MISSION

Juventutem DC is a chapter of the Juventutem International Federation, a global Catholic network fostering the sanctification of the youths worldwide according to the traditions of the Catholic Church. Juventutem DC adopts as its mission this sanctification of young adults, aged 18-36, in the Washington, DC metropolitan area.

It adopts this mission at the invitation of Pope Benedict XVI who, in his 2007 motu proprio, Summorum Pontificum, affirmed the liberty and desirability of celebration of the liturgical books of the ancient Roman Rite in its most recent promulgation in 1962 by Pope St. John XXIII as an “extraordinary expression” of the Church’s worship, which “must be given due honour for its venerable and ancient usage.”

To this end, which it views as a harmonious response to the Church's call for a New Evangelization, Juventutem DC seeks to build a local membership of young adults and clergy united in the Catholic faith and expressed by a love of her traditional liturgies and spiritual formation, particularly in the form of spiritual and corporal works of mercy.

Juventutem DC collaborates with youth groups, young adult associations, parishes, dioceses, oratories, religious orders, communities, institutes, universities, charitable organizations, and all other like-minded individuals and corporate organizations, locally, nationally, and internationally to achieve its aims. In all of these collaborations, Juventutem DC’s principal aim is for the fruitful implementation of Summorum Pontificum in the Washington, DC metropolitan area.