Father Fernando is an Opus Dei priest and chaplain of several residence halls in Valencia, Spain. He is 67 years old, lives in Ibiza, Spain, and began matchmaking Catholic couples 13 years ago.
His methodology is as follows: People hoping to find their Catholic match fill out a form. They include their name, age, birthday, height, studies, place of employment, hobbies, virtues, shortcomings, what they would like in a person, their commitment to the faith, and their ecclesiastical movement of formation in the Church. Once each applicant submits their information, Father Fernando analyzes it and considers possible matches. If he sees compatibilities between people, he passes along each his candidate’s card. Then, if they give the go-ahead, he shares contact information.
“I pass on the phone number and tell the person that they will contact them in 24 hours.
And there they will say or do whatever they want. I already forget there. My work is finished”, the priest told the
digital newspaper El Español. “270 have married. I counted it. Not one more and not one less. Maybe in a week I can tell you that there are five more, but for now they are those,” he assured.
And although the number of marriages is incredible, what causes him the most happiness is that
none of the couples have divorced.
