Our parish charters Troop #257 for boys in grades 6-12. For more information about Boy Scouts in general please visit their website or the Ventura County Council.
​For more information about Boy Scouts, please contact:
Terry Tong 
​terrytong76@gmail.com

​For more information about Girl Scouts, please contact:
Karen Fraser
(805) 987 · 8432
fraserclan5@verizon.net

Every Sunday morning, rain or shine, we serve coffee, donuts and fresh fruit after each Mass.
This is a great opportunity for adults, teens and children to share in friendship, fellowship, and conversation. Working side-by-side pouring joe and serving dough!
Ministers of coffee and donuts needed. To get involved, contact: ​
Richard king407@aol.com

Also visit: Weekend Experience

We work to maintain this part of our church grounds and pray for each person who walks through the garden that they may find God's peace there. We prune, weed, and maintain the garden, as we share our appreciation for the beauty of God's creation.
All gardeners welcome, and you can bring your children! Come for an hour or more as you are able. If you like to be outside and do not garden, we always have small jobs to do.
Bring a hat, clippers and a bucket. You can show up, but a phone call may be useful in case of a schedule change.
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Contact: Winifred Jordan (805) 603·0412.

Also visit: Ministries A to Z, Spiritual

Fraudulent emails are being sent by an individual posing as Father Patrick. Please do not email with the individual, divulge any personal information or provide money/credit card/gift card payments. Father Patrick will never request money from any parishioner by email. We have alerted the authorities of this continuing problem. Please forward any questionable emails claiming to be from Father Patrick to gaby@padreserra.org

​Phishing/Spoofing Prevention Tips

• Be suspicious of any unsolicited email requesting personal information.
• Avoid filling out forms in email messages that ask for personal information.
• Always compare the link in the email to the link that you are actually directed to.
• Log on to the official website, instead of "linking" to it from an unsolicited email.
• Contact the actual business that supposedly sent the email to verify if the email is genuine.

To report potential e-scams, please go the Internet Crime Complaint Center and file a report.

The donation truck will be in our parking lot to collect your gently used items: clothes, shoes, kitchen items, DVD/CD, luggage, sports gear, books, and toys. *No electronics please* 
Please come early, the truck will leave once filled. ​Items cannot be left in the office or food bin in church.

Your donations assist those in need twice! Once by donating for the Thrift Store and from those sales funds are given back to local SVDP chapters.

For free pickup of large donations like furniture, large appliances, and vehicles, please call St. Vincent de Paul at (323) 224·6280 or (800) 974·3571.

Together we can help our neighbors in need!

Also visit: St. Vincent de Paul, Groups, Outreach

The official installation for all newly trained servers.
On this day, at the 9:00am liturgy, all altar servers will process into church in a grand opening procession. This is the only time when the entire college of servers is acknowledged in their ministry of altar serving in our parish. ​It is understood that some of the servers will have already served a liturgy for that weekend, but all will be present none-the-less as a sign of unity.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Bob Shadduck.

Also visit: Altar Servers

There will be Trunk decoration (win a prize!), food, drinks, carnival games, DJ music, and dancing!

Want to volunteer or host a trunk? Questions?
Contact Christine Olsen (805) 482·6417 x349 or christine@padreserra.org

All children participating MUST have wristbands.

• Wristband per child $7.00 plus five cans of food per family for our food pantry
• Kids, your grown-ups get in free!
• Wristbands available at the parish office only weekday evenings between 5:00 - 7:00 pm
  ​and Sundays 8:00 am - 1:00 pm

Through this series of fourteen stations, we recall Jesus’ great love for us. This beautiful, ancient prayer commemorates successive incidents on Jesus' journey from condemnation by Pilate to his crucifixion and burial. Stations of the Cross is most commonly prayed during Lent, particularly on Fridays especially Good Friday, but can be prayed at any time.

Consider praying the Stations in our prayer garden. Use one of three versions, found in the garden’s box:

• ​Traditional Stations of the Cross
  (follows the 14  traditional events, depicted in our garden)
• Scriptural Stations
  developed by St. Pope John Paul II (invites us to follow 14 events, different from the traditional)
• Family

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Also visit: Lent,  Prayer

Taco Tuesdays Are Back! Have a busy Tuesday evening or a meeting or class at church? Come early to enjoy dinner in the courtyard.

Catechetical Sunday is a day set aside to recognize the vocation and ministry of teaching and sharing the faith with others. A wonderful opportunity to reflect on the role that each baptized person plays in handing on the faith and being a witness to the Gospel.

