OK are there ANY single CHRISTIAN women left?!

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I think alot of those people who insist the church is failing them aren’t really acknowliging that God can put two people together anytime, anywhere. And that sometimes the person is right below your nose.
 
@ all those who say that prayers help…

Guess what! I sent a prayer to the Lord and asked him to bring a man into my life. A couple of days later…
It was on Christmas day out of all days that a very Catholic man sent me his e-mail address and we’ve been writing each other ever since. It almost seemed like a Christmas present I received from our Lord 😃 and I did fall in love with this man.

Turned out though that he has a girlfriend. So…I’m still single BUT this man brought me back to church as we talked about religion also, and I found my way back to the Lord through this man.

Everything happens for a reason 🙂

Thank you Lord for that man as he prompted me to find my way back to church.
Now, next time you send me one please Lord send me one I can marry 😃
 
SeaShoreGirl said:
I think alot of those people who insist the church is failing them aren’t really acknowliging that God can put two people together anytime, anywhere. And that sometimes the person is right below your nose.
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The Church isn’t failing. Parishes are failing me, and their respective dioceses who decided decided single adults aren’t worthy of the VIP treatment kids get with their LifeTeen masses. Big difference.

There’s a disproportionate amount of time and energy afforded to kids, who are already organizing their own groups via Facebook, Twitter, etc., thereby negating the need for LifeTeen.

It’s kinda sad I won’t go to church some Sundays because I leave mass feeling lonely, isolated, alienated and depressed at everyone staring the weird old guy. You shouldn’t ever leave mass feeling lonely, isolated, alienated, and depressed, yet that’s exactly what keeps the “good Catholic men” away. Jesus welcomes me there and is glad I’m spending an hour with Him. The pastor and congregants, OTOH, treat me like a second-class citizen - which is ironic considering that second-class citizens are the ones to whom Jesus ministered. At least I know who’s got my back.
 
havana1 said:
The Church isn’t failing. Parishes are failing me, and their respective dioceses who decided decided single adults aren’t worthy of the VIP treatment kids get with their LifeTeen masses. Big difference.

There’s a disproportionate amount of time and energy afforded to kids, who are already organizing their own groups via Facebook, Twitter, etc., thereby negating the need for LifeTeen.

It’s kinda sad I won’t go to church some Sundays because I leave mass feeling lonely, isolated, alienated and depressed at everyone staring the weird old guy. You shouldn’t ever leave mass feeling lonely, isolated, alienated, and depressed, yet that’s exactly what keeps the “good Catholic men” away. Jesus welcomes me there and is glad I’m spending an hour with Him. The pastor and congregants, OTOH, treat me like a second-class citizen - which is ironic considering that second-class citizens are the ones to whom Jesus ministered. At least I know who’s got my back.
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I think maybe you need to take a look at why you feel like you deserve some kind of “VIP treatment” for being single. If your parish isn’t as welcoming as you’d like, you could try going to a new one. No offense, but I highly doubt people are always staring at you because you are alone. Plenty of people go to Mass alone.

If you’re going to Mass and treating it as a social hour, and leaving depressed because you’re lonely and no one is paying enough attention to you, then you’re going for the wrong reasons. How exactly are you being treated as a “second-class citizen”?

I don’t really mean to be so harsh, but it really seems like you’re focusing an awful lot on yourself and seem surprised that your parish isn’t hand-picking a wife for you. It doesn’t work like that. 🤷
 
I lift a glass to all single, Christian women who have to put up with reading long threads like this written by men who can’t find them.

Cheers!
 
SeaShoreGirl;
Jesus is the word made Flesh. We weren’t given the Bible so we can read and feel what we want, we were given the Bible so we can draw into a more intimate knowlege of who God is.

Indeed. No disagreement there.

Personal interpertation is devoid of the knowlege of “why”…accepting a scripture passage can be detrimental to faith without understanding the threads that hold the Bible together. It is such an amazing book, written with so many different kinds of writing, some VERY theological and some so fantiful and parable. God didn’t give us the writings of theology to ignore.

Personal interpretation happens all the time. You are, as a Catholic, called to read and pray over the Bible many days a week if not every day. You are to do this alone in your room, and with your family, the house-church, if you are married.
I too will continue to read it on my own, and with friends, and let God speak to me directly through His word. Unless you have a Greek version you should be able to understand very much of what is going on in the Word.
By the way, before I became a personal believer in Jesus I was bored with the Bible and unable to understand it. Since I became a believer the Bible is always on my table, and I know its God’s personal letter for me. Its no longer like a strange language but a book that can daily edify me.

