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Johanna & Sean
Married: December 2006
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Dear Catholic Singles,
My wife and I met through this site about four years ago. We got married on December 30, 2006. We are very happy together.
Our friendship turned into a relationship very quickly. We are attracted to each other on a deep spiritual level and we are best friends. It's not easy in today's world to find someone who has a strong faith and similar values. It just made sense to both of us to search for someone on this site.
We truly believe God has a say in our marriage and in how we met. So we wanted to thank you for everything you do. We are proof that God does work in all kinds of ways. We encourage single people to use this site and above all to have faith that God will take care of their needs. Thanks again, and God bless.
Sean and Johanna
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Dear CatholicSingles.com:
My wife Jo-Ann and I are certainly one of CatholicSingles.com's success stories. We met on June 30, 2003 after a short correspondence by computer. There was an immediate attraction, not only because of common interests and personal compatibility but also, and maybe primarily, because of the faith that we share. We had lived only a few miles apart in Queens, NY for years and both of us even knew a couple of the same people but we most likely never would have met without CatholicSingles.com. To make a long story short, we were married early in 2004 and ever since we have felt as though we have one of those marriages made in Heaven. So we are certainly indebted to CatholicSingles.com
Sincerely,
Michael and Jo-Ann Henry
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Kelly and Thom
Married: June 2005
"We both truly believe that God will use whatever means possible to bring two people together when they are both ready."
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Dear Catholic Singles,
We met on Catholic Singles in Spring of 2003 and married in June of 2005. We both thank God everyday for all the blessings that this Love has brought into our lives. Most of all, our beautiful daughter who is the light of our lives.
It is such a gift to find someone with similar values, beliefs and faith and we are grateful to CatholicSingles.com for providing another medium for God to bring people together. The great thing about meeting online was that we both knew we had a starting point of sharing our faith. It gave us a chance to get to know the basics about one another before we even met in person!
I had been on Catholic Singles for a while, but knew I did not want to move out of our rural state. It was difficult meeting anyone on the website in our area. I would check from time to time to see if there was anyone new in the area. One day there was a very interesting profile. I reactivated my account... the next day I had an email from Thom!
Thom's father had seen an article in Catholic Digest and suggested he try Catholic Singles out. It wasn't long after he was on the website that Kelly's profile popped up. We began emailing and found we lived about three hours apart. We had many common interests, views and knew common people.
After about a month of emails and phone calls, we decided to meet. It was such a comfortable first date-laughing, being outside, getting to know one another. We both knew something was "different" this time around. Our families and friends were a huge support for us. About six months into our relationship, we knew that it was worth the risk of making some life changes and we were able to move to the same town.
Well, needless to say, we were married in June, 2005. We now have a daughter who was born around Christmas 2006. We both truly believe that God will use whatever means possible to bring two people together when they are both ready.
Thanks again,
Thom and Kelly
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Clarissa Ann
"She is truly a child of CatholicSingles.com!"
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Dear CatholicSingles.com,
We were your Success Story in January 2008. We wanted to follow up with more wonderful news! We had our baby girl, Clarissa (after St Clare) Ann, on December 27, five days late. She was baptized on January 31, the Feast of St John Bosco. She is truly a child of CatholicSingles.com!
Vernon & Emilia
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Dear Catholic Singles,
Wow, what a difference a year makes! I joined your website because my dad thought I might meet someone special, someone different than my previous boyfriends. At the time, I was discouraged with the dating scene, and pretty much threw in my towel on the whole thing... but I decided to give it a try in September of 2005, and 2 weeks into it I got an email from Mike.
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From that moment, all we did was email each other and talk on the phone all night. We had so much in common, from our family backgrounds, to the things we like to do on our time off, but most importantly our values were identical. So after 2 months, we finally met for dinner - it was November 4. Next thing you know, he is at my family's house for Thanksgiving, then I am at his family's house for Christmas, then before I knew it he proposed a year later on New Years Eve! We got married in a Catholic Cathedral in August 2007. As I was walking down the aisle with my Dad, I tried to hold back the tears because I knew that I wouldn't be there if it hadn't been for him pushing me to get on your site. One of the best moments of my life was listening to my husband say his vows. It was so emotional for both of us.
I can't thank you enough for helping me find my life partner. We are so happy! It gives us such a good feeling to know that there will be many more success stories after ours. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts!
Mike and Tina
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Mike and Tina
Married: August 2007
"I can't thank you enough for helping me find my life partner. We are so happy!"
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Tori and Paul
Married: January 2000
"We are still very much in love and met on CatholicSingles.com."
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Dear CatholicSingles.com,
We are SUCCESS STORY Page 3 (7th story down the page).
We just celebrated our 8th Wedding Anniversary on January 21st, 2008. We are still very much in love and met on CatholicSingles.com. We have told our story so many times, often to people who doubt that internet dating can be any good. Well it can be very, very good. We are proof. We are active in our parish and find strength in our belief in God.
