Around the world, February 14th is commonly known as a day for lovers. If you would like to say special prayers for love or ask for a special prayer intention for your family, you may want to pray to St. Valentine for his intercession. St. Valentine was born in the 3rd century in the Roman Empire. He would go on to become a bishop and was ultimately martyred on February 14, 269. Catholics remember him on February 14th for his sacrifice to the faith and say St. Valentine prayers asking for his blessing.
You will receive photos of your printed prayer request placed on the Stone of Anointing; the place where Jesus’ body was prepared for burial after his crucifixion.
St. Valentine Prayers
There are several St. Valentine prayer requests that you can pray not only on Valentine’s Day but throughout the year. Here are some examples:
- Prayer to St. Valentine
Dear Saint and glorious martyr,
Teach us to love unselfishly and to find great joy in giving. Enable all true lovers to bring out the best in each other. Let them love each other in God and in God in each other. - St. Valentine Prayer Request
O glorious advocate and protector, St. 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 you in praising the Almighty for all eternity: through the merits of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. - Prayer to St. Valentine for Protection
Grant, we beseech you, O almighty God, that we who keep the festival of your holy martyr Valentine, may be delivered by his intercession from all dangers that threaten us. Through Our Lord Jesus Christ: Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God forever and ever. Amen. Novena to St. Valentine
O holy Martyr, St. Valentine, pray 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.Antiphon: This Saint fought, even unto death, for the law of his God, and feared not the words of the wicked; for he was set upon a firm rock.
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.
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Our Father, Hail Mary and Glory be to the Father
Of course, there are traditional Valentine’s Day prayers that you can pray for the well-being of a loved one. This is one of the oldest Valentine’s Day prayers:
Dear Lord,
You who art high in the Heavens, the giver of Love and passion, He who strings every heart’s cord, 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 are two souls and two hearts.
Some Love is fleeting, yes, but that which is built on You will never fail.
So guide the Lovers to know what is to be today. 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. It is all Your art … the Lovers simply a medium. It is only with True Hearts that You can create Your Masterpiece within them, so let the Lovers remember that their soul’s desire is the one for which You light the fire;
and let it be You who creates the art of the Lovers; the art of two into one.
Amen.
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