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Jan 14, 2022
Faith· Resources

Catholic Gifts Inspired by Saint Valentine

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I remember being around the age of 9 and my parents surprised us with little Valentine gifts one year. I received a pack of stickers and I was absolutely delighted! It was not often our parents gave us gifts – those were strictly for Christmas and birthdays, so this small gift was an incredible surprise, and my heart still warms today thinking of how happy and grateful I was for that simple present.

Catholic Gifts Inspired by Saint Valentine

Saint Valentine Play dough kit by Easy Doughs It

This sensory Saint Valentine themed play dough kit encourages independent play for kids and allows for endless creativity and fun. Watch and see their imaginations run wild with this kit!

The kit comes with a wonderful story coloring book along with sensory pieces that correlate to the story of Saint Valentine. Children will learn interesting historical facts from the story like why we send valentine cards, and why Saint Valentine is associated with love and marriage, all while reading about Saint Valentine’s heroic life.

Love these playdoh sensory kits – they are loved by all my children!!!

Saint Valentine Socks!

These Saint Valentine Socks were just released by Sock Religious!!!

In the midst of being arrested . . . . Saint Valentine befriended his jailor and the jailor’s daughter, Julia. Also known for his healing abilities and knowledge of natural medicine, the jailor implored Valentine to heal Julia’s blindness. Through written correspondence and educational lessons, the relationship between these three grew in friendship and in prayer. Jailed again, Valentine had no hope to avoid execution.

Love Hearts from Sock Religious are also awesome!

In a final act of love and friendship, Valentine wrote Julia a letter, signing it, “Your valentine.” When she opened the letter, out fell a crocus flower, and from this flower divine colors filled Julia’s eyes and she realized her sight had been fully restored. In Medieval times, a common belief was that birds began to pair on February 14th (the day of Valentine’s death). Because of this, February 14th was a day dedicated to lovers and it was encouraged to send letters, gifts, and other signs of affection much like we do to this day.

Valentine’s Day Playdoh Kit by Easy Doughs It

Saint Valentine Patron Saint Block

ONE St Valentine Patron Saint Block // artwork on the front and description on the back. These little handmade blocks are just the right size for small hands. They can be used for imaginative play, building, stacking or collecting. Easy to care for, hard to break, educational, inspirational and versatile (for tots, little kids, or big kids)

Plush Saint Valentine Prayer Doll

St. Valentine is the patron saint of engaged couples, love, happy marriages, beekeepers, plague, epilepsy, and against fainting.

Our plush prayer dolls feature St. Valentine on the front, with a prayer for his aid on the back. Our clients love to give these dolls as Baptismal or sacramental gifts, for Christmas, baby showers, and more!

Choose from soft satin or cotton to create your 9″ tall x 3″ wide doll – each crafted while praying for the recipient.

Saint Valentine Prayer Card

Saint Valentine Shining Light Doll

Teach your children about what real love means!

  Introduce the story of St. Valentine using the educational insert in the box.  Encourage children to consider what it means to love someone. This is a great opportunity for teaching God’s definition of love- willing the good for another.

 True love is not just a feeling! This is a critical life lesson, an invaluable tool for emotional development.  

Great for opening discussions about love, God’s love for us, loving your enemies, the different kinds of love there are (friendship, married love, God’s love for us, etc.) as well as keeping your faith even when its not popular. 

These Catholic Gifts are great for Valentine’s Day!

Although not directly a Saint Valentine product, these Catholic gifts speak of the beauty of love that would have resonated with Saint Valentine himself.

Song of Songs Candle

Song of Songs Candle by CORDA

Also know as the Canticle of Canticles and the Song of Solomon, this love poem in the heart of the Bible shows us the heart of God, who pursues us as a lover and Bridegroom. And the Catechism of the Catholic Church tells us that “Tradition has always seen in the Song of Solomon a unique expression of human love, a pure reflection of God’s love–a love ‘strong as death’ that ‘many waters cannot quench'” (1609).

Cedar is present throughout the Song, with both the bride and groomed perfumed with it. Pomegranate references the bride, with apple connected to the bridegroom. And the scents remind us of the holy temple and God’s espousal of his people Israel.

Vintage Cherub Necklace and Earrings made by Della Madonna Rosaries.

The Cupid’s Love Letter Bronze Vintage Necklace & Earrings is a lovely way to express how you feel this Valentine’s Day.

The replica heirloom quality bronze medal shows Cupid reading a love letter brought by a dove. The earrings are also made with 6mm amethyst and cute heart shaped cupid bronze charms.

Catholic Stickers Inspired by Love

Spread Love sticker by Rakstar Designs (Inspired by Saint Teresa of Calcutta)

Do all you do in Love sticker by Just Love Prints. Also check out the Jesus Hug sticker and the heart shaped Whatever God wants sticker from this shop too!