Thank you, CatholicSingles.com, for bringing us together.
Paul and Tori
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Dear Catholic Singles,
Emilia lived in San Diego, where she grew up. I however lived in Chicago, to which I had moved from England in 1995. She is the sixth child in her family and also the third of three triplets. We met through Catholic Singles because both of us were disenchanted with the secular websites but wanted to find someone special and preferably someone Catholic.
We "met" online on Catholic Singles on December 22 2001 and a few months later met in person when she flew to Chicago for my birthday. From then on, we saw each other maybe once a month, more often in San Diego than in Chicago, but she did get introduced to snow by me one Chicago winter.
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Emilia and Vernon
Married: August 2006
"This was a site that geared toward our faith and religion."
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In 2004 she moved to Chicago so we could get to know each other better and two years later, in August 2006, we were married at St Stanislaus Kostka Church in Chicago, with family flying in from Australia, England, Virginia and California. And this year we're expecting our first child, due quite fittingly on December 22, six years to the day we "met" online through Catholic Singles.
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Suzanne and Harland
Engaged: October 2007
"We so grateful to you for giving us the chance to find our soulmate"
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Dear CatholicSingles.com,
We started emailing each other in early Jan 2007 on your website. A couple of weeks later we spoke on the phone for the first time, and in Feb, the week of Valentines day, we had our first date. We have seen each other every weekend since then, and have emailed or spoken to each other every day since our first email.
On Oct 26, 2007 we became engaged and plan on getting married in July of 2008. We feel so blessed to have met each other. Neither of us has ever been married and had nearly given up on ever finding someone to share our lives with. Of course, we never would have met without your website, and we so grateful to you for giving us the chance to find our soulmate.
Thanks!
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Dear Catholic Singles,
After years of traveling down a long and winding broken road, God
intervened. We feel our faith and God is what brought us together.
However in literal terms, we met on that crazy internet.
One of them "dating" sites, however it was no ordinary dating site,
this one was special. This was a site that geared toward our faith
and religion. We met at CatholicSingles.com!
We started emailing each other the beginning of October of 2005. We
got engaged on September 29, 2006 and got married on August 18th,
2007 in Detroit, Michigan. It was a full Catholic Latin mass. You
heard that correctly, LATIN!
Our wedding showed the tremendous love we have for each other, our faith, and our family.
Jamie and Sonya
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Sonya and Jamie
Married: August 2007
"This was a site that geared toward our faith and religion."
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Lynn and John
Engaged: 2007
"We've got to tell you that you are losing two of your former members for the best possible reason: We are getting married! And yes we met on CatholicSingles.com."
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Our friends at CatholicSingles.com,
We've got to tell you that you are losing two of your former members for the best possible reason: We are getting married! And yes we met on CatholicSingles.com.
After three great years of dating and growing closer together in the Lord, I popped the question to Miss Lynn Margaret Catherine O'Neill aboard a ferry crossing the Shannon River near Ireland's West Coast and Lynn agreed to be my beautiful bride. We have penciled in the last Saturday in July, 2008 at St. Joseph's Chapel at Spring Hill College, the Jesuit College of the South.
While we are obviously now "spoken for" we remain your very loyal supporters and remain ready to help you in you ministry by way of references to our friends, family and clients as well as testimonials.
In short, we couldn't have done this without you so WE OWE YOU BIG TIME!
When we first started dating, our favorite prayer was "God is good all the time."
Now we pray "God is VERY good all the time."
May God continue to bless all our brothers and sisters at CatholicSingles.com.
John J. Robb
Mobile, Alabama
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Dear Catholic Singles,
We are one of your success stories and I am just writing to give you
an update. 2 weeks after we celebrated our 1st wedding anniversary
(we were married 5/21/05) we welcomed our son, Peter Joseph into our
family. He was born on 6/4/06 - and is the joy of our lives. We
were so fortunate to have found each other thanks to
CatholicSingles.com. But we're even more blessed to have a family.
Attached is a pix of Scott and I with Peter Joseph - "PJ".
Thank you for everything.
Karen, Scott and PJ Kane
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Karen and Scott
Married: May 2005
We were so fortunate to have found each other thanks to
CatholicSingles.com
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Married: May 2006
"I recognize that CatholicSingles exists because of God's own
work and divine mercy and those who started it just happened
to follow His calling."
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Dear Catholic Singles,
My husband and I met as a result of your website after he sent me a
greeting on January 1, 2005. What a way to start the year! I had
been praying for God to send me my soulmate as it finally hit me
one day that this was not something that I could find on my own.
Prior to starting a free trial on your website, I was looking for
some material for my religious education class on a Catholic
website and I just happened to see an ad for CatholicSingles. I was
humored by the fact that there was an internet dating service based
on my faith. Goes to show how wrong people are when they do not
think of our faith and Lord as modern!
