Want to learn to become a confident communicator, speak in public and develop leadership skills?
Come check out our Toastmasters anytime.
​Contact:
Virginia Norris or (805) 443·5186

Visit also: Adults

​For those who want to grow deeper in their Catholic faith through discussion, community building, spiritual activities and service projects. For more information contact youth@padreserra.org

Care Packages for the Homeless ~ Session has been rescheduled for November 15!
Our Young Adult Ministry is creating care packages to donate to homeless shelters and to keep in our cars to hand out when we see someone in need. Bring your donations of socks, gloves, beanies, toiletries, nut-free snacks, and water bottles to be included in these packages as we approach winter. Help create these packages, join us!

Young Adult Friendsgiving and Board Game Night ~ November 29
Bring your favorite thanksgiving dish, it's a Potluck.

Q&A Hot Topics Discussion Panel ~ TBA
​Come to participate in straight and honest discussions about faith, love, work and other current experiences.

Come to enjoy dinner, bar, raffle, silent auction and dancing to the 18-piece band Groovin’ Easy Big Band featuring Jazz legend Halcyon Hamel!

Proceeds benefit their charities including, St. Mary Magdalen School and Parish, Padre Serra, Life Centers, Many Meals, Catholic education scholarships and more.

​$20/person by Nov 15, $25/door, $50/family of four.
Tickets available in the courtyard November 3-4, 10-11 or Paul (805) 233·2810, Ed (805) 443·8310.

​Hosted by the Camarillo Knights of Columbus.
Also visit: Groups, Outreach

Helping those in need locally and globally.
Your Christmas gift buying is double the blessing! Purchasing the below items for your loved ones also benefits our sisters and brothers in need here at home and around the globe.

• Poinsettia Plants ~ Life Centers of Ventura County    Pre-order your plants November 11-12 and November 17-18. Order pick up is December 1-2. Your generous support provides free testing, ultrasounds, resources, referrals and education for those in crisis pregnancies. Paul Collier (805) 233-2810.
• Christmas Cards ~ Knights of Columbus                           Your purchase benefits their many charities.
• See’s Candy ~ St. Vincent de Paul
• Concern America (Sunday only) ~ Beautiful fair trade craft items handcrafted by materially impoverished artisans in Latin America, Asia and Africa.

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​Also visit: Outreach

This fair trade craft program provides direct support to materially impoverished artisans and their communities in Latin America, Asia, and Africa. We have an opportunity to support them by purchasing their beautiful hand-made items: handcrafted textiles, ceramics and wood products from Bangladesh, El Salvador Guatemala, Mexico, and Mozambique.

​Also visit: www.concernamerica.org, Giving, Outreach

Do you know someone who is wondering if the Catholic Church is the place for them? It could be your neighbor, your coworker, or someone in your family.

​At Padre Serra, we have a group which meets on Tuesday evenings, year-round, to explore what it means to be a disciple of Jesus in the Catholic tradition. The atmosphere is informal, open and free of any pressure. Those attending are invited to ask any questions they may have followed by a discussion on various topics regarding our faith.

If you know someone who might be interested, invite them to accompany you to one of the meetings. We serve great refreshments, too!

For information please contact:
​Catherine Shadduck
catherine@padreserra.org 
(805) 482·6417 x331.

​Also visit: RCIA

Earthen Vessels Ministry believes that all Catholics/Christians impacted by divorce remain welcome!  So we are joining as a family-of-sorts to journey together, sharing collective lessons learned and resources available, holding each other up in prayer, and serving our community.

Earthen Vessels offers a welcoming environment for people dealing with divorce whether they are in the earliest (often most painful) stages of grief, the initial stages of coping with difficult changes (making necessary life adjustments), or whether they are through the worst of it and now looking to move forward, grow, and serve.

Our mission is:

• To be instruments through which God can embrace Catholics/Christians who have experienced divorce, by offering acceptance, comfort, encouragement, reconciliation and healing
• To be instruments through which divorced Catholics/Christians are encouraged to listen to the Word of God, attend mass, persevere in prayer, contribute to works of charity and to community efforts for justice, bring up their children in the Christian faith, and cultivate the spirit and practice of reconciliation and thus implore, day by day, God’s grace.

Our Motto is F.R.O.G. Fully Rely On God
Contact: Jett Clyne jettclyne@gmail.com 

Also visit: Groups, Care

Come join us every week for an hour of prayer and devotion to our Mother Mary. 

The first Wednesday of the month, stay after for fellowship.

