In College and kinda lonely (single life)

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After 20 years, I can say the lord has done a bunch to me spiritually and be a guide to love his church despite whatever gets in the way.

Recently, college has been a time of studying, having a passionate to understand networks/coding, but to be that one catholic that’s on a lonely journey with christ in a small town with no one to really talk to. If I did talk to somebody, it would almost always be that person that is unaffiliated.

While it’s not my top concern, I do worry that being a lonely man on this journey has set me back from finding a woman(partner) that is passionate about our holy church and even grow in spirit. I attend youth, but to someone feel left out. I can imagine myself marrying someone by recieving the sacrament, but don’t see myself kissing the bride given that nobody but the lord appreciates me and most could care less. Sure, some people have appreciated me, and I’m grateful for that. I’ve prayed many times and turned to our holy mother and I know there is an answer. I just don’t like being on this journey isolated from a community that I truly need to be the saint the lord calls me to be. Yes, there are times it should be us an Jesus, but there’s also the need for people to talk that has a catholic faith.
 
Do you live on campus, or at home with parents?
Reason I ask, is depression has a funny way of rubbing off onto others.
 
I currently live at home. It is most likely my last year given that I’ll be finishing up next May.
 
God created us to live in community, to have friends and family. Are you part of your parish community? Have you joined the Knights of Columbus?

Do not let the idea that “everyone there is older than me, everyone there is married, everyone there is rich, everyone there is poor, everyone there is insert demographic difference”. Community is broad, encompassing everyone at every stage and state of life. The camaraderie and fellowship that can be gained when one opens themselves out of the neat little box is truly of God.

Our parish has monthly board game evenings, trivia nights, and is starting an RPG group. If someone simply walked into Mass tomorrow morning, they would think that it is a parish of 70+ year old boring people. A parish is like an iceberg, what you see at the Mass you attend is not the entirety of the parish.

Being single, being alone, does not have to mean one is lonely.
 
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