Catholic dating in Oregon
Catholic dating in Oregon: the Grotto, Mount Angel Abbey, young adults in Portland and Bend, the Latin Mass in two rites, and Newman centres in two cities.
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Short answer
The Grotto in Portland began with a promise made for a mother. As its own history tells it, a boy in Kitchener, Ontario, learned that his mother lay near death after giving birth to a daughter. He ran to the parish church and prayed to the Virgin Mary, promising that if she were spared he would one day undertake a great work for the Church. Both his mother and his baby sister survived.
The boy became Father Ambrose Mayer of the Servite order. In Portland he found land that had once been a railroad quarry beneath a basalt cliff, and in 1924 he founded there the National Sanctuary of Our Sorrowful Mother. Today couples marry at the Grotto on Saturday afternoons, outdoors on its plaza from June to September.
Twenty places are listed below, each with an address and a link to its own page or its diocese's: the Grotto and the cathedral, three parishes with the Latin Mass, young adult groups that name their ages, a Maronite church, Mount Angel Abbey on its hill, the Newman centres of Oregon State and the University of Oregon, and parishes across the Cascades. They are not every parish; they are the places whose pages we could read.
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Catholics in Oregon
Oregon has two dioceses: the Archdiocese of Portland in Oregon, west of the Cascades, and the Diocese of Baker, which covers the east. Both dioceses' websites refused automated visitors, so every place below comes from its own parish, abbey or campus page.
Portland keeps the Latin Mass in more than one form. At Holy Rosary, the Dominican friars celebrate their Latin Masses in the Dominican Rite; St Stephen and St Birgitta offer the traditional Latin Mass of the 1962 Missal, St Stephen for nearly all its Masses. Sacred Heart in Medford has a Latin Mass on Sunday afternoons.
From the Grotto's, the abbey's and the parishes' own pages, opened 24 September 2026
Young adult groups name their own ages, and no two are the same: eighteen to thirty-nine at the cathedral, twenty-two to thirty-five for ARK at St Michael, eighteen to thirty at Forest Grove, eighteen to thirty-two in Bend, with a separate group there for people in their thirties.
Several parishes pray in other languages. At the Grotto, the two o'clock Sunday Mass turns by the week through Filipino, Spanish and Indonesian; St Stanislaus has Masses in Polish and, once a month, in Croatian; Our Lady of La Vang in Happy Valley is a Vietnamese parish; and Spanish Masses run from Keizer to Bend and Baker City.
Where the community gathers
The twenty places fall into four parts of the state: Portland, the north Willamette Valley, Corvallis, Eugene and Medford, and the east.
Portland
Portland holds ten: the Grotto, St Mary's Cathedral, Holy Rosary, St Stephen, St Birgitta, St Michael the Archangel, the University of Portland's chapel, St Stanislaus, Our Lady of La Vang and St Sharbel.
The north Willamette Valley
The north Willamette Valley holds three: Mount Angel Abbey, St Anthony in Forest Grove and St Edward in Keizer.
Corvallis, Eugene and Medford
Corvallis, Eugene and Medford hold four: the Newman Center at Oregon State, St Mary in Corvallis, the St Thomas More Newman Center at the University of Oregon and Sacred Heart in Medford.
The east
The east holds three: St Francis de Sales Cathedral in Baker City, St Francis of Assisi in Bend and Our Lady of the Valley in La Grande.
Meeting places worth knowing
A sanctuary of the Servite friars founded in 1924, with Mass every day at noon, three Sunday Masses from eight to noon and a two o'clock Mass in Filipino, Spanish or Indonesian by the week of the month.
8840 NE Skidmore StreetPortland
OR 97220
The mother church of the archdiocese, opened in 1926, where a young adult ministry for ages eighteen to thirty-nine meets on the third Wednesday of the month.
1716 NW Davis StreetPortland
OR 97209
A Dominican church whose Latin Masses, on Sunday at eleven and on weekday mornings, follow the Dominican Rite.