I’m not sure I’ve ever read that quote…I’m sure it’s taken out of context (which is my point) and last I heard, it’s not the end times.

Of course its the end times… Its has been the end times since the resurrection in some sense.
Anyway: the quote 1 John 2:27:
" As for you, the anointing you received from him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about all things and as that anointing is real, not counterfeit—just as it has taught you, remain in him."
Thereby not said we don’t need the Church. But we shouldn’t neglect our own Bible studies because we think that we don’t have the Spirit in us. We do, and we are a people of priests and prophets.

God DID write the bible for the common man, but today the common man dosn’t have a clue of all the things that makes the Bible come together…such as the knowlege of the old Testiment.

And you say, that instead of reading it and getting on with understanding it the common man shall first find a priest or theologian to read with…
Nah, sorry, that’s not smart.
 
havana1 said:
The Church isn’t failing. Parishes are failing me, and their respective dioceses who decided decided single adults aren’t worthy of the VIP treatment kids get with their LifeTeen masses. Big difference.

There’s a disproportionate amount of time and energy afforded to kids, who are already organizing their own groups via Facebook, Twitter, etc., thereby negating the need for LifeTeen.

It’s kinda sad I won’t go to church some Sundays because I leave mass feeling lonely, isolated, alienated and depressed at everyone staring the weird old guy. You shouldn’t ever leave mass feeling lonely, isolated, alienated, and depressed, yet that’s exactly what keeps the “good Catholic men” away. Jesus welcomes me there and is glad I’m spending an hour with Him. The pastor and congregants, OTOH, treat me like a second-class citizen - which is ironic considering that second-class citizens are the ones to whom Jesus ministered. At least I know who’s got my back.
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Oh for heaven’s sake… You are a man now, unlike the kids in Lifeteen. It’s time to stop worrying about who’s doing what for you.
 
Havard said:
Oh for heaven’s sake… You are a man now, unlike the kids in Lifeteen. It’s time to stop worrying about who’s doing what for you.
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I think this is the best comeback on CAF I’ve ever read. Grow up, act like a man. Awesome my friend.
 
Rascalking said:
I think this is the best comeback on CAF I’ve ever read. Grow up, act like a man. Awesome my friend.
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Best thing you’ve ever heard? c’mon man. I think we’ve all told Havanna to grow up atleast once.

But it was a great post.
 
SeaShoreGirl said:
Best thing you’ve ever heard? c’mon man. I think we’ve all told Havanna to grow up atleast once.

But it was a great post.
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No way. In the immortal words of Comic book guy, (and, lets face it, he is probably who I’ll be in twenty years!) Best. Post. Ever.
 
Rascalking said:
No way. In the immortal words of Comic book guy, (and, lets face it, he is probably who I’ll be in twenty years!) Best. Post. Ever.
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Ahh so one of those.

And hey…even comic book guy gets his 15 minutes of fame…though he never got a name.
 
First off, I want to make it clear that my intent towards havana1 is not to be uncharitable.

But second, this plays into the theme of that other thread about “where have all the good men gone”. As adults, we need to assume that if there is no one at the helm, it’s us who are going to have to step in.
 
Nec5 said:
You haven’t been forgotten, traitor. Never forget. Boo you.🙂

On a more serious note, good luck and I wish you a happy marriage.
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Thank you. 😃

I like to think I’m a ray of hope. If a fat, unattractive woman who likes older Simpson episodes a little too much can find someone, there is hope for everyone.
 
CountrySinger said:
Thank you. 😃

I like to think I’m a ray of hope. If a fat, unattractive woman who likes older Simpson episodes a little too much can find someone, there is hope for everyone.
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Fat? Unattractive? Your opinion of yourself is way too high.
 
Havard said:
Oh please. :rolleyes: Your fiance is a very lucky man.
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I think that any men who are moaning about finding a woman are either:
  • very clever and they are hoping to advertise that they are single, CONGRATS!
  • or need to man up! You need to fear God so you can be a great man if you are in this category! I am working really hard from my fear of God and I have no problem with Catholic women. Become a great man and you shall have a great woman - period… You don’t get a woman by moaning…
 
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