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“Although the mid-February holiday celebrating love and lovers remains wildly popular, the confusion over its origins led the Catholic Church, in 1969, to drop Saint Valentine’s Day from the Roman calendar of official, worldwide Catholic feasts. (Those highly sought-after days are reserved for saints with more clear historical record. After all, the saints are real individuals for us to imitate.)

Catholic televised Mass Readings and Homily for the Memorial of Saints Cyril, Monk, and Methodius, Bishop, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019, from EWTN in Alabama. [Click here for Mass Readings]

Catholic TV Mass for the Memorial of Saints Cyril, Monk, and Methodius, Bishop, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019, from Catholic TV in the Archdiocese of Boston. [Click here for Mass Readings] [featured image is file photo]

“‘… Do you not realize that everything that goes into a person from outside cannot defile, since it enters not the heart but the stomach and passes out into the latrine?” (Thus he declared all foods clean.) “But what comes out of the man, that is what defiles him. From within the man, from his heart, come evil thoughts, unchastity,

“… Whatever villages or towns or countryside He entered, they laid the sick in the marketplaces and begged Him that they might touch only the tassel on His Cloak; and as many as touched It were healed.”

“… Peter’s faith is strengthened by his obedience to the Lord’s command. …”

Catholic televised Mass Readings and Homily for the Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Feb. 10, 2019, from EWTN in Alabama. [Click here for Mass Readings]

Catholic TV Mass for the Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Feb. 10, 2019, from Catholic TV in the Archdiocese of Boston. [Click here for Mass Readings] [featured image is file photo]

Televised Catholic Mass for the Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Feb. 10, 2019, from Loretto Abbey in the Archdiocese of Toronto. [Click here for Mass Readings] [featured image adapted from image at Creative Commons Wikimedia Commons Pjposullivan, commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Loretto_Abbey_chapel_interior,_Toronto.JPG, with additional conditions stated at that link and in the alt-tag here]