375 NE Clackamas StreetPortland
OR 97232
A parish of the archdiocese where all but the Saturday evening Mass follow the 1962 Missal, with a sung Latin Mass on Sunday at half past ten and sung Vespers in the afternoon.
1112 SE 41st AvenuePortland
OR 97214
A parish with a traditional Latin Mass on Sunday at half past nine, low or high by the week, and a schola of its own.
11820 NW St Helens RoadPortland
OR 97231
A downtown parish founded in 1897 for Portland's Italians, home to the Portland State Newman Center and to ARK, a young adult community for ages twenty-two to thirty-five, with a Mass on Sunday at seven and a social after.
424 SW Mill StreetPortland
OR 97201
The Holy Cross university's chapel, dedicated in 1986, with Sunday Masses at half past ten and a quarter past four in term, and Catholic weddings for students and alumni.
5000 North Willamette BoulevardPortland
OR 97203
A parish founded by Polish immigrants and consecrated in 1908, with a Polish Mass on Sunday at eleven and a Croatian Mass on the first Sunday of the month.
3916 North Interstate AvenuePortland
OR 97227
A Vietnamese Catholic parish that keeps the Vietnamese language and culture alive, with several Sunday Masses and a school for catechism in Vietnamese.
11731 SE Stevens RoadHappy Valley
OR 97086
A Maronite parish in communion with Rome, whose liturgy uses Aramaic, with Mass on Sunday at eleven; its website has not been updated recently, so confirm with the parish.
1804 SE 16th AvenuePortland
OR 97214
A Benedictine community founded in 1882 from Engelberg in Switzerland, on a hilltop above the town, where guests are welcome at the Hours and Mass is at eight, nine on Sundays.
1 Abbey DriveSaint Benedict
OR 97373
A parish with a Sunday Mass in Spanish at noon and a young adult group it lists for ages eighteen to thirty.
1660 Elm StreetForest Grove
OR 97116
A parish beside Salem with a Sunday family Mass and a Sunday Mass in Spanish at half past twelve.
5303 River Road NorthKeizer
OR 97303
The Catholic campus ministry at Oregon State, with a student Mass on Sunday evening at St Mary's and Masses in its own chapel during the week.
2127 NW Monroe AvenueCorvallis
OR 97330
A Corvallis parish with a Sunday Mass in Spanish and the Oregon State student Mass at seven in the evening during the academic year.
501 NW 25th StreetCorvallis
OR 97330
The Catholic centre at the University of Oregon, begun as a Newman Club in 1915, with a student Mass on Sunday evening followed by food downstairs.
1850 Emerald StreetEugene
OR 97403
A parish with Masses in English and Spanish, a Latin Mass on Sunday at half past three, and the Frassati Fellowship for young adults.
517 West 10th StreetMedford
OR 97501
The cathedral of the Diocese of Baker, with a Sunday Mass at nine and a Spanish Mass on Saturday mornings.
2235 1st StreetBaker City
OR 97814
A parish with a Sunday Mass in Spanish, a monthly young adult gathering for ages eighteen to thirty-two and a group for people in their thirties.
2450 NE 27th StreetBend
OR 97701
A parish with a Sunday Mass at ten and a group for college students and young adults that meets weekly in the school year over a home-cooked meal.
1002 L AvenueLa Grande
OR 97850
Some places appear without a card. The Trappist Abbey of Our Lady of Guadalupe, in the hills near Carlton, has a website that refused automated visitors, so we could not read its Mass times. North Portland has a Byzantine Catholic parish of the Ruthenian eparchy whose times we could not find.
Distances that decide everything
A diagram, not a map. Driving times, as in the text.
Inside Portland, the places on this page are close: the Grotto is under twenty minutes from the cathedral, and Our Lady of La Vang and the University of Portland are within half an hour of the Grotto. Mount Angel is about an hour south of the city.
Corvallis is about an hour and a half from Portland and Eugene about two hours. Bend, over the Cascades, is more than three hours from Portland, and Baker City and Medford more than four.
