Welcome!

This is a special and graced time for you as you prepare to celebrate your marriage. The Church joins with you during this time and asks God's blessings on your shared life and love.

Your wedding ceremony is a significant event celebrating the beginning of your married life together. We ask that you contact the Pastoral Associate at the Parish Center at least 6 months in advance to allow time for preparations.

Ascension Church Parish Center
503-256-3897

Excerpt from
Follow the Way of Love:
A Pastoral Message of the U. S. Catholic Bishops to Families

"You Are the Church in Your Home.
Baptism brings all Christians into union with God. Your family life is sacred because family relationships confirm and deepen this union and allow the Lord to work through you. The profound and the ordinary moments of daily life (mealtimes, workdays, vacations, expressions of love and intimacy, household chores, caring for a sick child or elderly parent, and even conflicts over things like how to celebrate holidays, discipline children or spend money) all are the threads from which you can weave a pattern of holiness.

Jesus promised to be where two or three are gathered in his name (Mt. 18:20). We give the name "church" to the people whom the Lord gathers, who strive to follow his way of love and through whose lives his saving presence is made known.

A family is our first community and most basic way in which the Lord gathers us, forms us and acts in the world. The early church expressed this truth by calling the Christian family a "domestic church" or "church of the home"."