Darren had come into the Catholic Church six years ago and the 39-year-old from Williamsburg, Va. was hoping the Holy Spirit would lead him to the right spouse. He’d been working a prayer to St. Raphael for Choosing A Wise Marriage Partner and come to CatholicMatch to further that goal.
Perhaps St. Raphael wedged his way into Denise’s inner circle, because it was the persistent prompting of a friend that caused the 33-year-old from nearby Chesapeake to join CatholicMatch. “I never imagined the day after I joined I would meet my best friend,” she recalled. “But I did!”
It was the early part of this past February that Darren & Denise exchanged emotigrams, and they spent a few days messaging and chatting online. They decided to get together on February 10 for a movie. And the positive fruit was instantaneous.
“It was love at first sight,” Darren told CatholicMatch. He added that while they didn’t call it that for a while, it began a stretch of over seventy dates in five months. Denise was no less certain of the immediate connection. “From that point on—maybe even earlier—I knew the Holy Spirit had led me to my soulmate,” she recalled.
Shared laughter is a big part of Darren & Denise's friendship.
