[susanb]

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well you folks here are 30% of the real people I knew there......
finding online  participation in rosaries etc too challenging
for my schedule right now but would enjoy that

Susan:

Bethany (with the Catholic Singles evening Rosary Zoom meetings (every night of the week)) is the lady who sponsors those evening Rosaries; and via email to her distribution list, she sends us a link to gain access to the Zoom meetings.  It's very simple -- click on that link and within a few moments, you should be on Zoom.  So if you go to her website -- www.CatholicSinglesNewsletter.com -- and add your name, email address, and phone number where indicated (sometimes she sends text messages to everyone for quick reminders about that given evening's Rosary zoom meeting), and you should eventually begin receiving her twice-weekly emails with the current link (the links change for every zoom meeting).  They're usually scheduled for 7 pm ET; though Sunday evenings, they're (I think) at 6 pm ET, but the schedule is in every email she sends to everyone.

Aside from the schedule of the nightly Rosary zoom meetings, she also has a number of events for which we can register and attend.

Hope this helps.

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Thanks. Mary Alice. I can understand your frustration. My understanding is that websites that have subscriptions with auto-renewal are legally obligated to provide simple, easy-to-use mechanisms to defeat the auto-renewal. It appears that CM may not complying with the law. It is interesting that it was very easy to defeat the auto-renewal on Zoosk, Catholic Chemistry, and e-Harmony. 

This came up on a thread here a few months ago. I cannot remember where or when. So you will have to run a search. I vaguely remember someone saying that the way to defeat the auto-renewal on CM is simply to delete your credit card information. This way, they will not have a card to charge it to. You may want to do this in case they "forget" to turn off the auto-renewal again.

I go to different Catholic churches here but have not had much luck finding prospects there. I think it might help to join a group where you run into the same people all the time. We have a Byzantine parish, which I visit from time to time. In fact, I was just there for Good Friday and went three times during Lent for the Friday night "pre-sanctified" service. The liturgy is beautiful and it is warmer and friendlier than most Latin rite parishes. However, it is mostly families with young children. I am glad some people are having babies but I feel I would stand out like a sore thumb there being single if I joined the parish.

I have had friends who have tried to "fix me up." Unfortunately, the last two were fallen away Catholics, the first one an an atheist and the second an evangelical. I am still friends with the latter but I do not see her as a dating and marriage prospect because of the religious difference and the unannulled divorce.

I certainly understand the feeling of being alone, which is even worse when you see no end in sight. I cannot resolve the paradox of feeling alone while knowing that there are so many of us who are in the same boat.

Thanks again, Mary Alice. I hope your meeting with the gentleman goes well this Sunday. I wish you a very blessed Easter week and season as well.

Thank you, Armand, for your encouragement.

As for your being fixed up, yes, I can see why those two prospects would not have worked out for you.  All of my girlfriends (who are married) have not wanted to fix me up with anyone -- I guess, for lack of knowing anyone.  And another one of my girlfriends said she didn't want to introduce me to two guys she knows because "they're just too creepy," and I trust her judgment.

As for the gent at the Byzantine Rite church, turns out he's married.  So, there ya have it ... back to the drawing board, or rather, to the sewing room... making lots of progress on the current project, which always bring me lots of joy while listening to audio books.

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thanks MA

have noted the contact into to persue this