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The Carmelite church at Whitefriar Street in Dublin is an unlikely but popular pilgrimage site for couples, who can venerate the patron of love’s relics.
To the secular world, St. Valentine is synonymous with cards, chocolates and lavish gifts of roses to mark this saint’s day.
But for the prior of Dublin’s Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel and Shrine of St. Valentine, the saint has a broader important significance to Catholics in understanding and celebrating the sacrament of marriage — with all of its joys and challenges.
“Our vocation is to be the love at the heart of the Church, and it is important that we look at how we communicate that,” Carmelite Father James Eivers told the Register.
Throngs of visitors are expected to visit the shrine on Feb. 14, and the priest wants them to know the Church’s view of marriage.
“The foundation of sacramental marriage is that vocation to love that God gives to married couples, supported through God’s grace, and the feast of St. Valentine is an opportunity to celebrate that love,” Father Eivers said.
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To the secular world, St. Valentine is synonymous with cards, chocolates and lavish gifts of roses to mark this saint’s day.
But for the prior of Dublin’s Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel and Shrine of St. Valentine, the saint has a broader important significance to Catholics in understanding and celebrating the sacrament of marriage — with all of its joys and challenges.
“Our vocation is to be the love at the heart of the Church, and it is important that we look at how we communicate that,” Carmelite Father James Eivers told the Register.
Throngs of visitors are expected to visit the shrine on Feb. 14, and the priest wants them to know the Church’s view of marriage.
“The foundation of sacramental marriage is that vocation to love that God gives to married couples, supported through God’s grace, and the feast of St. Valentine is an opportunity to celebrate that love,” Father Eivers said.
Continued below.
The Shrine of St. Valentine: Sacramental Marriage and Love ‘at the Heart of the Church’
The Carmelite church at Whitefriar Street in Dublin is an unlikely but popular pilgrimage site for couples, who can venerate the patron of love’s relics.
