Catholic dating in Texas
Catholic dating in Texas: young adult groups in English and Spanish, Latin Mass parishes, missions and campus ministries from Houston to El Paso.
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Short answer
In Texas the Church runs its young adult ministry twice: once in English and once in Spanish, and the Spanish side has its own pages, its own groups and its own age range. The Diocese of Dallas serves young adults of eighteen to thirty-five and tells them to look on their parish websites; its Pastoral Juvenil Hispana names fifteen Spanish-speaking communities one by one. In Austin the Spanish network goes further and says plainly whom it serves: jóvenes solteros, single young people between eighteen and thirty-five.
The other thing Texas has is Spanish missions that are still parishes. The National Park Service says the San Antonio mission churches are active parishes, and the Diocese of El Paso dates the parish at Ysleta to 1682.
Twenty-one places are listed below with an address and an official link, from Houston to El Paso. They are not every parish in the state; they are places whose own pages we could read, most of them saying who comes and when.
You are on cana.love, a free site for people who mean to marry. It is not a Catholic-only site, and a section below explains what that means.
Catholics in Texas
Texas is divided into many dioceses, and they publish very different amounts. Dallas is the easiest to follow: an English page for young adults, a separate Spanish page with its list of communities, and a young adult ministry called The 635. Austin runs two sites of its own: Central Texas Catholic for young adults of twenty-three to thirty-nine, region by region, and Pastoral Juvenil Hispana for single young adults of eighteen to thirty-five, with groups from Marble Falls to Round Rock.
El Paso's diocese defines young adulthood as eighteen to forty and keeps a page for Catholic campus ministry at the University of Texas at El Paso. Lubbock lists its university parish at Texas Tech. Laredo's young adult page gives a mission statement but no groups.
From the dioceses', the parishes' and the National Park Service's own pages, opened 24 September 2026
Several of the largest dioceses could not be read at all. Galveston-Houston, San Antonio, Austin's own diocesan site, Fort Worth, Brownsville and Corpus Christi all answered us with a bot check, so their young adult pages are not described here. Where a parish in those dioceses has a site that opened, the parish is on this page.
Where the community gathers
The twenty-one places fall into six parts of the state: Houston; Dallas and Fort Worth; Austin and College Station; San Antonio; the Rio Grande Valley; and the west, from El Paso to Lubbock.
Houston
Houston holds three. Rice University's Catholic Student Center has a student Mass on Sunday evenings followed by supper, the Fraternity of St Peter keeps Regina Caeli in the north-west of the city, and the Church of the Annunciation downtown has a Latin Mass every Sunday. An unofficial list of Houston young adult groups names parish groups across the city, among them St Anne, St Theresa and Holy Rosary; the archdiocese's own pages were closed to us, so they have no cards.
Dallas and Fort Worth
Dallas and Fort Worth hold six. The Diocese of Dallas publishes its English and Spanish young adult ministries; the cathedral of Our Lady of Guadalupe downtown has most of its Sunday Masses in Spanish; Mater Dei in Irving is a Latin Mass parish with a group for ages eighteen to twenty-nine. In Fort Worth, St Benedict belongs to the Fraternity of St Peter and St Patrick is the cathedral; a Melkite community meets in Watauga, north of the city.
Austin and College Station
Austin and College Station hold three: the young adults of St Mary Cathedral downtown, the monthly Misa de Jóvenes Adultos at Santa Bárbara in east Austin, and St Mary's Catholic Center beside Texas A&M.
San Antonio
San Antonio holds three. The Basilica of the Little Flower has young adult groups in English and in Spanish; Mission San José is a working parish inside a national park; and Our Lady of the Atonement, a parish of the Ordinariate, has a group for ages eighteen to twenty-nine.
The Rio Grande Valley
The Rio Grande Valley holds two: the Basilica of Our Lady of San Juan del Valle, and St Jude Thaddeus in Pharr, where the Oratorians say a sung Latin Mass with a sermon in Spanish.
The west
The west holds four. In El Paso, the Fraternity of St Peter at Immaculate Conception, the Ysleta Mission and the Catholic campus ministry at UTEP; in Lubbock, St Elizabeth, the university parish for Texas Tech.
Meeting places worth knowing
The Catholic center at Rice University, with a student Mass at half past five on Sunday followed by supper open to all students, and Adoration on Wednesday evenings.
1703 Bolsover StreetHouston
TX 77005
A parish of the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter where, according to the Latin Mass Directory, every Mass is in the traditional form.
