Valentine’s Day has become, for the most part, a commercial holiday where merchants all vie for the Valentine’s Day card, flower, gift and dining business. If a florist does not make a big profit on Valentines Day and Easter the entire year will prove dismal. This is not the way for which the day was intended. St Valentine sent his ‘heart” to a woman while he was imprisoned. That woman was not his wife or his lover but the daughter of the jailer who was in charge of his captivity. She was a woman who suffered from blindness whom he was asked, by her father, to heal. They both shared a great compassion for one another and all humanity. [Read more...]