We became engaged on March 18th of that same year and were married
on May 6, 2006. I recognize that CatholicSingles exists because of
God's own work and divine mercy and those who started it just
happened to follow His calling. But, I thank you for your ministry
and allowing it to happen.
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Would it not be the 'internet era', I do not know how my kind Lord
and beautiful Savior would have gotten Brian and I to meet since we
previously lived on opposite ends of our state. Thank you,
CatholicSingles. For those of you out there that are still
'looking', have faith in God's power and realize that if you lift
it all of to Him, it will never be 'easy', but it will always be
worth it when He sends you your spouse. God bless you all
always.
Please keep each other and this ministry in your prayers for the benefits of others in the days to come!
Sincerely,
Mrs. Wilkins
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Dear Catholic Singles,
Kate and I found each other on CatholicSingles.com on October 16,
2006 and we met for the first time in Boston on January 11, 2007.
Now, we are less than 75 days until we marry on Sept 1. Earlier this
month, we had a great time during the Catholic Engagement Encounter
course and we even wrote love letters to each other over that
weekend.
We would like to thank you all for your continuing support, love and prayers.
Dennis & Kate
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Kate and Dennis
Engaged: 2007
We are less than 75 days until we marry on Sept 1.
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Married: April 2006
"Without this website, we would have never met
each other."
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Dear Catholic Singles,
We met through your website in 2004 and were married in April 2006.
We are now expecting our first child this August!
Our Catholic faith is important to both of us and with it we have
built a wonderful and long-lasting partnership. Without this
website, we would have never met each other. Thank you for bringing
us together.
Sincerely,
Craig and Casey
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Dear Catholic Singles,
I just wanted to share a success story with you! Shawn Shannon and
I first met through your site in April 2005. We both agreed that
our first date was one of the most fun dates we'd ever been on, and
our relationship just kept getting better. On April 6, 2007, we
became engaged! We are hoping to get married in December 2007. We
didn't live very far away from each other, but we probably never
would've met if it weren't for your site.
Thanks!
Carrie Walters
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Engaged: April 2007
We are hoping to get married in December 2007.
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Married: October 7, 2006
"Being able to find a partner who has a strong foundation in the
Catholic faith is a foundation for a wonderful relationship and
family."
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Dear Catholic Singles,
Thank you for introducing me to my husband. We first met on your
website in July 2004 and just got married on October 7th, 2006. Him
being from Chicago and myself being from Winnipeg Manitoba, Canada, our
courtship was trying but completely worth it. We currently reside in
Chicago and are excited to begin our lives together. We will pray for
your ministry and hope you keep us in your prayers. Being able to find
a partner who has a strong foundation in the Catholic faith is a
foundation for a wonderful relationship and family. Your ministry truly
can help build strong Catholic families. God Bless you for that!
In Christ,
Danielle and Chris
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Dear Catholic Singles,
I wanted to write and thank you for the role that you played in bringing Chris and I together. We met through your website in July of 2005. I had not had much luck with the whole on-line dating thing and I was not expecting Chris to be any different. However I decided to give it one last chance. We met and on our first date when he said that he also loved Mister Rogers, I knew that he was different. We were engaged in May 2006 during a trip to Boston, and we were married on December 16, 2006. God has blessed us with each other and we are grateful for your website for allowing us to meet.
Laura
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Married: December 2006
I wanted to write and thank you for
the role that you played in bringing Chris and I together. We
met through your website in July of 2005.
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Married: June 24, 2004
"This is the first time in my life that God gave me the opportunity of enjoying so much love and happiness. We have two kids. As I tell everybody that I know, my family is my happiness and I owe this to your service."
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Dear CatholicSingles.com,
This is to thank you for your website. I didn't use to go to parties or to clubs at night to meet people. I was dedicated to my work, helping people. I was working as a Social Worker; but I wanted to meet someone special, with a very good heart. I checked other websites before trying yours, but in none of them I found the people that I found here. So, I decided to sign for this one and in less than three months, I got the opportunity of meeting a man with the most wonderful heart that I have ever met. This happened in March of 2003. After 9 months he proposed to me. Our engagement lasted 6 months and we got married in June 24, 2004.
We have been happily married since then. This is the first time in my life that God gave me the opportunity of enjoying so much love and happiness. We have two kids. As I tell everybody that I know, my family is my happiness and I owe this to your service.
Thank you so much,
Marie
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Jonathan and Megan began
e-mailing each other about a year ago after connecting on
CatholicSingles.com. E-mailing soon turned into conversations over
the phone, until they finally decided to meet.
They met Nov. 18 last year at the Spectrum Center's Barnes and Noble for their first date.
"We hit it off right away," said Jonathan.
By the third date, just 11 days later, their relationship status became official.
Jonathan had heard the old adage before. "Everyone always says you
know when you know," he said. But he never believed it until he met
Megan.
"I knew three or four months in, that this is the girl I would end up
marrying," Jonathan said.
