The Feast of St. Augustine of Hippo, 28th August [I Am Roman Catholic]

@samueltyler2 Yes. I [i]try[/i] to read a chapter a day, minimum, and have done for a long while (today, CC 9-10 of St John's Gospel, which contains one of my favourite passages "My sheep listen to my voice..." (10.27-28)).

Inevitably I don't always manage it by any means.

@Persephonee is your family very religious?.

@samueltyler2 There is a cultural Easter-and-Christmas Catholicism yes, and sometimes I drag people out at other times. (Plus, my parents live in a small English village, where many elements of village life are arranged around or with the local [Anglican] church, though not really in a religious way so much as a social one!). I'm probably the only one of us who takes the faith seriously though (if that's not immodest to say...)

@Persephonee I am not anti-religion, I just heard that people your age tend not to follow organized religion. They are spiritual, but do not join regular religious organizations. You may be the exception.

@samueltyler2 I think that's both true and not true. I could say that anecdotally that my church in London (the one I actually regularly attend and have done - until the plague - for the last few years), has a lot of young people in it...but a lot of them are students (both home and international), so that may figure into it a lot. (It's also a very large, very beautiful, and as far as churches are 'famous', quite a famous Catholic church in London, so that also plays a part...an ordinary little parish church would not see the same attendance).

Yes as a whole people my age seem to go to church (or equivalent place of worship) less, in the West. But they do seem to be concentrated in those that actually speak decently to our souls...looking merely at Christianity - at particularly charismatic evangelical churches on the one hand, and very very traditional (think Latin Mass, Gregorian chant, oodles of acolytes, enough incense to fill St Peter's Basilica) Catholic churches [which is my end of the candle so to speak].

Where attendance seems to have fallen off a cliff is the middle-of-the-road, never-offend-everybody, mildly-goodnatured-liberal parishes - many other Catholic churches that tend only to celebrate the more modern liturgy; many Anglican, methodist, other sorts of reformed/protestant churches, etc :/

@Persephonee the same seems to be true across the entire religion spectrum, Cristianity, Hindu, Muslim and Judaism, I am not familiar with Budhism and know no one practicing that. I have heard from clergypeople(is that pc?) That their congregation sizes have plummeted.

@samueltyler2 With some exceptions, there's been a plummet, yes :(

@Persephonee congregations are just holding on financially.