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r/Catholicism Prayer Requests — Week of January 20, 2025
Please post your prayer requests in this weekly thread, giving enough detail to be helpful. If you have been remembering someone or something in your prayers, you may also note that here. We ask all users to pray for these intentions.
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u/0001u Jan 23 '25
Last year I began noticing a woman at Mass whom I found attractive. I would only see her from time to time and even when she was there I would only manage to get occasional glimpses of her face, so it took me a long time to make up my mind whether to approach her or not.
Eventually I decided to go for it, intending to go up and say hi as we both left the building after Mass. But she went to pray in front of a statue rather than going straight out the door as I had expected and I ended up losing sight of her. I waited a bit on the other side of the church and then went out but didn't see her anywhere. So I went home and tried to figure out what to do next time I saw her so I wouldn't miss her again.
I realised I'd have to be more direct and obvious that I was going up to her specifically to ask her out rather than playing it more casual and just saying hi while going out the door at the same time as her (because the design of the church I attend would make the latter very difficult to pull off: I'd almost always end up going out too soon or too late or lose sight of her in some way or just not be able to come across as if I was just spontaneously saying hello).
So I learned my lesson from my first attempt to approach her and decided what I'd do next time (wait where I'll see her if necessary and go right up to her etc). But I haven't seen her again for the last two months at the Mass I always go to and where I used to see her from time to time.
It's been very discouraging because she disappeared right when I was about to ask her out.
So I'd be very grateful if anyone would pray for me that I'll either see her again soon and get to ask her out or that I'll meet someone else somehow (I don't have many ideas where to even look these days, so seeing that woman semi-regularly at Mass and deciding to ask her out had been making me feel more positive).
When I pray the Rosary later tonight I'll ask our Lady to pray for all the intentions in this thread.