Catholic dating in Arkansas
Catholic dating in Arkansas: the grape-harvest parishes of Tontitown and Little Italy, Subiaco Abbey, the Latin Mass in Cabot and Springdale, and young adults.
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Short answer
Two Italian villages in Arkansas grew up around their church, and in both the grape harvest is still kept as a feast of the parish.
In Tontitown, in the Ozarks of the northwest, the festival's own history tells how, in the August of 1898, the Italian settlers celebrated their harvest "with a mass of Thanksgiving in the little Church", and that the Tontitown Festival of today grew from it; St Joseph's parish still calls the Grape Festival its tradition. In Little Italy, west of Little Rock, St Francis of Assisi has hosted the grape harvest festival since 1927. One of the founders asked that the church never be moved: "We, the older generation, put it in the middle of the community and we are proud that it is there."
Eighteen places are listed below, each with an address and a link to its own page or its diocese's: the two Italian parishes, Subiaco Abbey and the Benedictine sisters of Fort Smith, the cathedral in Little Rock with a young adult group, two parishes of the traditional Latin Mass, Masses in Vietnamese, Igbo, Malayalam and Spanish, and the Catholic parishes of three universities. They are not every parish; they are the places whose pages we could read.
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Catholics in Arkansas
The whole state is one diocese, the Diocese of Little Rock. Its website was open to us, with a directory of parishes and a statewide list of Mass times that names the language of each Mass, so several cards below link to it.
The traditional Latin Mass has two parishes of the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter: St John the Baptist in Cabot, near Little Rock, and Our Lady of Sorrows in Springdale, in the northwest, where every Mass and sacrament is in the Extraordinary Form.
From the parishes', the abbey's, the sisters', the festival's and the diocese's own pages, opened 24 September 2026
Monks came to the Arkansas River valley in March 1878, sent from St Meinrad in Indiana to serve German Catholic settlers, and founded what became Subiaco Abbey. Benedictine sisters came from Ferdinand, Indiana the same year; their monastery is in Fort Smith, and guests are welcome to pray the Hours and Mass with them.
The diocese's own list names Masses in Vietnamese in North Little Rock, Barling and Jonesboro, in Igbo once a month in North Little Rock, in Malayalam once a month in Bella Vista, in Filipino in Jonesboro, and in Spanish across the state. At the cathedral, the young adult group is for ages eighteen to forty.
Where the community gathers
The eighteen places fall into four parts of the state: Little Rock and the centre, the northwest, the Arkansas River valley, and Jonesboro.
Little Rock and the centre
Little Rock and the centre hold seven: the Cathedral of St Andrew, its young adults, the Shrine of Divine Mercy, St Patrick and St Augustine in North Little Rock, St John the Baptist in Cabot and St Francis of Assisi in Little Italy.
The northwest
The northwest holds five: Our Lady of Sorrows and St Raphael in Springdale, St Joseph in Tontitown, St Thomas Aquinas in Fayetteville and St Bernard in Bella Vista.
The Arkansas River valley
The Arkansas River valley holds four: Subiaco Abbey, St Scholastica Monastery in Fort Smith, Sacred Heart of Mary in Barling and St Leo in Russellville.
Jonesboro
Jonesboro holds two: St John Newman University Parish and Blessed Sacrament.
Meeting places worth knowing
The cathedral of the Diocese of Little Rock, on the National Register of Historic Places, with Sunday Masses at half past eight, five past twelve and half past five.
617 South Louisiana StreetLittle Rock
AR 72201
A young adult group for ages eighteen to forty, with trivia nights, dinners, Bible study and prayer hikes.
617 South Louisiana StreetLittle Rock
AR 72201
A shrine attended from St Edward, with a Sunday Mass in English at nine and two in Spanish.
801 Sherman StreetLittle Rock
AR 72202
A parish with a Sunday Mass in English at half past eight and in Vietnamese at ten.
211 West 19th StreetNorth Little Rock
AR 72114
A parish with a Sunday Mass at half past ten and, on the third Sunday, a Mass in Igbo; the diocese asks you to call and confirm.
1400 East 2nd StreetNorth Little Rock
AR 72114
A parish of the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter since 2017, where every Mass is in Latin, with a sung Mass on Sunday at half past ten.
602 East Main StreetCabot
AR 72023
The parish of Little Italy, established in 1922, which has hosted the grape harvest festival since 1927, with Sunday Mass at ten.
33223 Highway 300Roland
AR 72135
A parish served by the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter, where all Masses are in the Extraordinary Form, with a high Mass on Sunday at ten and Adoration on Thursdays.
1600 West Graham RoadSpringdale
AR 72762
The parish of Tontitown, established in the late 1800s by Italian settlers, whose Grape Festival it calls a tradition, with Sunday Mass at nine.
