7983 SE 15th
St. Agatha is located in Sellwood. According to the church's website, the current building dates from 1920 and is in the Early Gothic Style. The interior walls look like painted, irregularly shaped cinder blocks. According to the website, however, the church is built with "hollow brick and native tufa stone quarried on land belonging to the Benedictine fathers at Mt. Angel." The ceiling is made of beautiful dark wood with attractive wooden beams.
Speaking of the Benedictines, the Benedictine fathers ran St. Agatha for 80 years. In 2000 the Benedictines turned the church over to the Archdiocese of Portland. And, speaking of Mt. Angel, the current pastor, Nathan Zodrow, OSB, was Abbot at Mt. Angel Seminary from 2001 to 2009.
Apparently, Father Zodrow had been temporarily assigned to St. Agatha the last couple of months. Today, Archbishop John Vlazny presided over Father Zodrow's installation Mass. The St. Agatha parishioners warmly and enthusiastically welcomed Father Zodrow as their pastor for the next six years. This will be Father Zodrow's first time as a parish priest, and as he says in his open letter in the parish bulletin, "I find the 'fit' remarkably good."
The parishioners at the 10:30 am Mass were mostly Caucasian. St. Agatha had a friendly feel.
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