St Valentine Day For Kids

Posted on Monday, August 25th, 2008 at 7:50 pm

When Valentine took the stick (or rather, the Creative cards and messengers secret love) for bad lovers stationed at the end 17, but he does not know what a tendency to break! Because soon, their efforts were honored by the appointment of a special day after him (though he does not live see it) and fans around the world now (thank you to the advertising and marketing style of business different in the world) to celebrate own day as this: to profess his love for someone shouted from the rooftops, or associates, the partners propose to the commitments and marriages and what not!

Among school children laughing geriatric couples, office assistants to university students for the first time lovers Romeo's eyes wild, there are many people looking to find your best partner for a date on Valentine's Day. Of course, for those lucky which are already in a committed relationship, there is a way to celebrate the issue of a question in their minds, but the rest of the day, let alone find a date for V-Day as the Queen is entitled to all their friends are talking about. Sometimes, if there is a good atmosphere at work, colleagues informally in May issue of who you go out with and for V-Day plans, so that there can be many scenarios that we May need to address the problem of having a date for Valentine's Day. We help keep the top of the situation - more here!

However, couples should avoid even initiated the presumption that the other might have developed plans for V-Day and will actually ask (politeness, if romance and reflection), his partner about what they would like to do before making arrangements for a big surprise. Knowing the interest your partner, how would spend Valentine's Day (romantic dinner, the choice of gifts in the interest of drama, for example) is important to glean especially for those who have recently started dating.

Sometimes those who have been dating a short time, you may need more peace of what role they play in the game of seduction before deciding what kind of preparation to do to celebrate Valentine's: like going over a week holiday late at night or dinner and drinks, etc., or even buy gift jewelry. These turning points in any relationship must be determined first before making plans for the celebrations of V-Day will not be disappointed by the reaction of the couple or the result of the event.

It is therefore desirable for couples who have recently started coming to determine how the other feels about them and spending Valentine's Day Overall, the evaluation of feelings against their own plans and then have both people involved as well. This minimizes misunderstandings between the couple and also help the person requested that the judge of the Valentine's date with one foot in the relationship. The worst may be if you made plans developed only to find no time to respond in the same way, it is better to see the feelings of the possible date on which the current relationship. Fans and secret crushes are very romantic, but secretly yearns for someone and not telling them will only regret it later - and V-Day offers just the right opportunity to do, so get out there and the risk of hearing a "no" - this is the worst that can happen.

Do Jehovah's Witnesses celebrate ANY holidays?

Even minor ones, like Valentine's Day, Halloween, or St. Patrick's? My boyfriend was raised as a Jehovah's Witness til he was 11 (over 15 years ago), and whenever I get excited about a holiday (the most recent being Christmas), he never gets the least bit excited. He also thinks it's silly to dress up on Halloween and says Valentine's is too commercial. I used to wonder about all this but I remembered his Jehovah upbringing (he is not one anymore, hasn't been since he was a kid - he appalls the religion) and wondered if his upbringing has something to do with him being so against Valentine's and Halloween. He seemed okay spending Xmas with me, just wasn't giddy like me, which is understandable. What do Jehovah's Witnesses believe about holidays, even minor ones?

*** sj pp. 17-21 Holidays and Celebrations ***

Holidays and Celebrations
So if a holiday or a celebration is in some way linked to other gods or goddesses, or if observing it is contrary to our understanding of Biblical principles, we do not take part.

Birthdays: Enjoying a feast or a party and generous giving to loved ones are certainly not wrong. (Luke 15:22-25; Acts 20:35) Jehovah’s Witnesses enjoy giving gifts and having good times together throughout the year. However, the only two birthday celebrations mentioned in the Bible involved people who were not true believers. They were a Pharaoh of Egypt and the Roman ruler Herod Antipas, each of whose birthday celebrations had deadly results. (Genesis 40:18-22; Mark 6:21-28) So it is not surprising to see these historical references to the attitude of early Christians toward birthday celebrations:
“The notion of a birthday festival was far from the ideas of the Christians of this period in general.”—The History of the Christian Religion and Church, During the Three First Centuries (New York, 1848), by Augustus Neander (translated by Henry John Rose), page 190.
Of all the holy people in the Scriptures, no one is recorded to have kept a feast or held a great banquet on his birthday. It is only sinners (like Pharaoh and Herod) who make great rejoicings over the day on which they were born into this world below.”—The Catholic Encyclopedia (New York, 1911), Volume X, page 709 (quoting Origen Adamantius of the third century).
Additionally, birthday celebrations tend to give excessive importance to an individual, no doubt one reason why early Christians shunned them. (Ecclesiastes 7:1) So you will find that Jehovah’s Witnesses do not share in birthday festivities (the parties, singing, gift giving, and so forth).

Christmas: As you are probably aware, December 25 was not the birthday of Jesus Christ. You may feel that this does not matter—that the event is the important thing. But the way the Christmas holiday developed shows that there is more to it than that. The following encyclopedias explain:
“The observance of Christmas is not of divine appointment, nor is it of N[ew] T[estament] origin. The day of Christ’s birth cannot be ascertained from the N[ew] T[estament], or, indeed, from any other source. The fathers of the first three centuries do not speak of any special observance of the nativity.”—Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature (Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1981 reprint), by John McClintock and James Strong, Volume II, page 276.
“Most of the Christmas customs now prevailing in Europe, or recorded from former times, are not genuine Christian customs, but heathen customs which have been absorbed or tolerated by the Church. . . . The Saturnalia in Rome provided the model for most of the merry customs of the Christmas time.”—Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics (Edinburgh, 1911), edited by James Hastings, Volume III, pages 608, 609.
It is commonly known that Christmas was not originally a celebration of Christ’s birth. U.S. Catholic of December 1981, page 32, notes: “It is impossible to separate Christmas from its pagan origins.” The magazine explains:
“The Romans’ favorite festival was Saturnalia, which began on December 17 and ended with the ‘birthday of the unconquered sun’ (Natalis solis invicti) on December 25. Somewhere in the second quarter of the fourth century, savvy officials of the church of Rome decided December 25 would make a dandy day to celebrate the birthday of the ‘sun of righteousness.’ Christmas was born.”
When learning these facts about Christmas, how have some been affected? The World Book Encyclopedia (1982) observes under “Christmas”: “During the 1600’s . . . Christmas was outlawed in England and in parts of the English colonies in America.” Since people in the past refused to celebrate Christmas because of its pagan origins, it should be understandable why Jehovah’s Witnesses do not celebrate it today. We take no part in Christmas parties, plays, singing, exchanging of gifts, or in any other such activity that is associated with Christmas.

Jehovah’s Witnesses take the same position of total nonparticipation in other religious or semireligious holidays that occur during the school year. The reason is that these holidays, too, are connected with non-Christian worship; in fact, certain features of such worship often dominate the celebrations. Consider the following examples:

Easter: Although this holiday is supposed to commemorate Christ’s resurrection, note what secular authorities say regarding it:
“Easter. Originally the spring festival in honor of the Teutonic goddess of light and spring known in Anglo-Saxon as Eastre. As early as the 8th century the name was transferred by the Anglo-Saxons to the Christian festival designed to celebrate the resurrection of Christ.”—The Westminster Dictionary of the Bible (Philadelphia, 1944), by John D. Davis, page 145.
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