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Celebrate the Return of the Christmas Festival of Lights!


This year’s Festival will look a little different due to the ongoing pandemic. We appreciate your patience and understanding as we work to produce a safe but fun Festival.

HAVE YOU PURCHASED YOUR TICKETS YET?

Tickets are sold online in order to control the nightly capacity.

The Grotto’s Christmas Festival of Lights features over two million lights and hosts nightly indoor holiday concerts performed by many of the region’s finest schools, churches, and civic choirs. The Festival reflects the special season of hope that Christmas offers.

Continuous entertainment for all ages is offered in The Grotto’s plaza area, including outdoor caroling, puppet shows, and an assortment of musical guests.

For more information about this year's Festival, including Covid-19 safety protocol, please click here.

Please bring a non-perishable food item for SnowCap.
CALLING ALL VOLUNTEERS

We could not host the Festival without the help of our wonderful volunteers.

We have multiple volunteer opportunities, including some indoors and some outdoors. If you would like to learn more about volunteering at the Festival, please click here.

Thank you!
St. Andrew Dung Lac and Companions

All powerful God, today we remember St. Andrew Dung Lac and Companions, Christians who suffered cruel martyrdom in Vietnam. In time of persecution, you were their strength to witness to their faith in you. They have shown to us, their fellow Christians, how to persevere through the suffering for the Kingdom of God. May their example help us to live our lives worthy of your Kingdom. May we constantly give ourselves to you and bear witness to our faith daily in our struggles. May you be our strength that we do not follow the worldly allurements but may we focus our attention in pursuing the joy of your heavenly realm where you live and reign forever and ever. Amen.

St. Andrew Dung Lac and Companions, Pray for us!

Amen.

Fr. Leo Hambur, OSM
Thanksgiving Day Mass

Thursday, Nov. 26
10 a.m.
The Chapel of Mary

Please join us for this special celebration.

The gardens and shops will be closed on Thanksgiving Day. The grounds will close immediately after the Mass.
Garden Hours: 9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Upper Gardens admission sold until 3:30 p.m.
Gift Shop open until 6:30 p.m.
Smile! Outdoor Mask Mandate Lifted

The State of Oregon has lifted the outdoor mask mandate. You are no longer required to wear a mask while you wander the gardens or visit the Christmas Festival of Lights.

Masks are still require inside the buildings at The Grotto. This includes all Masses.
Daily Mass

12 noon in the Chapel of Mary

Recitation of the Rosary

Daily recitation of the Rosary at The Grotto will take place everyday, one half hour before each Mass. On Friday's, we pray the Rosary of the Seven Sorrows of Mary (Servite Rosary).
Priest's Office Hours

Monday - Saturday
10 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.

The Servite Friars gladly await your request for confession, spiritual guidance and blessing of articles. You may also set up an appointment for a blessing with the relic of St. Peregrine. The office is located at the Visitor Center.
The Grotto Gift Shop: 9 a.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Click on the video and take a moment to relax and experience the serenity of the sanctuary.

Today, enjoy the relaxing sight of the reflection of the waving trees in a Peace Garden pond.

Join Fr. Vidal Martinez, OSM, Rector of The Grotto, for a daily stroll through the garden.

Today, take a walk through the Rose Garden, where a few buds are still blooming and sign of autumn are everywhere. Listen to the bubbling fountain beneath the statue of the Assumption of Mary.

The Servite Friars (from left to right)

Father Vidal Martinez, OSM, Rector: FatherVidal@thegrotto.org
Father Ignatius Kissel, OSM: FatherIgnatius@thegrotto.org
Father Leo Hambur, OSM: FatherLeo@thegrotto.org
Father Edgar Benedi-an, OSM: FatherEdgar@thegrotto.org
Bible Study Livestream

Saturdays: 9:15-10 a.m.

All are welcome to the weekly Bible Study Livestream with Fr. Edgar Benedi-an, OSM. For more information, please click the button below.