Contact: 
Madel Mercado

Also visit:  Groups, Prayer, Filipino Ministry

SEEDS (Sisters ~ Embracing ~ Enlightening ~ Daughters of Faith) is a monthly evening of spirituality for women to meet in fellowship to share the Word of God and grow in faith. We are currently reading and studying The Friendship Project.
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​Contact: Gwen Ripplinger

Also visit: Women's Ministry, Groups

Illuman is a ministry for men, by men, to honor the uniqueness of male spirituality and committed to support who are seeking to deepen their spiritual lives.
Monthly group gatherings are designed to help become better, more authentic men.

Offers assistance with meals to those who are recovering from illness, accidents, injuries, and surgeries.
​Gwen Ripplinger (805) 797·6864
or Denise Ginty (805) 388·3897

Did you know that Eucharist means thanksgiving? 
​Start your holiday with fellow parishioners at mass. Our local tradition is to bring the bread, wine or cider that will be shared at the Thanksgiving table to church. We lay them on the altar steps where they will be blessed before we take them back home to serve to those we love.

Staff enjoy the holiday!!
November 21–23
​The office will close at noon on Wednesday and reopen on Saturday, November 24.
In case of an emergency requiring a priest please call (805) 512·3208.​

​Have a blessed holiday!

We gather. We pray. We write.

​New members are welcome anytime to our friendly group. We explore and practice different types of writing and read our work to one another each week. Some days we do “free writing” for ten minutes on a chosen topic. Other weeks we read our prepared pieces (up to 500 words) on a designated subject. Our topics are not overtly “religious,” but give us an opportunity to express the concerns of our souls. Many consider the experience to be healing. We encourage humor and playfulness; we laugh a lot. We inform each other about writing resources, and we share equally the responsibility for the successful working of the group.

This is as much a faith sharing group as it is a writing group. We pray together. We take care of one another. Our comments on one another’s writing are constructive and honor the deep feelings that are expressed.

​Contact:
Linda Lowe

Also visit: Adults

Parishioners Invited to Volunteer!
Join the team of parishioners producing the Fairways to Heaven tournament to raise money for expansion of our Youth Ministry space.  Our annual tournament is an opportunity to come together in fellowship to contribute to the future of our parish and church community. Activities include golf and corn hole tournaments, helicopter golf ball drop, silent and live auctions, dinner and live entertainment.  
We are seeking volunteers to join this fun team and have many “job openings” available.
​Please contact evecollier@verizon.net for more information.

Also visit: Fairways to Heaven Gallery

Helps the unemployed and underemployed focus their job search, improve resume and interview skills, network.
Contact:
Steve Loeffler
careertransitions@padreserra.org

Prayer support anytime, all year.
Bette Church: (805) 482 · 0067
Shirley (805) 482 · 2617 

Wonderful daily reflections for the Advent and Christmas seasons, simple, insightful, inspiring and easy to read.
Suggested donation of $2 each.
Have a prayerful, peaceful Advent!
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Contact teresa@padreserra.org

A fellowship and service ministry where all skill levels are welcome. No experience? That’s alright; we’ll show you. Come and learn or inspire others!

​The group's projects are donated to several groups and individuals throughout the year. 
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Contact:
​Donna Lovato

Also visit:
Women's Ministries, Group Ministries

Las Posadas is a Mexican tradition commemorating Mary and Joseph’s long frustrating search for a place to stay and Jesus to be born in Bethlehem. This Advent custom re-enacts the gospel story told in Luke 2:1-7 with prayer and song. We learn from the Posadas that by welcoming the poor and needy, we are welcoming Jesus in our midst.

Let us come together for a fun, interactive and enriching Advent celebration to prepare our hearts for Jesus’ coming! Come early to learn the posadas songs and stay for a fiesta with a piñata for the kids and goodies for the adults!

It's a holy day of obligation... rather a holy day of opportunity to celebrate the Blessed Virgin Mary who was born free from original sin.

The Church highly reveres Mary and we honor her throughout the year with several feast days, among them the Feast of the Immaculate Conception.  This holy day celebrates our belief that Mary was preserved by God from "original sin" from the moment of her conception.  This privilege was given to her in anticipation of her role as the mother of Jesus, the bearer of God.

What does this mean for her and for us?

We must remember that Mary was fully human, vulnerable to human weakness, but from the first moment of her existence, God filled her with grace so that she could live her life completely open to the Holy Spirit and to God's will.

This teaching gives us hope that we too, are destined to be free from sin and bearers of the divine. It is at our baptism that we are made new creations filled with God's grace. Everything that was possible for Mary is possible for us!

Visit also: Prayer

A New Look at Male and Female Spirituality
​Fr. Jim Clarke and Sr. Kathleen Bryant, RSC.

Spirituality is a broad subject area that has rightfully garnered much publicity in recent years.  Men and women approach this field of study and practice differently.

​In this workshop Fr. Jim and Sr. Kathy will unpack the differences through stories, analogies, images and humor.  Come and join the fun and expand your own repertoire of spiritual practices!