Human Love down here on Earth... when it's true it helps us to taste Divine Love. - Saint Josemaría Escríva

Patricio and I knew instantly that we wanted to get married as soon as possible. It’s so crazy, but we were talking about marriage before we even started dating. I know! We even had conversations of growing a family together. We started dating at sixteen years old and it’s pretty bizarre for the concept of marriage to come up when you’re around this age. We were certainly young to be thinking about marriage. Throughout the years that we were dating. We felt the call from God to get married. We loved each other and wanted to grow together with the Lord. We were talking about marriage more in depth. We decided to have at least two years to plan our wedding and 2024 would be our year. He indeed proposed to me on September 25, 2022. However, on the part of when we would get married was not in God’s Plan. The tables turned and now here we are months away from receiving the sacrament of marriage. Before he proposed to me I frequently reminded him that my dream was to be proposed with God present in the Tabernacle because God was the reason for the existence of our love. Every day I was anticipating the day that he would propose to me. I remember one day I actually felt the feeling that he was going to propose. We were at the Cathedral of St. Andrew and after the Holy Mass, Patricio said he needed to talk to the Priest about something personal. I actually said to myself, “This can’t be. Is he going to propose today?!” I was going through so many emotions, just to find out that today wasn’t the day. I even asked him. And well he hid everything so well that I believed everything he said. He just told me, “No. I just asked him about advice for when choosing a spiritual director.” I obviously believed it because we were talking about that previously. That day he didn’t propose, but he asked the Priest if he could use the Cathedral to propose to me. However, I didn’t know this until after he proposed to me. On the Sunday of September 25th we were both at the Diocese to prepare ourselves to serve at a retreat named “Search”. I remember we decided to go to the Holy Mass at the Cathedral, so we had to leave early from the Diocese. At this point, I really didn’t think of anything and I think because I would always anticipate about getting proposed every single day. So I had no more hope. I did, but I was like, “Okay, Darci don’t get excited too quickly.” And well that’s what I did. I remember when Patricio told me to wear a dress that I loved and I sure did. When we were going to the Cathedral. I started thinking, “Is today the day?” We attended the celebration of the Holy Mass. After the Holy Mass I started to notice that he would always go to the back. That’s when it got suspicious. He then asked me if we could pray the Holy Rosary and I agreed. We prayed and after that the Priest came to give us a blessing. At that point. I started crying out of nowhere. I felt that today was the special day. Out of random he would always tell me to not look behind me. The reason was because there was a couple capturing our moment by taking pictures and recording. He then told me to go to the middle of where the Tabernacle is and there he started telling me beautiful words, but honestly I don’t remember what he said because I was full of emotions. Thankful for the moment. Only with God, Him, and I. He then got down on one knee, and proposed to me. A special gift engraved in my ring is a phrase that states, “Santidad” which means Holiness because we strive to reach Holiness together. Totus Tuus♡