Let us Love Sticker by Clare and Francis. This shop is so cute!

Be Yourself: A Journal for Catholic Girls

Young girls dream of love. This book teaches them what real love is, where it comes from and how she is called to love others in her life.

Be Yourself: A Journal for Catholic Boys is a great gift to give paired with a basketball.

This journal invites boys to “wreck pages” with dirt and a scavenger hunt that encourages finding random items mentioned in the Bible like mustard seeds, nails and more. Boys are encouraged to pray while shooting hoops, interview adults about hope and really look at what their interests are and how those hobbies can glorify the Lord.

Plan a Catholic Galentine’s Day

Plan your own Catholic Valentine Celebration with your girlfriends that you have not seen enough – especially in the last 2 years!

A get together with wine, chocolates and the Rosary is so much fun!

You can plan a small get together or a bigger one that could be a one day retreat or day of reflection!

You can do this now with the new How to Plan a Prayer Wine Chocolate Retreat Guide!

The first two “retreats” can take place in your home!

Yes, I want to plan my own Prayer Wine Chocolate Get Together!

WANT MORE VALENTINE’S DAY GIFT IDEAS? CHECK OUT: Catholic Valentine Gift Ideas for 2022

Do like Saint inspired gift guides?

Check out my gift guides inspired by

Saint Gianna ,

Saint Patrick,

and Saint Therese’!

WANT MORE VALENTINE’S DAY GIFT IDEAS? CHECK OUT: Catholic Valentine Gift Ideas for 2022

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  1. Alicia says

    January 15, 2022 at 8:16 am

    Great suggestions, thank you! The first one makes me wish I was a kid again just to play.

    • Amy says

      January 20, 2022 at 3:22 pm

      Me too Alicia – me too! I love your comments so much – I always look forward to reading them!

  2. Ani says

    January 17, 2022 at 5:30 pm

    Amy, thank you for all of your Catholic gift ideas! I love the play dough bins!!!

    • Amy says

      January 20, 2022 at 3:23 pm

      I do too!!! Glad you like these type of posts – they are fun to research and write!

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Friendship can be confusing to tween and teens. th Friendship can be confusing to tween and teens. they hear “love one another” but are not taught that there are different kinds of love and that friendship is meant to be selective. Saint John Bosco left similar advice. He said:
“Fly from bad companions as from the bite of a poisonous snake. If you keep good companions, I can assure you that you will one day rejoice with the blessed in Heaven; whereas if you keep with those who are bad, you will become bad yourself, and you will be in danger of losing your soul.”
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Catholic gifts for women often seem plentiful… but when it comes to men, well … shopping for them can be more of a challenge.

I love how the men over at Voyage Comics create extremely incredible content and works of art that entertain without compromising virtue.
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I will say this… 

never hesitate to invite someone to pray the Rosary with you!

Katie embraced the Rosary as a Christian 
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How can we love our identity and still be humble? How can we love our identity and still be humble?

Does that sound like a good title for a talk?

I’m working on a “Talk” on Identity (or a blog post if I chicken out 🐓)… and I’m really liking the topic of humility… along with modesty.
My plan was to post this morning and ask for your prayers… but along the way I saw that today is Saint Philip Neri’s feast day.
So, naturally, I googled “Saint Philip Neri humility”.
To my delight, I found this quote:

“Humility is the safeguard of chastity. In the matter of purity, there is no greater danger than not fearing the danger. 

For my part, when I find a man secure of himself and without fear, I give him up for lost. I am less alarmed for one who is tempted and who resists by avoiding the occasions, than for one who is not tempted and is not careful to avoid occasions. When a person puts himself in an occasion, saying, I shall not fall, it is an almost infallible sign that he will fall, and with great injury to his soul.”

I feel like some great message is coming together here, but, I need your prayers.

I mean, I don’t even know if posting about humility on Instagram is like, a total oxymoron?

I’m so thankful to have Scripture and the writing of Saints to help me. I’m also extremely grateful for your prayers.

May we both live as it is written in 1 Peter 5:5 ~
“And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility in your dealings with one another, for:
“God opposes the proud
but bestows favor on the humble.”
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Do our sons understand what it means to be a “sp Do our sons understand what it means to be a “spiritual warrior “? Do we?

I learned and relearned a ton of things writing Be Yourself: a Journal for Catholic Boys.

Here’s what we all need to know about being a “Spiritual Warrior “:

1. Yes, there is a battle between good and evil and we are all in the midst of it. Years ago, in cartoons, it was common to see a devil on one shoulder and an Angel on another. It was CLEAR which voice was good and which was evil. The animation gave us a visual of what we were very familiar with.  Today, we must work a little harder so that all of us are detecting what is good and what is evil.