They took to the ice Thursday night with the soundtrack of their
relationship, prepared by Jonathan, playing in the background. First
a Cold Play song – a reminder of the concert they went to in
February, then the theme song from the Shamu show at Sea World –
Jonathan had e-mailed Sea World months earlier to get the name of the
song.
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Megan & Jonathan
Engaged: December 2006
Jonathan had heard the old adage before. "Everyone always says you know when you know," he said. But he never believed it until he met Megan.
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Finally the song he planned to propose to, "You raise me up" by Il Divo, came on. As the song ended, he pulled her to the middle of the rink and dropped to one knee.
"Megan I love you with all of my heart, will you marry me?" he asked.
"Are you serious? Are you really serious?" Megan asked before answering "yes."
They stood in the middle of the rink, just one year after they had met there, kissing and holding each other as the last song on the play list came on – "All I want for Christmas is you."
Story written by Yolanda Sanchez of THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
and photograph taken by Miguel Vasconcellos
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Anne & Joe
Married: October 2005
"Joe and I both went on CatholicSingles.com to meet someone with a similar faith background. Since our religion is such a strong part of our moral and ethical upbringing, we knew we wanted to be with someone who had those same values and wanted them for their future children."
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Dear CatholicSingles.com,
Joe and I wanted to thank you for the instrumental part you played in bringing us together. I went on your site after finding out through passing conversation with my roommate that both our mothers had been pushing us to try CatholicSingles.com. We both went on the site and did the three-month membership to see what it was all about.
Later I found out, Joe had been on the site only about a month and a half before I emailed him. He tried it because a friend of his suggested internet dating and his dad had told him to go to church to meet a nice girl. He decided to put the two together and did a search on the internet and found your site. We emailed back and forth for about a month and our first phone call lasted almost two hours. By the end of it we had our first date set for the following week, July 8, 2003!
Joe and I both went on CatholicSingles.com to meet someone with a similar faith background. Since our religion is such a strong part of our moral and ethical upbringing, we knew we wanted to be with someone who had those same values and wanted them for their future children.
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On Easter Morning 2005 Joe asked me to marry him, he stitched my ring to a big pink stuffed bunny. Joe said he wanted to do it on a day he knew we would see my whole family so we could celebrate. Only five and a half months later, on a lovely Monday afternoon, October 10, 2005 we got married!
We lived only 30 miles from each other, but in Southern California we might as well have been in separate states. We know it was fate that we met each other, and without your site it never would have happened. Thank you for making the most difficult part of connecting with someone, a whole lot easier.
Anne and Joe
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Dear Catholic Singles,
In July of 2002, I enrolled in Catholic Singles, based on the advice of my cousin, who had enjoyed being a site member. I was pretty disinterested and noncommital about the idea of online dating, having never done it before this enrollment. I had been on the site about two weeks when I received a funny and interesting email. Seamus had been on CatholicSingles.com for a short while and had decided I would be his last attempt at online dating, which he had started to find tiresome due to other secular singles websites. I wrote him back, somewhat interested but not too hopeful.
However, Seamus was the first person who contacted me and the last. Seamus and I had many things in common; we knew this just from our emails: the same sense of humor, value of faith and family, and a common Irish heritage. We went on our first date on July 28, 2002. Neither one of us wanted the date - dinner and a walk - to end. We were both instantly comfortable with each other. We spent the next two years in a long distance relationship - about three hours apart within upstate New York. This was challenging but drew us even closer together in many ways. We spent precious time together enjoying nature in the Adirondacks, museums in the city and just getting to know one another.
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Kira & Seamus
Married: July 2006
"I don't think either one of us ever really thought we would marry someone from "the Internet" but God obviously had other plans for us!! Thank you, Catholic Singles. Someday, we will tell our grandchildren about our time - however limited! - on Catholic Singles!
God is good."
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On December 4, 2004, Seamus proposed at our favorite nature preserve. We were married on July 30, 2005 in our beautiful historic church in Albany. Bagpipers led us out of the Mass and into our life together.
CatholicSingles.com offered an array of opportunities for Seamus and I, but ultimately, it led to the best opportunity of both our lives: to marry someone who held Catholic moral beliefs and values in the same esteem AND who was a fun, loving, humourous and gentle person. We are extremely grateful for that. I don't think either one of us ever really thought we would marry someone from "the Internet" but God obviously had other plans for us!! Thank you, Catholic Singles. Someday, we will tell our grandchildren about our time - however limited! - on Catholic Singles! God is good.
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Sarah & Tom
Married: July 2006
"My roommate, in Michigan, just laughed when I said, "Well, I've found my soulmate, it''s too bad he lives in Denver, Colorado!" I know it is cliche to say it was love at first sight especially in the arena of on-line dating where relationships are rarely "first sight" but I knew there was something special about this one."