8121 Breen DriveHouston
TX 77064
Founded in 1869, with a Latin Mass at eleven every Sunday and solemn chanted Vespers on the second Sunday of the month; the parish calls itself the oldest church in continuous use of any faith in Houston.
1618 Texas AvenueHouston
TX 77003
Both ministries give the age as eighteen to thirty-five; the Spanish one lists fifteen communities by name and parish.
3725 Blackburn StreetDallas
TX 75219
Dedicated as the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in 1902 and renamed for Our Lady of Guadalupe in 1977; on a recent Sunday four of its six Masses were in Spanish.
2215 Ross AvenueDallas
TX 75201
A parish served by the Fraternity of St Peter where every Mass is in the traditional form, with a young adult group for ages eighteen to twenty-nine that meets for Adoration and a talk on the first Thursday of the month.
2030 East State Highway 356Irving
TX 75060
A personal parish of the Fraternity of St Peter since 2015, with four Latin Masses on Sunday, one of them sung.
2920 Azle AvenueFort Worth
TX 76106
The mother church of the Diocese of Fort Worth, established in 1876, with a Sunday Mass in Spanish in the afternoon.
1206 Throckmorton StreetFort Worth
TX 76102
A Melkite community that meets at this address for the Divine Liturgy on Sunday at half past ten, all in English, followed by a shared meal.
6900 Denton HighwayWatauga
TX 76148
A group for young adults of eighteen to thirty and over in Austin, based at the cathedral, that organises itself through a GroupMe chat.
203 East 10th StreetAustin
TX 78701
A monthly Mass for young adults of eighteen to thirty-five from Austin's Pastoral Juvenil Hispana, with the Rosary, a talk and a gathering afterwards.
13713 Farm to Market Road 969Austin
TX 78725
The Catholic parish beside Texas A&M in Northgate, with a Sunday Mass in Spanish at one and a Sunday evening Mass at six.
603 Church AvenueCollege Station
TX 77840
A Carmelite basilica with young adult groups in English and in Spanish, and relics of St Thérèse's parents, Louis and Zélie Martin, a married couple.
1715 North Zarzamora StreetSan Antonio
TX 78201
A mission church inside the San Antonio Missions National Historical Park that is still an active parish.
6701 San Jose DriveSan Antonio
TX 78214
Founded in 1983 and part of the Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter since 2017, with sung Masses on Sunday morning and a young adult group for ages eighteen to twenty-nine.
15415 Red Robin RoadSan Antonio
TX 78255
A minor basilica and national shrine with seven Masses on Sunday, most of them in Spanish.
400 North Virgen de San Juan BoulevardSan Juan
TX 78589
According to the Latin Mass Directory, the Oratorians sing Mass on Sunday at eight with a sermon in English and at three with a sermon in Spanish.
505 South Ironwood StreetPharr
TX 78577
The Fraternity of St Peter's Latin Mass church in El Paso, with Sunday Masses at eight, ten and twelve; the Fraternity also serves Ciudad Juárez and Las Cruces from here.
118 North Campbell StreetEl Paso
TX 79901
A parish the diocese dates to 1682, with Sunday Masses in English and in Spanish.
131 South Zaragoza RoadEl Paso
TX 79907
The San Romero University Ministry Student Center, with Mass on Sunday evening at half past six and lunch after the midweek Masses during term.
2230 North Oregon StreetEl Paso
TX 79902
The university parish for Texas Tech, where the Dominican friars pray the evening Hours before the daily Mass, with a Sunday Mass in Spanish at two.
2316 BroadwayLubbock
TX 79401
Some places are named without a card. Our Lady of the Cedars, a Maronite parish in south-west Houston, publishes its schedule but we could not place its address on the map. The Houston cathedral of the Ordinariate, the University of Texas at Austin's Catholic center and several other campus ministries have sites that were closed to us. Mission San José's own website was closed too, so its Mass times are not given here; the Park Service's page is the link.
Distances that decide everything
A diagram, not a map. Driving times without traffic.
Texas is too big to date across without a plan. Houston to Dallas is about four hours and a quarter; Dallas to Austin about three and a half; Austin to San Antonio an hour and a half. San Antonio to the Rio Grande Valley is over four hours, and San Antonio to El Paso nearly nine. Houston to El Paso is more than twelve hours by road.
Inside each city the distances are ordinary. Dallas to Fort Worth is about forty minutes; in El Paso, the Fraternity's church and the Ysleta Mission are about twenty minutes apart.
So the first honest question is where each of you lives. The cana.love form asks it, together with whether you would move, and both answers are there before the first message.
