Saint Valentine's Day - February 14th

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Chaplet of Saint Valentine

On The Cross and Heart:

In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit

On The First Bead:

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 labour,
and obtain for us the divine blessing,
that we may be found worthy to join you
in praising the Almighty for all eternity:
through the merits of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
Amen.

On The Middle Three Beads:

Psalm 18 - Psalm of the love for God

or Our Father

Psalm 31 - Love Yahweh all faithful

or Hail Mary

Psalm 119 - Love God's law

or Glory Be

On The Last Bead:

Dear Lord, who art high in the Heavens,
Giver of Love and Passion,
And He who strings the heart's cords,
Lead the Lovers this day, February ten plus four.
The day during the month of two,
When the date is the perfect number of God
Greater two souls and two hearts.
Some Loves are fleeting,
But that which is built on you will never fail.
So guide the Lovers to know what is to be.
Your truths the Lovers' mouths should speak,
For Your truth is that which is honest to the heart.
Only this, then, should pass over the red lips of the Lovers.
Your art, the Lovers simply a medium.
It is only with True Hearts that You can create a Masterpiece,
So let the Lovers remember that their Soul's Desire
Is the one for which You light their Fire.
And let it be You who creates the Art of the Lovers;
The art of two into one.

On The Saint Valentine Metal:  

Grant, we beseech thee, O Almighty God,
that we who solemnize the feast day of Saint Valentine, priest and martyr,
may, by his intercession, be delivered from all the evils that threaten us
Through Christ Our Lord.  Amen

clasp chaplet in hand and conclude with:  Saint Valentine Pray for us.  

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St. Valentine Receiving A Rosary  (David Teniers III)

Saint Valentine Heart Rosary

For this rosary, do not use the chain.  Sign of the Cross to start, Apostles’ Creed or Nicene Creed on the cross, and one Hail Mary on the center piece before concluding prayer

First Bead:

• Sermon by St. Augustine, Bishop

Today we keep our annual celebration of the triumph of the blessed Martyr Valentine, and the Church, while rejoicing in his glory, places him before us, that we may follow in his footsteps. If we suffer with him, we shall be glorified with him. There are two things to be considered in this glorious combat: namely, the hard-hearted cruelty of the torturer, and the unconquered patience of the Martyr--the cruelty of the torturer, that we may detest it; the patience of the Martyr, that we may imitate it. Hear what the Psalmist says in reproof of wickedness: Be not emulous of evildoers, for they shall shortly wither away as grass. But the Apostle teaches patience with the wicked in the words: Patience is necessary for you, that you may receive the promise.

Next Three Beads: 

• An Act of Love

O my God, I love Thee with my whole heart, and above all things, because Thou art infinitely good in Thyself and infinitely to be loved; and for the love of Thee I love my neighbor as myself.

• A Daily Oblation

My God and my all, I most earnestly desire, by my every breath, every thought, every word, every desire, and my every movement of body and soul,--to tell thee a thousand times that I love Thee more than life, or any thing in this world; and I offer and dedicate myself to Thee, renewing my baptismal vows, together with the promises and resolutions of my life past. I offer thee also (and by every movement of my body and soul I desire to renew the oblation) all the praise, thanks, and adoration of the Church militant, triumphant, and suffering; all that it has offered Thee, or will offer to the end of time; all the love, complacency, and delights thou possessest in Thy divine essence; all the homage rendered to Thee by my Savior Jesus Christ in the most adorable Sacrament of the Altar; all the Masses that are now celebrating, have been, or will be celebrated to the end of time, to Thy honor and glory, without any other wish or desire but that of pleasing Thee, loving Thee, living for Thee, and dying for Thee. I am thine, my God and my all; oh, make me so entirely and eternally. Above all, take my heart; extirpate from it all other affections, and make it for the future a furnace of the purest flames of Thy most ardent love. Amen.

• An Act of Contrition 

O Father of mercies! who desirest not the death of sinners; look upon me, a miserable sinner, according to the multitude of Thy mercies. I acknowledge and confess, and am heartily sorry for, all the sins of my past life, and of this day in particular. I cast myself at Thy feet, and beseech Thee to cover all my sins with that infinite love with which Thou hast loved us from all eternity. I grieve from the bottom of my heart that I have been so ungrateful to Thee for Thy benefits, and have so often offended Thee, my God and my chief good. Spare me, I beseech Thee, by the death and love of Jesus Christ thy Son; and mercifully forgive me whatsoever sins I have this day, or heretofore, committed against Thee, my neighbour, or myself.


