A note from the founder

Let's redeem dating.

“The person is a good toward which the only proper and adequate attitude is love.”
— St. John Paul II, Love and Responsibility (1960)

What are people for? What are power and resources for? Secular culture answers: efficiency, optimization, utility. The Church, Her teachings, and Her sacraments, answer differently. We are made for communion. For friendship. For community. For marriage and family. And, finally, for union with God. After all, the Lord is obsessed with unity.

Holy Flirtation began as an idea that came to me in prayer, and all these details seemed to come instantaneously, which I could only take as a sign of the Holy Spirit. As I continued to think about it, it grew into a small response to a much bigger problem: relationships breaking down, young Catholics isolated, and almost no intentional path toward the sacrament of marriage. So we set a table, good food, good drink, and a relaxed, high-touch speed dating atmosphere. Prayerful. Entertaining.

Ordered toward something real.

— Josh

Paolo Veronese, The Wedding at Cana, 1563
Paolo Veronese, The Wedding at Cana, 1563.
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