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Dear CatholicSingles.com,
Tom and I met in January 2003 in the chatroom on CatholicSingles.com. I was scanning the profiles as was my habit when chatting with new people, and I realized that Tom and I had something in common, we had both been to World Youth Day Toronto 2002. I thought that this bald cowboy from Colorado was kind of cute and very interesting. My roommate, in Michigan, just laughed when I said, "Well, I''ve found my soulmate, it''s too bad he lives in Denver, Colorado!" I know it is cliche to say it was love at first sight especially in the arena of on-line dating where relationships are rarely "first sight" but I knew there was something special about this one.
On October 24th, 2004 Tom got down on one knee and proposed at the Mother Cabrini Shrine (where we had gone on that first spring break trip the year before.) Then on July 2, 2005, Tom and I were forever joined in Holy Matrimony at Immaculate Heart of Mary parish back home in Lansing. Now a little more than a year later we are excitedly awaiting the birth of our first child, John Paul. To tell our success story about meeting online and falling in love was a little strange at first, but now I cannot imagine my life any differently.
Sarah & Tom
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Dear CatholicSingles.com,
This note is to thank you for your services. Mike and I are getting married in August. Mike initially emailed me in July 2004. It turned out he already knew several of my friends and attended events at my church, our paths had just never crossed.
Last December, he proposed on a suspension bridge above a cloud rain forest in Costa Rica. We have been busy getting ready for our wedding and spending our lives together, as well as going on lots of adventures together. I never thought God would have me meet my future husband on the Internet! (I'm sure glad I listened to my friends who almost dared me to do it!)
Thank you so much,
Christine
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Christine & Mike
Married: August 2006
"I never thought God would have me meet my future husband on the Internet! (I'm sure glad I listened to my friends who almost dared me to do it!)"
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Tessa & Isaac
Engaged: 2006
"CatholicSingles.com, I thank you for helping to fulfill God's plan and for introducing me to my best friend and soul mate. He's a man that I can be completely open with, a man that knows me better than anyone, a man that I love more than words can express and a man that I cannot wait to spend forever with!!!!" - Tessa
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Dear CatholicSingles.com,
I joined CatholicSingles.com in December of 2003 and little did I know that I would find my soulmate and best friend. It took six months to finally meet her. I had just returned from a cruise vacation to Bermuda and decided to check my e-mail on the CatholicSingles.com website. To my surprise, Tessa (laughnsmile76) had contacted me while I was away on vacation.
Amazingly, it did not take long for us to begin learning about one another through e-mailing on the website for two weeks and realize there was something very special developing between us. I gathered the courage to call her a week later and things just took off from there.
It didn't take long during our first meeting to realize that there was a potential for something special to develop between us. We have now been dating for over a year and a half and both of us realize that we were meant to be with one another. In that being the case, I decided to propose to Tessa on Christmas Eve. She said "YES" and now we are planning to marry on July 28, 2007.
Isaac
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Dear Catholic Singles,
My husband Ken and I met on your website back in August 2002. We were married this past June 18th, 2005. Thank you.
I joined CatholicSingles.com in March 2002. I was scared but excited to
try this because I was tired of not meeting anyone and thought this might
give me a good chance. I emailed several guys but nothing happened until
August of '02. That's when I saw Ken's profile newly posted. He looked
like someone I might be interested in, so I emailed him and just said, "hi."
I received a response back from Ken the next day, and he had quite a bit to say.
After emailing for what seemed like a long time, though it was really only 2
weeks, Ken gave me his phone number. We talked for a month before we
actually met. Our phone calls were wonderful and usually lasted hours. Our
first meeting was October 5th, 2002, and it lasted over 6 hours. There was
definitely a connection!
We continued to date and see each other over the weekends since we lived
over an hour away from each other. We have so much in common from the
way we were raised to our fathers both graduating from the same university
in the same school of business to what we like to do in our free time to our
core beliefs and values.
In June 2004 Ken proposed at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. It was a beautiful and
perfect day. And this past June we were married. Thank you CatholicSingles.com for giving Catholic singles an opportunity to meet one another.
Without your website, my husband and I never would have met.
Ken and Christine Glassmeyer
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Christine & Ken
Married: June 2005
"Thank you CatholicSingles.com for giving Catholic singles an opportunity to meet one another. Without your website, my husband and I never would have met."
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Cyndi and Mike
Married: 2006
"We also thank Catholic Singles for bringing us together!"
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Dear CatholicSingles.com,
Just when you think the Lord has asked you to join the Single Life vocation and you prepare for it by praying day and night that He wants this for you, is when it happens! That's when you meet the one true love of your life. That is what happened to screen names, Mikeinva and Fstaqwn!
Several nights in the chatroom in May 2005, seeing the same screen names, same time, same place, did the Pooh icon catch my eye and my sense of humor, and next thing I knew, I get an Instant Message from the Pooh icon. We chatted in Messenger every night and eventually exchanged phone numbers. And it was that first phone call that I heard the voice that would some day become my husband.