2. You don’t walk out onto a battlefield unprepared.
You put on your suit of armor and you bring your weapon. You do this FIRST! Faith is our shield, prayer is our greatest weapon. In other words, God has to be number one if we want to truly protect our soul. Knowing God has to be not only a priority, but our first priority.

3. We are not alone, but not everyone is going to grow in virtue. The virtues are our “armor of light” that protect us from the enemy. We would be wise to follow the advice of St. Francis de Sales in this, “Love everyone with a strenuous love based on charity, but form friendships only with those who can share virtuous things with you.”
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Prayer of St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus O Jesu Prayer of St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus

O Jesus, I pray for your faithful and fervent priests;
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for your priests laboring at home or abroad in distant mission fields;
for your tempted priests;
for your lonely and desolate priests;
for your young priests;
for your dying priests;
for the souls of your priests in purgatory.

But above all, I recommend to you the priests dearest to me:
the priest who baptized me;
the priests who absolved me from my sins;
the priests at whose Masses I assisted and who gave me your Body and Blood in Holy Communion;
the priests who taught and instructed me;
all the priests to whom I am indebted in any other way (especially …).

O Jesus, keep them all close to your heart,
and bless them abundantly in time and in eternity.
Amen.
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I have a super sweet story to share with you! Las I have a super sweet story to share with you!

Last evening my husband and I decided that we were long overdue for praying a Rosary with the family.

We have friends searching for jobs that have asked us to pray and many others intentions.

Our kids were outside playing with a little girl who lives up the road.

I walked outside with a bunch of tangled up Rosaries (see reel I made yesterday) and told my 3 children they had to come in to pray the Rosary.

My daughter, who made this Rosary for me, asked if their friend could pray with us.

I said she was, of course, welcome to pray with us!

All 4 kids came inside and my son volunteered to lead the first decade. Our 9 year old guest led a decade too!

She stumbled a little with the words to the Hail Mary but by the end of her decade, I was so impressed.

Once we were done praying my husband complimented our young guest on how well she did.
It was such a beautiful, unexpected event.
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“I don’t even remember that”~ my Mom. When I “I don’t even remember that”~ my Mom.
When I told my mom how she inspired the title of the Be Yourself Journal, that was her response 😂.
As a tired Mama, I so appreciate this now.
It’s amazing what God’s grace and a mother’s love can do!
My mom felt bad that I felt left out. But, she was also tired and was probably in survival mode with 3 or 4 children at that point.
I get that now.
But God took what my mom didn’t say and placed in my heart the contents of the book I get to the author of!
I am finding so much relief in this realization today.
I often see my shortcomings as a Mother.
I’m tired.
I’m still disorganized like I was before motherhood.
But I do have faith in God and love for my children.
I believe that God knew exactly what He was doing when He chose me to be the mother of my children.
He knows my strengths and weaknesses.
His grace is sufficient… for all mothers.
Praise the Lord!
Happy Mother’s Day!

Share this post and remind others that it’s totally okay to not be perfect.
Keep loving!
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Did you know Our Lady of Fatima taught the three y Did you know Our Lady of Fatima taught the three young children a couple of prayers?

The Blessed Mother taught the children to offer all their personal sacrifices to God by praying:
O My Jesus, I offer this for love of Thee, for the conversion of sinners, and in reparation for the sins committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

Another prayer Our Lady taught the children was:

O My Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of Hell, lead all souls to Heaven, especially those in most need of Thy mercy.

I love how Our Blessed Mother encourages to us to start a prayer by addressing the Lord with these words:
“O my Jesus…”
One of my favorite prayers was taught to the Fatima children by an angel.
This is that prayer:

My God, I believe, I adore, I hope and I love Thee! I ask pardon for those who do not believe, do not adore, do not hope and do not love Thee.

Today, May 13th, is the feast of Our Lady of Fatima.
Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us!

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Sometimes, when I go to Mass, the homily isn’t e Sometimes, when I go to Mass, the homily isn’t exactly stellar…

But bread and wine become the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ through the power of the Holy Spirit.

Sometimes, when I attend Mass, the other people in the pews don’t participate in the prayers or sing the hymns…

But bread and wine become the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ through the power of the Holy Spirit and the instrumentality of the priest. The whole Christ is truly present.

Sometimes, when I’m at Mass my own mind wanders and I’m distracted by children who can’t sit still…

But bread and wine become the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ through the power of the Holy Spirit.

An incredible miracle happens at every Catholic Mass… 

The whole Christ is truly present -- body, blood, soul, and divinity -- under the appearances of bread and wine, the glorified Christ who rose from the dead. This is what the Church means when she speaks of the "Real Presence" of Christ in the Eucharist.

The Eucharist is the body of Jesus Christ, which was given up for me and you.

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