Helena was looking for a relationship with depth. Real depth, the kind of which is rooted in faith. One long-distance connection seemed to be promising, but then it turned out that things weren’t as they seemed.
“Seven out of seven doesn’t always say everything,” she said regarding the faith questions that are a part of the CatholicMatch profile. "It is interesting that once you have been through a bad marriage…and come back to the single life again, you see the bright red flags quicker.”
Then Craig came along, and those red flags became green lights, thanks to the depth of his faith. Craig had been through a bad marriage of his own, and was devoted to keeping his mind, heart and soul focused on Christ. Heavily influenced by his reading of Blessed John Paul II’s Theology of the Body, Craig further avoided a lot of television and instead watched videos of the saints and the Blessed Mother.
When Craig and Helena found each other online, they made extensive use of Facetime for video conferencing. They spent what was later calculated as the equivalent of six months of weekend dates getting to know each other through video. More important, they used that time to pray together.
“I joined him in his morning and evening prayer of the Liturgy of the Hours,” 46-year-old Helena told CatholicMatch. When it was time for them to meet face-to-face, it would be an understatement to say a strong foundation had been put in place.
This screenshot of Craig and Helena's video chats (note her in the lower left corner), illustrates the intensity of prayer they bring to their courtship.