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Then it came time for the most challenging times of any relationship. Who was going to visit who?...Mikeinva was on the East Coast and I was on the West Coast.
We had to just go with the flow and give the relationship to God. And that is what we did. We knew from the very start it was meant to be. Sometimes life has a way of letting you know who your soulmate, friend, partner, lover for life, and The Lord''s choice for you is going to be!!
Through keeping the communication alive and getting through obstacles of Mike's mom becoming very ill after a stroke in November (right before Mike proposed to me), losing Mike's mom 2 weeks before our wedding, just told us more that the Lord was there for us and we were meant to be together.
Our wedding was just as we wanted it to be...an Irish FIESTA! The ending and beginning of so many experiences can only be held up by one man, GOD! And we thank Him every day of our lives for all our blessings!
We also thank Catholic Singles for bringing us together! There would have been no way possible that we would have met. I was at the beach in "The OC", while he was at the White House!
We also share our success story with anyone who asks, including at our Engagement Encounter weekend.
So one last note to those of you who may not believe yet that there is someone out there for you - it is true when they say, "when you least expect it, it will happen". Because it does happen!
May God Bless you and all those we met while in chat!!!
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Dear Catholic Singles,
I was a 41 year old widower who had lost his wife in an accident some six years before that left me with a badly crippled daughter and many responsibilities. I had dated for about four years or so but did not find what I was looking for. So, I tried dating services. A very expensive secular service yielded slim results, a Christian service was better, but I had no success until I found Catholic Singles.
Lily was 33 year old, never dated, never married. She was a refugee in a strange country and recently liberated from a long obligation taking care of family. Catholic Singles was the first and only place she would look for a spouse. The first two contacts she made did not work out, but then she found Richard's Profile.
Lily e-mailed me. She was not what I was expecting. But both of us had prayed to God reverently for a spouse and were willing to accept whom He sent us. I was a fat white guy and she was a short skinny Chinese girl, but I wanted to meet her. We set up a short date. I met her on the steps of the Cathedral in San Francisco. She invited me in to begin our relationship with the Rosary before the Blessed Mother. I chose the Luminous Mysteries which I recited by heart and added my own reflections to establish my "credentials" as a Catholic. We went to the business her family owned to get permission, as was the custom in her culture, to go to the Park for a Picnic. That was followed by several more visits back and fourth and a strong bond of friendship and determination to bridge the cultural gap between us and develop in the faith we shared together. Great prayer and contemplation let us both to commit to each other in marriage and our relationship solidified in the pre-Cana process and a year of happy marriage.
Lily & Richard
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Lily & Richard
Married: 2005
"I had dated for about four years or so but did not find what I was looking for. So, I tried dating services. A very expensive secular service yielded slim results, a Christian service was better, but I had no success until I found Catholic Singles."
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Cecilia & Pete
Married: January 2005
"We will always thank God... and will be grateful to CatholicSingles.com!"
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Dear CatholicSingles.com,
After another single birthday in the fall of 2003 and following a Christian friend's advice, I decided to channel my energy into a Catholic site with the hope of finding a partner who would share my religious beliefs. Pete returned from the holiday season in Spain with similar thoughts in mind. In late February 2004, we swapped a few emails and agreed to meet over a casual dinner on March 5th. After an almost 3-hour dinner, we knew we had a lot in common. Despite being raised in opposite ends of Texas and traveling throughout the world to different places, we both had similar stories to share about family, friends and dreams. Within a few dates, it was clear we were meant to find each other. We were engaged 4 months later and married on January 22, 2005.
We will always thank God for blessing us in our relationship and will be grateful to CatholicSingles.com for providing the venue for us to meet!
May God bless you always.
Cecilia & Pete
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Dear Catholic Singles,
Thank you for your valuable service. Rob and I met through your website
in August of 2003. After two weeks of emailing and talking to each
other on the phone, we met for the first time. After 3 dates, we knew
we had something special. We continued to date and in October of 2004,
Rob proposed. We just got married in May of 2005 at a
beautiful church ceremony with all our family and friends.
Thank you CS for providing a forum for Catholics to meet who are serious
about their faith. Rob and I both were and had trouble in the past
finding someone with a deep commitment to their faith. We had tried the
traditional single groups, church groups, and friend fix-up route to no
avail. Rob and I both knew what we were looking for, and after reading
each other's profiles, we knew the other was serious about their faith
and about finding a mate. That was confirmed through our subsequent
conversations. Who would have thought one little email could bring a
guy from the City and a girl from the burbs to each other, but here we
are and we are extrememly grateful.
To those of you still looking, we offer our story as a sign of hope.
This method may not work for everyone, but it is an option and it can
have great results. Just pray for God's direction and He will lead you.
Lisa and Robert Jost
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Lisa & Robert
Married: May 2005
"Who would have thought one little email could bring a guy from the City and a girl from the burbs to each other, but here we are and we are extrememly grateful."
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Mary Jane & Greg
Married: December 2004
"We have four grown children, three of whom went to the same high school.
