By Stephen Floyd Plans by Father Bernard Youth Center (FBYC) in Mount Angel to purchase the property currently housing St. Joseph’s Shelter have been terminated after negotiations fell through. While the youth center hoped to finalize terms with owner Catholic Community Services (CCS) in December, parties remained far apart into the new year on sale price and use of the […]
By Stephen Floyd The impending sale of Queen of Angels Monastery in Mount Angel will mean larger spaces for local Catholic ministries, although details of the transitions must still be hammered out. Catholic Community Services (CCS) is expected to finalize its purchase of the monastery this month and plans to move its transitional housing program, St. Joseph’s Shelter, into the […]
Supporters of Colegio Cesar Chavez will be hosting a 50th anniversary celebration on Aug. 26 in Mount Angel. The public is welcome to attend. Hosted by PODER, a Woodburn-based nonprofit focused on supporting the Latinx community, the event will celebrate the school’s pivotal role as the first accredited, independent four-year Chicano/Latino college in the U.S. Colegio Cesar Chavez was founded […]
By Stephen Floyd After 134 years, the Benedictine Sisters of Mount Angel will be leaving the Queen of Angels Monastery, with plans to repurpose part of the facility as transitional housing for families in need. Membership within the monastic community has been in decline, as elsewhere in the U.S., with the number of religious sisters nationally dropping from 161,000 in […]
By Steve Ritchie The Fr. Bernard Youth Center in Mount Angel has reached two major milestones already in 2016: 10 years of hosting youth and young adult retreats and serving a total of 20,000 young people. FBYC Director Don Robison said the center’s decade-long journey to provide a place for retreats, prayer, and personal and spiritual growth has been, at […]
The Fr. Bernard Youth Center in Mount Angel, which celebrated its fifth anniversary last month, is a great example of a vision becoming reality.
By Brenna Wiegand Fr. Bernard Youth Center 980 S. Main St.; P.O. Box 790 Mount Angel, OR 97362 503-845-4097; www.fbyc.info Ways to Support FBYC Encourage group bookings Volunteer time and skills Join board of directors Donate funds Sponsor an event They came; they saw; they got to work. As a summer service project and retreat, 50 high school students from […]
May 24 began like many days for Bishop Kenneth Steiner, an avid golfer, but it soon became a day for the record books.
Empathy, compassion, respect – three little words with a huge impact.
Sixty-seven middle school students at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Milwaukie, Ore., learned all about the importance of embracing them at a recent retreat at the Father Bernard Youth Center in Mount Angel.
