Driving Directions

From Fairfax and Points West
Take I-66 East to exit 71 Fairfax Dr./Glebe Rd. Left at 2nd light onto Glebe Rd. Right at 2nd light onto Washington Blvd. Follow 0.8 miles. After 4th light at Kirkwood Dr., continue straight up hill and take right into parking lot.

From Rosslyn
Take Wilson Blvd. west to Clarendon area. Go 2 blocks past the Clarendon Metro. Bear right onto Washington Blvd. at the 5-way intersection by the Silver Diner. Take left into parking lot immediately after Petco.

From Washington, DC
Take I-66 West to exit for Glebe Rd. (VA Route 120). Left at top of exit ramp onto Glebe Rd. Cross over I-66 and see Comfort Inn on your left. Left at lights onto Washington Blvd. Follow 0.8 miles. After 4th light at Kirkwood Dr., continue straight up hill and take right into parking lot.

From South Arlington, Bailey's Crossroads
From Columbia Pike, turn onto North Carlin Springs Rd. As it dead-ends at the Ballston Mall Parking Garage, take left onto Glebe Rd. Continue on Glebe Rd. past Wilson Blvd. and Fairfax Dr. Take right onto Washington Blvd. Follow 0.8 miles. After 4th light at Kirkwood Dr., continue straight up hill and take right into parking lot.

From Maryland
Capital Beltway (I-495) West toward Northern Virginia. Cross American Legion Bridge into Virginia. Left exit 45B to I-66 East. Take Exit 71 (Fairfax Dr./Glebe Rd.). Left at 2nd light onto Glebe Rd. Right at 2nd light onto Washington Blvd. Follow 0.8 miles. After 4th light at Kirkwood Dr., continue straight up hill and take right into parking lot.

Who was St Charles?

St. Charles Borromeo (1538-1584)

Charles Borromeo was born to a wealthy, noble family, the third of six children, son of Count Giberto II Borromeo and Margherita de' Medici. He was the nephew of Pope Pius IV. Saint Charles spent his life and fortune in the service of the people of his diocese. He directed and fervently enforced the decrees of the Council of Trent, fought tirelessly for peace in the wake of the storm caused by Martin Luther, founded schools for the poor, seminaries for clerics, hospitals for the sick, conducted synods, instituted children's Sunday school, did great public and private penance, and worked among the sick and dying, leading his people by example.

Quotes by Saint Charles Borromeo:

If we wish to make any progress in the service of God we must begin every day of our life with new eagerness. We must keep ourselves in the presence of God as much as possible and have no other view or end in all our actions but the divine honor.

I admit that we are all weak, but if we want help, the Lord God has given us the means to find it easily. Would you like me to teach you how to grow from virtue to virtue and how, if you are already recollected at prayer, you can be even more attentive next time, and so give God more pleasing worship? Listen, and I will tell you. If a tiny spark of God's love already burns within you, do not expose it to the wind, for it may get blown out. Keep the stove tightly shut so that it will not lose its heat and grow cold. In other words, avoid distractions as well as you can. Stay quiet with God. Do not spend your time in useless chatter.

If teaching and preaching is your job, then study diligently and apply yourself to whatever is necessary for doing the job well. Be sure that you first preach by the way you live. If you do not, people will notice that you say one thing, but live otherwise, and your words will bring only cynical laughter and a derisive shake of the head.

We must meditate before, during and after everything we do. The prophet says: "I will pray, and then I will understand."

This is the way we can easily overcome the countless difficulties we have to face day after day, which, after all, are part of our work. In meditation we find the strength to bring Christ to birth in ourselves and in other men.