Welcome to Holy Cross Catholic Church!

 ¡Bienvenidos a la Iglesia Santa Cruz!

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Holy Cross Church is eager to be a part of your life and have you as a part of our life. We are committed to growing in the likeness of Jesus Christ, a daily process that requires prayer, sacraments, discipline and a community of individuals striving for the same goal.

La Iglesia Católica Santa Cruz está muy emocionada de ser parte de su vida y de tenerle a usted como parte de nuestra vida. Estamos comprometidos en crecer a semejanza de Jesucristo, un proceso diario que requiere de oraciones, sacramentos, disciplina y de una comunidad de individuo que luchan por el mismo objetivo.

Mass Schedule

Tues - Fri, 8:30am (Rosary, 8am)    Saturday Vigil, English, 5pm
Sunday, English, 9am
Sunday, Spanish, 12pm

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Become a Member

If you would like to become a member of our parish, please call us at 503.289.2834.

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Updates

Mask use in our parish church is optional but recommended. Masks are recommended in order to protect the more vulnerable in our community, like children and those with compromised immunities. If you are sick in any way or even feeling a little “under the weather,” please stay home! Our concern is for your good health and the good health of those in the pews around you. Thank you.

What's Happening

October 2-3: Preparing for this Sunday’s Mass

“In the Time of Pandemic” by Kitty O’Meara And the people stayed home. And they listened, and read books, and rested, and exercised, and made art, and played games, and learned new ways of being, and were still. And they listened more deeply. Some meditated, some prayed, some danced. Some met their shadows. And the […]

October 2 / 2 de octubre: Guardian Angels / Ángeles Guardianes

The Catechism of the Catholic Church states: “From infancy to death, human life is surrounded by the angels’ watchful care and intercession. Beside each believer stands an angel as protector and shepherd leading him to life. Already here on earth the Christian life shares by faith in the blessed company of angels and humans united […]

1 de octubre: Fiesta de Santa Teresa de Lisieux

Santa Teresa de Lisieux (o del Niño Jesús) nació en la ciudad francesa de Alençon en 1873; sus padres ejemplares eran Luis Martin y Acelia María Guerin, ambos santos. Murió en 1897, y en 1925 el Papa Pío XI la canonizó, y la proclamaría después patrona universal de las misiones. La llamó “la estrella de […]

October 1: The Feast of St. Therese of Lisieux

St. Therese of Lisieux was born Marie Therese Martin in Alencon, France in 1873, the youngest of five daughters. Her father, Louis, was a watchmaker and her mother, Zelie, who died of breast cancer when Therese was four, was a lace maker. Marie Therese was brought up in a model Christian home. While still a […]

September 30: Feast of St. Jerome

Today, the Universal Church celebrates the liturgical Feast of St. Jerome, the priest and monk renowned for his extraordinary depth of learning and translations of the Bible into Latin. Besides his contributions as a Church Father and the guiding light he has provided to subsequent Catholic scholarship, St. Jerome is also regarded as a patron […]

30 de septiembre: Fiesta de San Jerónimo

Hoy, toda la Iglesia celebra la Fiesta de San Jerónimo. Dicen que este santo ha sido el hombre que en la antigüedad estudió más y mejor la Santa Biblia. Pero durante su juventud en Roma, Jerónimo estudió latín bajo la dirección del más famoso profesor de su tiempo, Donato, el cual hablaba el latín a […]