154 East Henri de Tonti BoulevardTontitown
AR 72762
The parish at the University of Arkansas, with Sunday Masses at ten and five and a Mass at eight in the evening during the semester.
603 North Leverett AvenueFayetteville
AR 72701
A parish with one Sunday Mass in English and five in Spanish, and perpetual Adoration.
1386 South West End StreetSpringdale
AR 72764
A parish that hosts a Syro-Malabar Mass in Malayalam on the first Sunday of the month and a Tamil Mass on the fourth Saturday; call to confirm.
1 Saint Bernard LaneBella Vista
AR 72715
A Benedictine monastery founded by monks who arrived in 1878, which welcomes day visitors to Mass and the Liturgy of the Hours, with Sunday Mass at a quarter to eleven; call ahead.
405 North Subiaco AvenueSubiaco
AR 72865
A community of Benedictine sisters who came in 1878, where guests may pray the Hours and celebrate Mass with them, on Sunday at a quarter past nine.
1315 South Albert Pike AvenueFort Smith
AR 72903
A parish near Fort Smith with Sunday Masses in Vietnamese at eight and noon and in English at ten.
1301 Frank StreetBarling
AR 72923
The parish at Arkansas Tech, with Sunday Masses at half past eleven and seven in the evening.
509 West L StreetRussellville
AR 72801
A personal parish for the students, faculty and staff of Arkansas State University, with Sunday Masses at eleven and five.
2800 East Johnson AvenueJonesboro
AR 72401
A parish with Sunday Masses in English and Spanish, a Filipino Mass on the third Sunday and a Vietnamese vigil on the first Saturday.
1101 East Highland DriveJonesboro
AR 72401
Some places appear without a card. St Mary in North Little Rock has a Mass interpreted in American Sign Language and a Deaf Mass once a month. Our Lady of the Ozarks Shrine in Winslow, and a parish in a hamlet named Slovak, could not be matched to a building.
Distances that decide everything
A diagram, not a map. Driving times, as in the text.
In Little Rock, the cathedral, the shrine and the two North Little Rock parishes are within five minutes of each other; Cabot is about half an hour away and Little Italy under an hour. In the northwest, Springdale, Tontitown and Fayetteville are within twenty minutes of each other, and Bella Vista under an hour.
Subiaco and Jonesboro are each around two hours from Little Rock, and Fort Smith a little over an hour from Tontitown. The two Italian villages, Tontitown and Little Italy, are more than three hours apart.
So Catholic Arkansas is a handful of towns, each with its own heart. Inside each, two people can meet on a weeknight; between Little Rock and the Ozarks, it is a Saturday.
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The Catholic year in Arkansas
The Tontitown Grape Festival
At St Joseph's, the parish's tradition since the harvest of 1898.
Spaghetti dinner in Little Italy
At St Francis of Assisi, after the parish Mass.
A Mass in Igbo
St Augustine in North Little Rock, at two.
The Syro-Malabar Mass in Bella Vista
In Malayalam, at St Bernard, at seven.
Mass with the monks of Subiaco
At the abbey church; call before you come.
Adoration in Springdale
Our Lady of Sorrows, from morning until evening.
Dating as a practising Catholic in Arkansas
A Latin Mass in Cabot, a Mass in Igbo in North Little Rock, Vespers with the sisters in Fort Smith and a grape harvest in Tontitown: Catholics in Arkansas pray in many ways. cana.love asks which is yours.
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Meeting safely
- Make the first meeting a daytime one in a public place, with a time to leave agreed: coffee after Mass, a café in the River Market in Little Rock or on the square in Fayetteville. Tell a friend where you will be and, if the drive home is I-40 or I-49 after dark, when to expect you. Your address can wait.
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Common questions
What are the grape-harvest parishes?
St Joseph in Tontitown, where the harvest was first celebrated with a Mass of thanksgiving in 1898, and St Francis of Assisi in Little Italy, which has hosted the harvest festival since 1927.
Where is the traditional Latin Mass?
St John the Baptist in Cabot and Our Lady of Sorrows in Springdale, both parishes of the Fraternity of St Peter.
Which young adult group names an age?
The Cathedral of St Andrew's group in Little Rock, for ages eighteen to forty.
Can I visit Subiaco Abbey?
Yes: the monks welcome day visitors to Mass and the Liturgy of the Hours, and ask you to call ahead.
Are there Masses in other languages?
Vietnamese, Spanish, Igbo, Malayalam, Tamil and Filipino, in parishes from North Little Rock to Bella Vista, Barling and Jonesboro.
Can I use cana.love anywhere in Arkansas?
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Next steps
In Little Rock, go to the cathedral's young adults; in the northwest, to the Latin Mass in Springdale or a Sunday in Tontitown; in the valley, to Mass at Subiaco. And to see how someone practises before you meet, open a free cana.love profile and read theirs.
Reviewed on September 24, 2026.