Starflower
Praying for the perfect match
Matchmaking 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!
We do wonder if praying for a relationship alone is any use. A pilgrimage to Saint Anthony seems to be more of a chance to meet other singles – in the knowledge that they share the same faith. But faith or no faith – no single seriously looking for a relationship can rely entirely on a deity taking care of things, right?
