Attend Mass
In spite of the fact that St. Valentine is one of the most widely celebrated and revered saints in the Catholic calendar, the feast of St. Valentine was removed from the calendar in the 1960s.
If you would like to attend a traditional Mass for the feast, find a Traditional Latin Mass near you (click here to explore).
Write a Valentine’s Day Card
Write a Valentine’s Day card to your spouse, betrothed, or courtee.
Read St. Ephrem’s Hymn Concerning Our Lord and St. John
A nice tradition is to have a champagne toast, and give roses and heart-shaped gifts on St. Valentine’s day.
Wish People a Happy St. Valentine’s Day
Obviously, modern society has scrubbed many of our Catholic feasts of their religious significance. One way of challenging that trend and bringing some holiness to the day is to wish people a happy SAINT Valentine’s day!
Read the Canticle of Canticles
Some of the poetry found in Solomon’s Canticle of Canticles—a Book which uses marital love as a metaphor for God’s love for His Church—cannot be surpassed for Valentine’s Day spiritual inspiration.
Take some time today to read some selections with loved ones and friends.
Pray the Novena to St. Valentine
Pray once a day for nine days, especially starting on February 5 and ending on the eve of St. Valentine’s Day (February 14).
O glorious advocate and protector, Saint Valentine, look with pity upon our wants, hear our requests, attend to our prayers, relieve by your intercession the miseries under which we labor, and obtain for us the Divine blessing, that we may be found worthy to join thee in praising the Almighty for all eternity; through the merits of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
Pray, then, O holy Martyr, for the faithful, who are so persevering in celebrating thy memory. The day of Judgment will reveal to us all thy glorious merits. Oh! intercede for us, that we may then be made thy companions at the right hand of the Great Judge, and be united with thee eternally in heaven.
Let us pray: Grant, we beseech thee, O Almighty God, that we who solemnize the festival of blessed Valentine, Thy Martyr, may, by his intercession, be delivered from all the evils that threaten us. Through Christ our Lord.
Amen.
(Mention your intentions here.)
Saint Valentine, advocate and protector, pray for us.
Say one Our Father, one Hail Mary, and one Glory Be.