Diocesan Charismatic Retreat - "In Search of Treasure."
September 17-19
Dominican Retreat House in McLean, VA
Our spiritual director will be Fr. Sam Vaccarella, TOR, Executive Director of the new San Damiano Spirituality Center of the Arlington Diocese. Praise and Worship will be provided by His Songs. There will be daily Mass, prayer meeting, challenging talks, small group sharing, quiet time, and great food in a beautiful location. For those who have never attended a retreat, this is a wonderful opportunity in a local setting to be re-ignited in your faith.
For more info please contact 703-569-5470, or send an email.

CRSC will sponsor one young adult (under 35 and registered at a parish in the Arlington Diocese). To enter the drawing, email leadership@renewal.org with your name and parish by midnight on August 31. 

"Young people ... the Church asks you to go, in the power of the Holy Spirit, to those who are near and those who are far away. Share with them the freedom you have found in Christ. People thirst for genuine inner freedom. They yearn for the Life which Christ came to give in abundance.” – Pope John Paul II, World Youth Day, Denver 1993

The Fresh Anointing

The Fresh Anointing is a Catholic charismatic community of young adults of in their 20's and 30's who meet at St. Anthony Catholic Church in DC for:

• Charismatic Praise and Worship
• Prophetic Words of Life, Love, and Hope from the Holy Spirit
• God's Healing and Transforming Love Experienced through Prayer Ministry
• Fellowship and Friends

The Upper Room Fellowship (TURF)

TURF holds weekly prayer and praise meetings at St. Mary parish in Old Town Alexandria, from 8pm to 9pm with fellowship afterwards.

The meetings occur on Thursdays according to the following schedule:

• 1st Thursday: No meeting
• 2nd Thursday: Praise and worship
• 3rd Thursday: Small groups for prayer ministry
• 4th Thursday: Guest speakers

The Fellowship also holds social events which are posted on the group website.

Arise DC - Young Adult Festival
“I live, no longer I, but Christ lives in me.” - Galatians 2:20

ARISE DC is a day-long young adult Catholic festival featuring praise and worship leader Matt Maher and inspiring and challenging speakers Paul George from ADORE 2097 and Ralph Martin from Renewal Ministries. Join hundreds of young adults from all over the DC area for awesome music, dynamic speakers, fellowship, praise and worship, the celebration of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, and Eucharistic Adoration.
Matt Maher singing "Lay It Down"

ARISE DC is hosted by Youth Arise International, the Washington and Arlington dioceses, and several lay organizations and associations. ARISE DC is planned, organized, and attended by young adult Catholics from diverse cultural backgrounds, and represents the universality of the Catholic Church.

The theme of ARISE DC 2009 was Galatians 2:20, a call to conversion and vocation, "I live no longer I, but Christ lives in me." At the first ARISE DC conference, 350 young adults gathered, and 20 gave their lives to Jesus as personal Savior and Lord during Eucharistic Adoration in response to the invitation given by Bishop Sam Jacobs to follow Christ with all of their hearts.

Who? Young Adults age 18-35+
Where? Catholic University of America, Pryzbyla Center, Washington, DC


Themes of past Arise Festivals
October 7, 2007 - "Just as I have loved you; you also should love one another." - John 13:34

July 2008 - World Youth Day was held on the international level in Sydney, Australia. The theme was Acts 1:8, "You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you; and you will be my witnesses." Youth Arise International held a Young Adult Festival in Brisbane prior to World Youth Day 2008, and then assisted with an evening of praise and worship before the Blessed Sacrament with 150,000 people along Sydney Harbor. The evening, called "Receive the Power," was a collaboration by many groups and movements. Matt Maher (USA), Robert Galea (Malta), and Hillsong United (Youth music ministry of Hillsong, Australia's largest Protestant congregation) lead praise and worship.  Bishop Grech lead the culmination of the evening with Eucharistic Adoration and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament.

February 21, 2009 - "I live, no longer I, but Christ lives in me." - Galatians 2:20

Homily, July 20, 2008, World Youth Day

"Dear young people, let me now ask you a question. What will you leave to the next generation? Are you building your lives on firm foundations, building something that will endure? Are you living your lives in a way that opens up space for the Spirit in the midst of a world that wants to forget God, or even rejects him in the name of a falsely-conceived freedom? How are you using the gifts you have been given, the “power” which the Holy Spirit is even now prepared to release within you? What legacy will you leave to young people yet to come? What difference will you make?

The power of the Holy Spirit does not only enlighten and console us. It also points us to the future, to the coming of God’s Kingdom. What a magnificent vision of a humanity redeemed and renewed we see in the new age promised by today’s Gospel! Saint Luke tells us that Jesus Christ is the fulfilment of all God’s promises, the Messiah who fully possesses the Holy Spirit in order to bestow that gift upon all mankind. The outpouring of Christ’s Spirit upon humanity is a pledge of hope and deliverance from everything that impoverishes us. It gives the blind new sight; it sets the downtrodden free, and it creates unity in and through diversity (Luke 4:18-19; Isaiah 61:1-2). This power can create a new world: it can “renew the face of the earth” (Psalm 104:30)!"