, cooking 3 course dinner and sent her a text saying the present is not from Donegal but rhymes with Lough Swilly :-P

I'm off out to get a nice rope, auto erotic asphyxiation is the name of the game.

kjl wrote: »

tell you what, we'll play a game, I post a picture of me and you post a picture of you and let the public vote who is more attractive.

I'd win hands down if I get to post a picture of myself online