....The youth that are left find it increasingly difficult to find marriage partners and many are left feeling despondent.
It has come to my attention that in the past year a youth group was setup in SA. What troubled me was that the youth group was used to find partners. The three organisers of the youth camp found themselves partners at the youth camp. I also heard that some of the youth who did not attend the camp had asked to change the date to make it so that more people to attend. I was told that the organisers refused but did not give a reason for refusing. Seems to me there was an urgency in that they needed to find themselves partners. Furthermore the youth that did not attend asked that the conferences be recorded so that they could hear what they missed. To date there has been no communication regarding what was discussed.
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One thing I know is that parents and priests are failing our youth in South Africa and I do not see a future here for the SSPX.
Difficulty in finding a spouse is the same in all western countries. Many threads here have shown it. In days when parents arranged marriages for their children it was a different matter. But for "youth", left to their own devices to find a spouse, find it very difficult.
I do not see anything wrong with the concept of youth camps. It is a good way to bring young people together on a social level and is not a bad thing
per se. They are mixing with fellow Catholics which is a good way to find a Catholic spouse.
Your use of the word partner is a bit confusing to me. What do you mean by partner? In my country that word has come to mean a de-facto marriage. I presume, or at least hope, that by partner you mean a suitor. It sounds a bit like you are going on hearsay, although it also sounds that there is reason for concern.
Was this camp run in the name of SSPX or was it organised entirely independently as in young people getting together of their own accord?
I wonder also how you define "youth".
One could decide on a marriage partner over the time span of a weekend. Though I was not "youth" when I met my spouse, I decided he was the man for me on our first meeting on one evening. This was confirmed over our <3 months courtship, and 35 years later I still think I made a good decision.
But the fact that "t
his young lady (had) a partner of many years" is a bad thing. If you can't decide in a short while whether or not marriage is going to eventuate, she seems to be not a good person to be organising a "youth" camp. Long relationships like this are rarely advisable.