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On many Saturdays, the priest celebrating the day's Mass may choose a Mass of Our Lady. This memorial is optional: the priest instead may use readings and prayers for the calendar day.

Our saint gave his life for the faith in the Church's early days, martyred in the third century under a Roman emperor. A priest, Valentine helped persecuted Christians, and performed secret marriages for couples forbidden to wed under Roman law. In prison for his religion, Valentine converted his jailer and his jailer's daughter. On the eve of his beheading, St. Valentine signed a note to the girl, "Your Valentine," from which we have our popular saying on this holiday.

Father Phillip McKenzie will be visiting our parish to speak on behalf of FOOD FOR THE POOR during the weekend of February 15. Since, 1982, Food for the Poor has helped poor people in Latin America and in the Caribbean.