And yet it took CatholicSingles.com to bring us together. We were married by his brother, a priest in Alaska, in December 2004."
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Dear CatholicSingles.com,
In October of 2003, my daughters convinced me to try the internet as a source of meeting new men. Marriage was definitely not on my mind. As a widow for nearly 9 years I had become rather set in my ways and I was not looking for much of a change. But I did want to find someone I could meet for dinner or a play or any one of New York's cultural events.
After a long lecture on internet safety and how to act on a blind date, my daughters told me to think of something that was important to me and then find a singles group that matched. As a teacher in a New York Archdiocesan High School, religion was definitely a priority and a quick look on the internet led me to CatholicSingles.com.
I met several wonderful men on CatholicSingles.com, but nothing clicked until I found Quietwalks. We lived about 20 miles from one another, but my job was only about 3 miles from his home. I made the connection and after several e-mails, we had our first date the day before Thanksgiving. We clicked from day one and from there the relationship seemed almost guided by another force.
We have four grown children, three of whom went to the same high school. And yet it took CatholicSingles.com to bring us together. We were married by his brother, a priest in Alaska, in December 2004. We just celebrated our one year anniversary and we look forward to many years together. Thank you for bringing us together!
Mary Jane
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Dear Catholic Singles,
My wife and I were married on December 17, 2005 in a small but joyful ceremony in Nova Scotia, Canada.
After several years of meeting and dating all the wrong people the "traditional way" we finally surrendered ourselves to God's plan for each of
us- whatever that was- whether it be married or single. And so when we joined Catholic Singles in March, 2005, neither of us held high expectations
but prayed that if anything were to happen, it would be with a partner who shared the same values and faith foundation.
Only God's intervention could have brought us together as my wife lived in Nova Scotia, Canada and I was living in Minnesota. In our profiles, we had
both checked the box to meet someone over "any distance" but neither of us expected that someone to be from another country (funny how God works).
There was an immediate connection on e-mail and our first phone call lasted over five hours.
We complete each other's sentences, laugh at the same things, and are so
well matched it is truly amazing. We can just be ourselves with each other
and it feels incredible to have met the soulmate God had intended for each
of us all along.
On August 20, 2005, I proposed to Kerry to our song, "The Eyes of My Angel"
by Pat Balder. We married in Nova Scotia in December which was our 10th
in-person meeting (a short courtship being completely out of character for
both of us). Getting married during the season of our Christ's birth seemed
to be the most appropriate way for us to thank God for bringing us together.
In a world tainted with cynicism and doubt, we feel especially blessed in
knowing that it was our faith in God and in love that ultimately brought us
together. At the center of our deep love and friendship is a faith-based
commitment to grow in Christ together and to honor and celebrate our
Sacrament of Marriage forever. We thank you for your part in helping God
bring us together in "perfect love".
May God Bless You Abundantly,
Kerry & Troy
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Kerry & Troy
Married: December 2005
"In a world tainted with cynicism and doubt, we feel especially blessed in knowing that it was our faith in God and in love that ultimately brought us together. At the center of our deep love and friendship is a faith-based commitment to grow in Christ together and to honor and celebrate our Sacrament of Marriage forever. We thank you for your part in helping God bring us together."
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Lisa Ann & Kevin
Married: April 2004
"I believe that it was God's plan for us to find each other on CatholicSingles.com. Thank you Catholic Singles!"
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I was searching for a nice catholic man to date, so I joined several catholic dating websites. On August 2002, I decided to give Catholicsingles.com a try and I chose the user name "Autumsun." I was just about to give up all hope in finding that special someone on the internet when out of the blue I received a message from "athletic_engineer" on the Catholicsingles.com website.
His message sounded so cute, so I decided to check him out. As I studied his picture and profile, I got very excited! At that moment, I knew that I had found my soulmate. We chated on the telephone a few times and then went out on a date. It turns out that we have the same interests and we both are highly involved in the church. I did not think I could meet anyone like him on the internet. Athletic_Engineer ended up becoming my husband on 4/24/04. I believe that it was God's plan for us to find each other on Catholicsingles.com. Thank you Catholic Singles!
Lisa Ann & Kevin
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Dear CatholicSingles.com:
My wife and I met on Catholic Singles in May of 2003, at which time Debbie was, ironically, "Member of the Month." After emailing each other for a few weeks, we exchanged telephone numbers and finally spoke a few weeks later. Our initial phone conversation lasted well over three hours. Approximately one month later, I flew from Maryland to California to visit Debbie for the first time, in person.
As is obvious this was truly a long distance relationship. We exchanged eight cross country trips prior to our engagement on June 30, 2004, followed by another eight cross-country visits prior to our wedding day in Westlake Village, CA on July 23, 2005. Our relationship is proof that GOD works in wonderful ways and our love for one another is proof of his work even barring the distance and obstacles between us. We now reside in Easton, MD - just east of Annapolis, MD. Thank you for providing us with the vehicle in which to meet. We are forever grateful. We wish all of you on this site many blessings in finding your soul mate.
