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German Diocese Offers Same-Sex Blessings on St. Valentine’s Day
LifeSite News ^ | 2/16/23 | Michael Haynes

Posted on 02/21/2023 6:19:51 PM PST by marshmallow

‘Love is everything’ wrote the Diocese of Aachen in a social media post promoting same-sex blessings in the diocese.

AACHEN, Germany (LifeSiteNews) –– The Catholic Diocese of Aachen has declared itself in favor of same-sex relationships and blessings, offering blessings to “all couples and newly in love” for the recent St. Valentine’s Day.

In a February 14 Facebook post, the traditional feast of St. Valentine, the Diocese of Aachen issued a welcome to “all couples and newly in love.”

The post read:

This goes out to all couples and newly in love:

We wish you a wonderful Valentine’s Day!

If you would like to have your love blessed: In the diocese of Aachen there are blessing celebrations or services in all regions. (Dates and locations in the story).

How do you celebrate Valentine’s Day? Just let us know in the comments

Accompanying the text was an image of two men caught in the act of kissing with the caption “Love is everything.”

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1 posted on 02/21/2023 6:19:51 PM PST by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

Oh my Aachen Bach.

Remind me why followers of Christ should associate themselves with the purveyors of Satan’s heresy. Catholics today who want to follow Christ have to do it in spite of their church, not with it.


2 posted on 02/21/2023 6:23:53 PM PST by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: marshmallow

Besides being an atrocity and an insult to God, this is an in-your-face insult to St. Valentine, who was martyred for his secretly blessing real marriages.


3 posted on 02/21/2023 6:26:52 PM PST by Deo volente ("When we see the image of a baby in the womb, we glimpse the majesty of God's creation." Pres. Trump)
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To: marshmallow

How can that be? Such a thing goes against Christ’s teaching.


4 posted on 02/21/2023 6:33:29 PM PST by chopperk ( )
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To: marshmallow; Al Hitan; Fedora; irishjuggler; Jaded; kalee; markomalley; miele man; Mrs. Don-o; ...

Frankenchurch Ping


5 posted on 02/21/2023 6:51:39 PM PST by ebb tide
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To: marshmallow

How long before women will be commonly accepted as “priests”?

Because “What’s a ‘woman’?”

Have some already snuck in?


6 posted on 02/21/2023 7:30:20 PM PST by Ken Regis (I concur. )
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To: marshmallow
‘Love is everything’

Sure it is, I love sex, drugs, alcohol, porn, cookies, pies, salted pork, Captain Crunch, HoHos, Twinkies, Pop-Tarts, McDonalds, Taco Bell, Wendy's, Burger King and the rest.

I love them all which is why I try to avoid them. Well most of the time anyway.

7 posted on 02/21/2023 7:45:30 PM PST by usurper (AI was born with a birth defect.)
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To: marshmallow

Somehow, I have the feeling a lot of people are going to be shocked when they die and see Jesus, and find out He isn’t the soft-headed, senile, hairy, tooth-fairy they wanted Him to be.

Most progressive Catholics in my parish seem to think of God as some doddering, old duffer stumbling around on the clouds looking for the sandal for his left foot while a blue, cloth mask dangles uselessly from his right ear (think Biden in Birkenstocks). I try to be nice to them.

Jesus is kind, not nice. Kindest of all time. But definitely not ‘nice’ - at least in the modern sense of the term.


8 posted on 02/22/2023 1:26:11 PM PST by Montana_Sam (Truth lives.)
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