![]() The chapel in Silverton was combined with Portland and Our Lady of Fatima expanded to two Masses every Sunday. Heidt became ill, and he passed away in 2006 the chapel came again to the priests of the Society. ![]() The chapel grew through the years both in attendance and building additions/improvements. This continued until the priory was established in Veneta. Heidt made a three-church circuit every Sunday: Silverton, Portland, and Veneta. A small chapel had been outfitted an hour away from Portland on his property in Silverton, OR, and Fr. Pius the Tenth and pastor the Oregon chapels. Eugene Heidt, a diocesan priest, took a sabbatical and left his church in Gervais, OR, to cooperate with the Society of St. In 1988, the same year as the episcopal consecrations by Archbishop Lefevbre, Fr. As there was no church in Portland dedicated to Our Lady of Fatima, the chapel was renamed in her honor. Daniel Couture celebrated the first Mass in the new building in September of 1986. In 1986, a property used by a Korean Assembly of God group came on the real estate market, and parishioners pooled their money to place a down payment. Laisney and Ranger also taking pastoral duty. Through continued newspaper ads and a newsletter, a core of faithful Catholics shouldered the work of organizing hotel meeting rooms and all the preparations for a monthly Mass the “hotel years” lasted for five years, with Frs. Newspaper ads preceded the first Mass and a group of 100 crowded into a meeting room at the Airport Hilton. After three months and several letter exchanges, the first Mass for our new chapel was celebrated on November 30, 1981, the feast of St. While there, they met a priest, who had been making the Northwest circuit of Post Falls and Edmonds, WA. Mary’s, KS, to find a priest to baptize her grandson, and participate in a pilgrimage for the feast of the Assumption. Mary Kangas, a local radio talk show host and traditional Catholic, had heard about the Society and their foundation of a school in the US, and she and her family traveled to St. ![]() The desire to have a grandson baptized in the traditional form proved to be the catalyst for the Society of St.
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