So Catholic Oregon is a valley with a city at its head, and a much larger east. Inside Portland, two people can meet after work; from Portland to Bend or Baker City, it is a weekend.
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The Catholic year in Oregon
Young adults at the cathedral
Ages eighteen to thirty-nine, at St Mary's.
ARK at St Michael
A young adult Mass downtown, and a social after it.
An Indonesian Mass at the Grotto
At two in the afternoon, a few times a year.
Weddings on the plaza
Outdoors at the Grotto, from June to September.
Thirties group in Bend
In the parish library at St Francis of Assisi.
Student Mass in Eugene
At the Newman Center, with food and fellowship after.
Dating as a practising Catholic in Oregon
A Dominican Latin Mass at Holy Rosary, the Hours at Mount Angel, a Polish Mass on Interstate Avenue and an Indonesian Mass at the Grotto: Catholics in Oregon pray in many ways. cana.love asks which is yours.
Mass, fasting and Scripture, each asked
How often you go to Mass is asked on a five-point scale, from every Sunday to seldom. Fasting, Scripture and your reasons for joining are separate questions, and each answer can be shown or kept private.
Parish and meaning, in your own words
Parish and meaning are your own words, not a menu choice; a Servite sanctuary in Portland and a Benedictine hilltop in the valley would never fit one list.
Spanish is one of five languages
The site works in English, Spanish, Portuguese, German and Russian.
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Profiles and photos are held back until reviewed, first by software and then, if needed, by a member of staff. Members may not ask one another for money, and fraud closes an account permanently, without warning. There is nothing to pay, nothing renews, and sign-in uses a one-time link or code by email instead of a password.
What cana.love is and is not
cana.love is not a Catholic-only platform.
Orthodox Christians, Protestants and those still searching are welcome as well, when they hope for the same kind of marriage, and your settings control who sees you. Oregon's Catholic parishes pray in Spanish, Vietnamese, Polish, Filipino and Indonesian as well as English, and a site that closed its door would be narrower than they are. What it promises you can check: every profile shows faith, practice and intentions, to be read first. Cana SpA, a company registered in Chile, operates it; see the About page.
Meeting safely
- Keep the first meeting to daylight and a public place, with a time agreed to leave: coffee after Mass, a café on Alberta Street in Portland or near the campus in Eugene. Tell a friend where you are going and, for I-5 or the pass over the Cascades after dark, when you will be back. Your address can wait.
- About money, one rule: until you meet in person, send nothing, lend nothing and pay for no one's travel, whatever you are told. One report is enough for us to act.
The community guidelines explain what happens after a report and how to appeal.
Common questions
What is the Grotto?
A sanctuary in Northeast Portland founded in 1924 by Father Ambrose Mayer, a Servite who, as a boy, promised a great work for the Church if his mother survived childbirth; it has daily Mass and weddings on Saturdays.
Where is the Latin Mass?
St Stephen and St Birgitta, with the 1962 Missal; Holy Rosary, in the Dominican Rite; and Sacred Heart in Medford on Sunday afternoons.
Which young adult groups name an age?
The cathedral, eighteen to thirty-nine; ARK at St Michael, twenty-two to thirty-five; Forest Grove, eighteen to thirty; Bend, eighteen to thirty-two, with a thirties group.
Can I visit Mount Angel Abbey?
Yes: the monks welcome guests to pray the Hours with them in the abbey church, and the church is open during the day.
Are there Masses in other languages?
Filipino, Spanish and Indonesian at the Grotto; Polish and Croatian at St Stanislaus; Vietnamese at Our Lady of La Vang; Spanish in many parishes.
Can I use cana.love anywhere in Oregon?
Yes, from eighteen, in a browser, with nothing to install.
Next steps
In Portland, go to ARK on a Sunday evening or to the cathedral's young adults on a third Wednesday; in Eugene or Corvallis, try the student Mass. And to find out how someone practises before you meet, open a free cana.love profile and read theirs.
Reviewed on September 24, 2026.