God Bless - Greg & Debbie Smith
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Debbie & Greg
Married: July 2005
"Our relationship is proof that GOD works in wonderful ways and our love for one another is proof of his work even barring the distance and obstacles between us."
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Dunleavy
Married: December 2005
"We feel especially blessed to have found each other and thank the Lord for introducing us to each other through Catholic Singles."
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Brian and I met on the Catholic Singles website in August of 2003. I had only been a member for a few months when I came across Brian's profile. As it turned out, Brian was only a few weeks from his subscription expiration when I e-mailed him. We e-mailed each other a few times, and then finally progressed to the phone. Our first conversation lasted two hours and ended with us finding out that we had the same birthday exactly six years apart!
The similarities didn't end there and we had our first date on September 20th, 2003. Since that time, Brian and I have been steadily dating and have endured a lot together, including my mom being diagnosed with cancer. Through it all, our Catholic faith has not only kept us together, but allowed us to grow closer and more in love. On August 10th of 2004, Brian and I got engaged at LOVE Park in Philadelphia. Our wedding is set for December of 2005. I can say with absolute certainty that Brian and I are soulmates and that Catholic Singles was the vessel that brought us together. We feel especially blessed to have found each other and thank the Lord for introducing us to each other through Catholic Singles.
Thanks! - Brian Dunleavy
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Dear CatholicSingles.com:
Scott and I met on the CatholicSingles.com site in May of 2004. I had recently moved from NY to NC and was looking to meet a Catholic, professional like myself. The bar scene wasn't my thing and being that I work from home, it is difficult to meet other professionals. I had tried speed-dating and one of the more "mainstream" online match services and didn't find that someone special. I decided to try CatholicSingles.com.
The first week I joined Catholic Singles, I received emails from a lot of nice people, but many were from out of state. One night later in the next week I accidentally entered the chat room thinking I was going to read about how to do the chats --- and Scott introduced himself.
Scott and I met for our '1st date' at the Macaroni Grill about a week or so after we met in the chat room. He was as charming in person as he was on the phone and that night I knew he was the one. We had so much in common - from values and religious background to education and upbringing. We dated throughout the summer.
Scott and I got engaged on Sept. 3rd, 2004 on a small island off the coast of PR, called Vieques. It was quite a surprise and quite a romantic proposal, but Scott is quite an amazing man and I would have expected no less from him.
We were married in on a beautiful Spring day at St. Benedict's Catholic Church in Greensboro, NC on May 21, 2005 -- one year and one day from our first date at the Macaroni Grill.
Thank you - Karen Galiger
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Karen and Scott
Married: May 2005
"The first week I joined Catholic Singles, I received emails from a lot of nice people, but many were from out of state. One night later... I accidentally entered the chat room thinking I was going to read about how to do the chat and Scott introduced himself."
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Ashley and Andy
Married: April 2005
"We are so sincerely happy and amazed we found one another. And we are grateful that Catholic Singles had a role to play in helping our paths cross."
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I had just moved to Chicago as a medical student and had not met a lot of people in my new city. Andy had always been in Chicago, except for a small stint at Notre Dame. With the encouragement of friends, we both signed up for Catholic Singles to meet some new people but without much expectation. In May of 2004, Andy and I started a few conversations on-line and had spoken once or twice by phone.
Since I had never been to a Cubs game, and Andy being a very big Cubs fan, he invited me out to a game so that we could actually meet. We had a great time, the cubs lost, but we continued our evening over dinner and both thought we would keep in touch. We did keep in touch.
We were engaged to be married in April, 2005. Our ceremony and celebration will take place in San Diego on August 5th, 2005, just a few weeks away. We are so sincerely happy and amazed we found one another. And we are grateful that Catholic Singles had a role to play in helping our paths cross.
Thanks! - Ashley and Andy
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Well, I had been divorced for about 1 and a half years and had tried other dating services, mainly to get back into the swing again as it had been so many years since I had dated. I found that other web-based services were lacking what I wouldn't compromise on - that was dedication to my Catholic beliefs. After doing a search, I came upon Catholic Singles.
I was browsing one day and noticed Donald's profile and picture. We were both "older" and had had a lifetime of experience. We each knew what we wanted from life and one important thing was to find someone to spend the rest of our life with. Donald proposed to me in March of this year and we are planning to get married in 2006. Managing a long-distance relationship is very challenging but we've used modern technology, i.e., e-mail, cell phones, and of course, plane trips to one another's home town to spend time together.
We are so compatible. Who would have thought that a friendship could blossom into something so wonderful? He's truly my soulmate and he feels the same about me.
- Loretta and Donald
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Loretta and Donald
Engaged: March 2005
"We are so compatible. Who would have thought that a friendship could blossom into something so wonderful?"
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