Next Bead:

• Our Father

Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, they kingdom come, thy will be done here on earth as it is in heaven, give us this day, our daily bread, forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us, and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.  Amen.

The Decades: Glory Be (Our Father) and the Acts of the Love of God (Hail Mary)

Glory Be

1. My God, my sovereign good, would that I had always loved thee!

2. My God, I detest the time in which I loved Thee not.

3. How have I lived so long without Thy holy love!

4. And Thou, my God, how hast Thou borne with me?

5. I thank Thee, O my God, for so much patience.

6. Now I desire to love Thee for ever.

7. I would rather die than cease to love Thee.

8. My God, deprive me of life rather than permit that I should cease to love Thee.

9. The grace I ask of Thee is, that I may always love Thee.

10. With Thy love I shall be happy.

Glory Be


1. My God, I desire to see Thee loved by all men.

2. I should consider it a happiness to give my blood, in order that all men may love Thee.

3. Blind are they who love Thee not.

4. Enlighten them, O my God!

5. Not to love Thee, O Sovereign Good, is the only evil to be feared.

6. Never will I be of the number of those blind souls who love Thee not.

7. Thou, O my God, art my Joy and all my good.

8. I desire to be wholly Thine for ever.

9. Who shall ever be able to separate me from Thy love!

10. Come, all created beings: come, all of you, and love my God.

Glory Be


1. My God, would that I had a thousand hearts to love Thee!

2. Would that I had the hearts of all men to love Thee!

3. How I should rejoice were there many worlds, who might all love Thee!

4. I should be happy if I could love Thee with the heart of all possible creatures.

5. Thou, indeed, dost merit it, O my God!

6. My heart is too poor and too cold to love Thee!

7. O woful insensibility of man, in regard of this Sovereign Good!

8. Oh, the blindness of worldlings, who know not true love!

9. O blessed inhabitants of heaven, who know it and love it!

10. O happy necessity, to love God!

Glory Be


1. O my God, when shall I burn with love for Thee?

2. Oh, how happy would be my lot!

3. But since I know not how to love Thee, I can rejoice at this,
that so many others love Thee with all their hearts.

4. I rejoice at this particularly, that the angels and saints love Thee in heaven.

5. I unite my feeble heart to their inflamed hearts.

6. Would that I could love Thee as well as those saints who have been most inflamed with love for Thee!

7. Would that I had for Thee a love similar to that of St. Mary Magdalene,
St. Catherine, and St. Teresa!

8. Or such as that of St. Augustin, St. Dominic, St. Francis Xavier, St. Philip Neri, St. Aloysius Gonzaga.

9. Or as that which was entertained for Thee by the holy Apostles; and particularly by St. Peter, St. Paul, and the beloved disciple.

10. Or, in fine, as that with which the great patriarch St. Joseph loved Thee.

Glory Be


1. Would, moreover, that I could love Thee as the blessed Virgin loved thee upon earth!

2. As she loved Thee, particularly when she conceived Thy divine Son in her virginal womb, when she brought Him into the world, when she nourished Him with her milk, and when she saw Him die.

3. Would that I could love Thee as she loves Thee now, and as she will love Thee for ever in heaven!

4. But to love Thee as thou deservest to be loved, O God, infinitely good, even this would not suffice.

5. I should wish, moreover, to love Thee as the Divine Word made Man loved Thee.

6. As he loved Thee at His birth.

7. As he loved Thee expiring on the cross.

8. As He loves Thee continually in the tabernacles where he lies hid.

9. As He loves, and shall low Thee for ever.

10. In line, my God, I wish to love Thee as thou lovest us; but since that is impossible, grant that I may love thee as well as I know how, as much as I can, and as much as Thou wishest me. Amen.

Concluding Prayer:

O God, who has prepared invisible rewards for those who love Thee, pour forth some of Thy love into our hearts, to the end that, loving Thee in all and above all, we may obtain the accomplishment of Thy promises, which surpass all desire; through our Lord Jesus Christ.

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St. Valentine Baptizing St. Lucilla  (Jacopo Bassano)