The Catholic year in Texas
Misa de Jóvenes Adultos in Austin
At Santa Bárbara, at seven in the evening, for ages eighteen to thirty-five.
Mater Dei's young adults
Adoration and a formation talk in Irving.
Student Masses at Rice and UTEP
At half past five at Rice, followed by supper, and at half past six at the UTEP student center.
Theology talks in San Antonio
The young adult group at Our Lady of the Atonement meets for them, with socials once a month.
Chanted Vespers downtown Houston
Solemn Vespers at the Church of the Annunciation at four in the afternoon.
Byzantine Vespers in Watauga
The Melkite community's midweek service at half past six.
Dating as a practising Catholic in Texas
A Spanish network that calls its members single, a Latin Mass parish that asks its young adults to discern their vocation, an Ordinariate parish and a Melkite Liturgy in English: Catholic Texas has many ways of practising. cana.love asks about practice rather than guessing.
Mass, fasting and Scripture, each asked
Its form asks how often you go to Mass, with five answers from every Sunday to rarely, and separately about fasting and about reading Scripture. It asks what you have come to the site for. Each answer has its own setting for who may see it.
Parish and meaning, in your own words
Two questions are left open for your own words: your parish, and what gives your life meaning. A drop-down list would not fit a state where one person's parish is a mission church from the seventeenth century and another's is a student center at Rice.
Spanish is one of five languages
The site can be used in English, Spanish, Portuguese, German and Russian. In Texas, where the young adult ministry itself is split by language, Spanish is not an afterthought.
Checked first, free, no password
A new profile, and every photograph on it, is hidden until it has been checked: by an automatic review first, and by a person for anything that review cannot decide. The site's published rules forbid asking members for money, and fraud ends in permanent removal without warning. There is no fee and no subscription, and no password: you sign in with a one-time link or code sent by email.
What cana.love is and is not
cana.love is not a Catholic-only platform.
Orthodox Christians and Protestants use it too, as do people still finding their way, so long as they want the same kind of marriage; you decide in your settings who sees you. Texas parishes pray in English, Spanish and Arabic, in the Latin and Byzantine rites and in the Anglican tradition of the Ordinariate, and a site that walled Catholics off would be narrower than those parishes are. What cana.love commits to can be checked: faith, practice and intentions are on the form, and the answers are there to read before you reply. It is run by Cana SpA, a company in Chile; the About page has more.
Meeting safely
- Keep the first meeting public and in daylight, with a finishing time agreed ahead: coffee after Mass, a café on the River Walk or in Deep Ellum. Tell a friend where you will be, and if the date means a flight or four hours on I-45, when you expect to be back. Your address can stay private for now.
- On money there is one answer. Until you have met in person, send nothing, lend nothing and pay for no one's ticket, however it is put. A single report is enough for us to look into it.
The community guidelines describe how reports are handled and how to appeal a decision.
Common questions
Are there young adult groups in Spanish?
Yes. The Diocese of Dallas lists fifteen Spanish-speaking communities by name, Austin's Pastoral Juvenil Hispana holds a monthly Mass at Santa Bárbara for ages eighteen to thirty-five, and the Little Flower in San Antonio has a Spanish-speaking group alongside its English one.
Which groups give an age range?
Dallas says eighteen to thirty-five for both its English and Spanish ministries; Mater Dei in Irving and Our Lady of the Atonement in San Antonio say eighteen to twenty-nine; the St Mary Cathedral group in Austin says eighteen to thirty and over.
Where can I find the traditional Latin Mass?
On this page: Regina Caeli and the Annunciation in Houston, Mater Dei in Irving, St Benedict in Fort Worth, St Jude Thaddeus in Pharr and Immaculate Conception in El Paso.
Are the missions still churches?
Yes. The Park Service says the San Antonio mission churches are active parishes, and the Ysleta Mission in El Paso holds Mass in English and Spanish every Sunday.
Why is Houston's archdiocese not linked?
Its site answered us with a bot check, so we did not read it. The Houston places on this page come from the parishes' and Rice University's own sites.
Can I use cana.love anywhere in Texas?
Yes, from eighteen. It is a website, so there is nothing to install.
Next steps
If you speak Spanish, look up the Pastoral Juvenil Hispana of your diocese; in Austin, the last-Friday Mass at Santa Bárbara is the obvious first step. If you are near a university, start at its Catholic center. And if you would rather know where someone stands before the first coffee than after it, make a profile on cana.love: it is free, and it asks what a parish social does not.
Reviewed on September 24, 2026.