Updated on February 12, 2016 at 9:59 AM Posted on February 11, 2016 at 11:44 AM. Valentine's Day 2016 by the numbers Americans spent more money on Valentine's Day related goods and services last year than the GDP of more than 80 countries, roughly $19 billion. Americans ate 58 million pounds of chocolate and red roses were actually the second most popular flower shop purchase.
Due to a terrible blizzard in February 2015, our event at a parish in Worcester, Massachusetts was rescheduled for the lovely month of May. The month of Mary our Mother. Looking back, I truly see our Ladyâs hand involved and having much to due with the unforgettable meeting we had with an unforgettable priest, Fr. Dermot Roache, SMA.
The story begins in a fictional monastery somewhere in northern Germany, of the Cantorianer order. We gather that this order claims to encounter God primarily in music, and that it was excommunicated from the Catholic Church many years ago.