From here:

An Anglican parish in Squamish is arranging a special Leonard Cohen concert night in honour of Valentine’s Day.

A group of singers will perform a variety of Cohen’s love songs, along with offerings of wine and roses, on Saturday, Feb. 12, two day’s before Valentine’s Day.

Regular readers will understand my enthusiasm for such an event, given this review of Cohen’s recent concert in Vancouver, plus my advance article, headlined: “Leonard Cohen: The Theology of Love.”

David Dranchuk, the Anglican who is organizing the event at St. John’s Anglican Church puts his passion this way:

“Valentine’s just makes sense because Leonard Cohen was just so preoccupied with love… What a wonderful opportunity to give him some recognition for exploring the many facets of love.”

Although Cohen’s music is full of Biblical references from both the Old and New Testament, Dranchuk told the local newspaper the Canadian bard’s music is as much spiritual as it is religious, including as it explores the theme of erotic love.

No nonsense about how Saint Valentinus aided Christians persecuted by the Roman emperor Claudius and how he was killed for trying to convert Claudius: too religious. What the modern Anglican needs is not religion but spirituality with a spot of Eros on the side.

I’m sure they’ll perform “Hallelujah”. I could be wrong, but I don’t think the last three lines below are a reference to the immaculate conception; but they are very Anglican Church of Canada.

There was a time you let me know
What’s really going on below
But now you never show it to me, do you?
And remember when I moved in you
The holy dove was moving too
And every breath we drew was Hallelujah