Name of Church St. Mary’s Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception
Address 1716 NW Davis Street, Portland, Oregon 97209
Phone number (503) 228-4397
Website www.maryscathedral.com
Mass Schedule Saturday vigil, 5:30 p.m. Sundays, 7:30 a.m., 9 a.m., 11 a.m., 5:30 p.m. Daily, 7:30 a.m. & 5:30 p.m.
Confessions Saturdays, 4 – 5:15 p.m. or by appointment.
Names of priests Monsignor Patrick Brennan, pastor. (Read Monsignor Brennan’s homilies on the parish website.) Retiring Bishop John Vlazny also says Masses there. Effective April 2, Bishop Alex Sample will become the archdiocese’s ordinary, to the good cheer of orthodox Catholics. Bishop Sample has distinguished himself nationwide as one of the country’s most thoughtful, orthodox bishops, with a love of liturgy and sincere desire to reform Catholic catechesis. St. Mary’s will be Bishop Sample’s cathedral.
Special activities Holy hour and benediction, 1st Thursdays at 6 p.m.; group which visits the homebound
Music Depends on the Mass. The 9 a.m. has a choir, the 5:30 p.m. has a contemporary ensemble, and the other Masses have congregational singing.
School Yes, K-8.
Parking Park in the parish lot.
Cry room No, but you can take noisy children into the vestibule.
Additional observations St. Mary’s Cathedral is the seat of the Archdiocese of Portland. It was built in 1926, and features many beautiful works of art (take a tour of the art on the parish website) and a large pipe organ in the back. It’s located in an older neighborhood in Portland; nearby there are a number of other houses of worship, including an Episcopalian cathedral, Lutheran church and Jewish temple.
I have not been to any of these wonderful church’s…I immensely enjoyed attending mass at the Catholic basilica in the nation’s capital. The Basilica of the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception was awe-inspiring…after going to the Vatican and Saint Peter’s Basilica…it is the second most/third most edifying I have visited. I consider myself very grateful and fortunate to have been to the basilica in Mexico City Our lady of Guadalupe…and seen the tilma of Saint Juan Diego…praise be Jesus Christ
Please Bishop Sample, bring the Traditional Latin Mass to your new cathedral and to all of Portland for the sake of saving souls from the Novus Ordo man-made worship service.
Hi Janek.
Your post seems to imply that, if Novus Ordo was a man-made worship service, the Traditional Tridentine Latin Mass was a God-made worship service. This would imply that God waited until the year 1570 to write it.
Perhaps, as both masses were derived from Ecumenical Councils, we can deduce that the worship services were both man-made and both inspired by God?
All worship services are “man made,” as God gives man the Word, and man responds by serving, and worshipping, the Lord God Almighty.
God does not drop the Roman Missal down from heaven any more than He dropped golden tablets down for Joseph Smith to grab and invent Mormonism.
The first Mass was all Jews, and probably in Aramaic, or whatever they spoke in that Upper Room.
Later, in Greek, and later still in Latin, as the Church grew. One of the earliest Catholic documents which describes the Mass says, “On the day named after the sun, all who live in city or countryside assemble. The memoirs of the apostles or the writings of the prophets are read for as long as time allows. When the reader is finished, the presider addresses us and exhorts us to imitate the splendid things we have heard. Then we all stand and pray. As we said earlier, when we have finished praying, bread, wine and water are brought up. The presider then prays and gives thanks according to his ability, and the people give their assent with an ‘Amen.’ Next, the gifts over which the thanksgiving has been spoken are distributed, and everyone shares in them, while they are also sent via the deacons to those who are absent.” (Saint Justin Martyr, 2nd century A.D.)
My only problem with his article is that it infers that Archbishop Vlazny was not an orthodox bishop. Archbishop Vlazny not only preached orthodoxy but he helped clean up the mess at the seminary at Mount Angel. While Vlazny was not perfect, he was good for the diocese.
Drive 500 miles to go to Mass? Are things that bad in California?
YUP!
Actually, yup with some exceptions, thank God!