Best Catholic church in Arlington for a young, single person?

[Anonymous]

I have been attending a parish near my apartment and the people are nice enough, but I want to get involved with a young adult type ministry and this church does not have much going for it in that department. Anyone have any suggestions?

[Anonymous]

St. Matthews downtown DC is great for singles. Worth crossing the bridge.

[Anonymous]

Our Lady of Lourdes in Arlington

http://www.ololcc.net/Catholic/Young_Adults.html

[Anonymous]

Sorry to hijack, but I am looking to get involved in something similar but don't know anyone else interested in going with me! I know it's weird to think people at a church group would be unwelcoming, but I feel awkward just appearing at a bible study/event/talk etc.

[Anonymous]

St Charles in Clarendon hands down. Attend the 6pm Sunday mass, established originally for all the young singles in the area. The parish has gotten much more traditional in the last four years with the change in priests but there is a very active young adults group that seems to still be thriving and meets regularly for social and religious gatherings.

[Anonymous]

St Charles

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:St Charles in Clarendon hands down. Attend the 6pm Sunday mass, established originally for all the young singles in the area. The parish has gotten much more traditional in the last four years with the change in priests but there is a very active young adults group that seems to still be thriving and meets regularly for social and religious gatherings.

St. Charles if you're anti-abortion and a fan of Trumpism, Paul Ryan, etc. If you're more progressive, then Our Lady Queen of Peace.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:St Charles in Clarendon hands down. Attend the 6pm Sunday mass, established originally for all the young singles in the area. The parish has gotten much more traditional in the last four years with the change in priests but there is a very active young adults group that seems to still be thriving and meets regularly for social and religious gatherings.

St. Charles if you're anti-abortion and a fan of Trumpism, Paul Ryan, etc. If you're more progressive, then Our Lady Queen of Peace.

OP here: I visited our lady queen of peace when I first moved here and did not like it at all, I'm not even super conservative but it was very out there for me. I'll have to check out St. Charles.

[Anonymous]

Ha i was going to say our lady queen of peace, but yes it is very progressive

[Anonymous]

I used to go to the Saturday evening service at St. Charles when I was single - it's great! Most people that go to that service are single. You see a lot of the same faces each week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I used to go to the Saturday evening service at St. Charles when I was single - it's great! Most people that go to that service are single. You see a lot of the same faces each week.

Unfortunately St Charles has changed a lot in the last few years under the current pastor and most of those changes have not been for the better. As a result, the vast majority of the lay people who worked there left, many of the various ministries that parishioners volunteered with and made the parish special no longer exist, the music is much more uniform and those musicians who made the 6 pm mass attractive to young singles could no longer perform as in the past, and many many many families and young couples have left for St Anne's or Our Lady Queen of Peace. My family have been parishioners for almost 20 years and frankly I don't know why we haven't switched to either of those yet, though we have started attending St Anne's a few times. The 6 pm mass still attracts a decent amount of young people but that no longer has anything to do with St Charles as a community and everything to do with its location. St Charles is now just like every bland, uninspiring, non descript Catholic church out there and a shell of the great parish it once was. Very sad.

[Anonymous]

I met my DH at the 6pm Mass in 2007. It worked out great for us!

[Anonymous]

Lots of folks in Arlington come into the city for Holy Trinity if the Jesuits are not too liberal for you.
http://trinity.org/young-adults/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I used to go to the Saturday evening service at St. Charles when I was single - it's great! Most people that go to that service are single. You see a lot of the same faces each week.

Unfortunately St Charles has changed a lot in the last few years under the current pastor and most of those changes have not been for the better. As a result, the vast majority of the lay people who worked there left, many of the various ministries that parishioners volunteered with and made the parish special no longer exist, the music is much more uniform and those musicians who made the 6 pm mass attractive to young singles could no longer perform as in the past, and many many many families and young couples have left for St Anne's or Our Lady Queen of Peace. My family have been parishioners for almost 20 years and frankly I don't know why we haven't switched to either of those yet, though we have started attending St Anne's a few times. The 6 pm mass still attracts a decent amount of young people but that no longer has anything to do with St Charles as a community and everything to do with its location. St Charles is now just like every bland, uninspiring, non descript Catholic church out there and a shell of the great parish it once was. Very sad.

I love the shallowness of this reply. You don't get to perform your acoustic guitar St. Louis Jesuits "Bread of Life" ditties anymore. Instead Fr. Planty has installed liturgically pure compositions, namely Gregorian chant and organ music. Now you don't fit in.

Or, you want to join your "VOICE" friends to support some affordable housing project. You ask for help, and Father rightfully asks what on Earth housing finance has to do with salvation!? Again, you don't fit in.

Or you want to teach in the religious education program, but you married a divorced Protestant. Well, of COURSE Father told you that you can't appear before the children. Yet again, you don't fit in.

St. Charles was a haven of secularism before Father became pastor. There was no spiritual and theological core. To purify the Parish, some dirt and mud needed to be washed away. PP, you're some of that mud.

[Anonymous]

Holy Trinity in Georgetown at 5:30 on Sunday. Marymount at 7pm on Sunday.