Praying for the perfect match
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008Matchmaking has a lot to do with faith and trust. First of all, you need faith in yourself, you need to feel desirable as a single and you need to believe in happy relationships. There was a time when singles trusted their parents or professional matchmakers to arrange a marriage. Today, singles often trust friends to set them up or search for a relationship through online matchmaking.
But obviously some singles trust no one more than… God. Well, you could say God was the first matchmaker in history, because that relationship between Adam und Eve surely wouldn’t have been possible without his help. The logical next step for faithful catholic singles is obviously to pray for a relationship.
Seeing how God probably has lots of other requests to deal with, they direct their prayers to Saint Anthony, the patron saint of singles. This article was interesting for that snippet of information alone – we never knew singles had their own saint! (more…)
