NIGHT PRAYER: On the Eve of Valentine's Day

The church's liturgical calendar no longer commemorates St. Valentine but in the world around us it remains a special day of romantic greetings and gifts of roses and sweets.

It's unfortunate that Valentine's Day is associated almost entirely with romantic love. There are so many kinds of love that people share - love whose source and sustenance is much deeper and greater than an "arrow from Cupid's bow." The Valentine industry may boom this week but soon enough the roses will droop and the heart-shaped boxes will be empty. When the trappings of the day are behind us, those who know and share a deeper kind of love will have something greater to treasure than a pretty card and a verse composed by a Hallmark employee.

Loving and lovable people come to this page all the time, some every day. I pray tonight that all of you see how wonderful you are in the eyes of the Lord, the Lover who offers you his heart and writes these tender words upon yours:

I have loved you
with an everlasting love
I have called you
and you are mine!

 

And to make the Lord's words even more personal, try praying them tonight, inserting your own name in the verse:

 

(__________)

I have loved you
with an everlasting love
I have called you
and you are mine!

 

And do pray those words over and over again - for who ever tires of being told they are loved?

I Have Loved You by Michael Joncas 

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I have loved you with an everlasting love
I have called you, and you are mine
I have loved you with an everlasting love
I have called you, and you are mine

 

Seek the face of the Lord and long for him,

he will bring you his light and his peace

 

Seek the face of the Lord and long for him,

he will bring you his joy and his hope

 

Seek the face of the Lord and long for him,

he will bring you his care and his love 

Protect me, Lord, while I'm awake

    and watch over me while I sleep

that awake, I might keep watch with you

    and asleep, rest in your peace...

 

Amen.

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