It's strange that you have so many "eternally single" men AND women, often they are in the category "looking for a serious Catholic for a spouse".

But how can you have a bunch of single men on the one hand,
AND
a bunch of single women, on the other

...and BOTH groups losing hope that they will ever find a decent Catholic spouse, because of the corruption of the modern world (which corrupts even those who attend the Traditional Latin Mass)?

I mean, common sense would say "Pair off, already!" Back in the day, I tried. I showed interest in pretty much every young lady at my chapel that wasn't taken -- all 3 of them -- and I was very frustrated with the rejections I received. Now I indeed deserved those rejections, as I wasn't exactly a great catch back then. I remember thinking "Who am I ever going to marry? I guess I'm not meant to be married." and so forth. (Although I'm married today, I had a very long life as a single person. I can't so easily forget what it was like.)

On a related note, I've observed many times that men & women who attend a small chapel for years consider each other almost like brother & sister, it's such a tight-knit group. There's a scientific explanation for why you're not attracted to your sister, for example. Perhaps the same explanation applies to fellow chapel-goers? When your chapel is 20, 50 or 100 people, it's more like a family than "the general public".

I speak as a life-long traditional Catholic, who attended an independent chapel since birth. I know of just ONE marriage that took place between two members of that chapel -- and that was recently. Most of the people I knew back then ended up marrying non-Catholics, Catholics from somewhere far away, or they are still single!

There must be something to it...

Matthew

Heh.  Well considering I've only been a traddie for a little over a year and now a girl being catholic is very important now.  There are 2 girls that regularly go to Mass here and um well I don't even think they are 18 yet, so that is a dead end.  

Cincy has such a large Trad population I'm looking in that direction.

Matthew,
I hope it's not that hard, but I do worry.  We have 4 sons.  While I am praying that they all are called to the priesthood, I am certain that at least one of them (our oldest) would like to be married.  If that is the case, naturally I pray he is able to find a good Catholic girl to marry.  However, I am aware the odds are stacked against him.  Maybe at least he'll find someone who is willing to convert.  I do, though, believe a bigger danger is the modernist feminist attitudes of young women.  Where will he find a young girl that desires to stay home and raise a family?

Matthew, I think you should play match maker right here and now.

Start pairing these gals and guys off!

+1

My parents went to the same Catholic school.  One of my Mom's 8 sisters went out for ice cream or something with my Father.  My parents married when Mom was 18, fresh out of the Convent school. He had come back from being away at school.  He went to college when he was 16.

This was in the mid to late 1940s, in what my Dad has described as a Catholic 'ghetto'. Dad served Mass every morning at 6:00 a.m. until he left home.  Both sets of grandparents were very devout.

Tragically, I am the only one in my immediate family who attends Mass or tries to lead a Christian life.  

So we just never know who will co-operate with God's Grace and who will fall, but it just as easily might be me if I don't try harder to be good.

I have seen a number of good marriages in which the man was Catholic and converted his lady before they would be married.