Catholic dating a non Christian girl

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I recently entered a relationship with a girl but she is not religious.
Can anyone help me on what to do? I’m debating on weather I should first invite her to Mass or Adoration. but I also am not sure exactly how to invite her or how to explain to her what goes on, as to not scare her away from Catholicism.
 
What is your motivation? You will indeed scare her off if she is not interested and if you just recently started dating, it’s too soon.
 
Does she know you are a practicing Catholic? Does she know you attend Mass regularly and that you take your religion seriously? As long as you’re not hiding anything from her, you’re okay. If she accepts you as you are, and agrees to carry on with the relationship, that’s enough to be going on with for the time being. Don’t do anything that she would see as you putting pressure on her to do something she doesn’t want to do.
 
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She doesn’t know I am and that I regularly attend mass. She even asked me how it went and is happy I go
 
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I recently entered a relationship with a girl but she is not religious.
Can anyone help me on what to do? I’m debating on weather I should first invite her to Mass or Adoration. but I also am not sure exactly how to invite her or how to explain to her what goes on, as to not scare her away from Catholicism.
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What is her disposition on this whole subject?
 
Never start dating a person with hope they will change. “Missionary dating”, dating hoping they will convert, ends in heartbreak.

Advice is different if you are 17 opposed to 37
 
Whoa, whoa, whoa…you just started dating. Chill out for a while.
 
It’s easier, and more honest to seek people to date who are fundamentally compatible with your faith than to find people and then hope to win them over. True, it’s happened for some and it’s even possible that the HS is leading you in that direction, but odds are that isn’t the case.

By all means share your faith with the people in your life, but to do so with an ulterior motive usually doesn’t pan out well. Worse yet, it can backfire and do damage not only to the relationship, but to the person’s feelings toward your faith and other Catholics in the future.
 
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