On this day catechists throughout the diocese, and country, are commissioned and dedicate themselves to their vocation of teaching the faith to the children, teens and adults of our parish community.

The catechists of our parish, wonderful men and
women who answered YES to the call to be present and walk the faith journey with the adults, youth and children of the parish, are called forth to receive a blessing and be formally commissioned to continue the beautiful labor of sharing and growing in the faith.

To all catechists in our lives, parents and grandparents, priests and deacons, religious sisters, church family, all who have been encounters of Jesus in our lives, we thank you!

Also visit: Children, Youth,  Adults, RCIA

We will showcase the ministries our parish offers to encounter and follow Jesus in our daily lives, and in response, become his disciples to bring others one step closer to God. Come learn more about opportunities for you or someone you know to be nourished, supported, and give your time and talent.

September 15

• Adult Faith Formation
• Altar Servers
• Annulment Ministry
• Centering Prayer
• Eucharistic Ministers (Liturgy)
• Event Hospitality & Baking
• Filipino Ministry
• First Friday Adoration
• Funeral Hospitality (Ushers)
• Hospitality (Ushers)
• Knights of Columbus
• Married Couples Retreat
• Men’s Ministry
• Men’s Retreat
• Our Lady of Perpetual Help
• Prayer & Pruning
• Prayer Chain
• Seniors Adaptive Exercise
• Social Spanish
• Sunday Café
• Toastmasters
• Weekend Welcome
• Writers Group
• Women’s Ministries:
  • Knitting
  • Legacy
  • Lemons on the Loose Fellowship
  • Moms Group
  • Seeds of Faith Spirituality Group
  • Women's Retreats

Questions:
Teresa Runyon
(805) 482·6417 x322
teresa@padreserra.org 

​Encounter Jesus, Be Disciples

Chorus Caritas is a collaborative choral project by conductors James Drollinger and Dominic MacAller featuring singers from St. Charles Borromeo Church and Padre Serra Parish.

Our mission is to create beautiful choral music and to support charities who do the work of disciples - caring for "the least of these."

More info:
Dominic MacAller 
(805) 482 · 6417 x327
dominic@padreserra.org
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Also visit: Music

Featuring soprano, Heidi Valencia Vass, with pianists, Eric Kinsley and Aidan Vass; flutist, Caitlin Boruch; and cellist, Celine Gietzen (a Camarillo resident). The program explores music inspired by faith and beauty.

The program features Bach’s iconic Cantata 82a for solo soprano. Maurice Ravel’s moving 'Deux mélodies hébraïques', and Olivier Messiaen’s haunting 'Vocalise-Étude'. Also on the program is a new piece by Los Angeles Philharmonic young composer fellow, Aidan Vass. Closing the program is a series of improvised arrangements of some of the most iconic hymns in the Christian canon. 

Main course and paper goods provided!
Water, soda, wine, and beer available for purchase.
Entertainment, games and activities for all ages!
Bring your chairs and blankets.

ACE Trio Members:
Shannon Canchola, Flute
Ryan Glass, Clarinet
Jason Stoll, Piano
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Featuring works by Howard Blake, Astor Piazzola, Judd Greenstein, Chris Rogerson, Daniel Dorff, and Guillaume Connesson.

Performing their own innovative arrangements and all accessible contemporary music by living composers from around the world, ACE Trio is devoted to bringing a fresh sound, new perspective, and new understanding to the contemporary music world.

ACE Trio thrives from educating audiences on the world of contemporary music and expert arranging. Every recital has been dedicated to carefully explaining the details to listen for in modern music, and choosing new music that all types of audiences can appreciate (musically trained and non-musically trained). Our mission is to help promote and ensure the survival of classical music through performance of these works.

Also visit: Music

• Fast from worry
• Fast from judging others and negativity
• Fast from pessimism and complaining
• Fast from anger about things and hostility towards people
• Fast from anxiety and bitterness
• Fast from self-righteousness and grudges
• Fast from greed and deceit
• Fast from envy and arrogance

​Also visit: Lent

For centuries, this popular tradition of blessing homes is associated with today’s solemnity of the Epiphany. For this blessing ritual, you will need chalk and a small bottle of holy water. Begin by gathering family members and friends around the front door of your home.

Leader: In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
      Let us pray. May Christ bless this home. Amen.

With chalk, sign the main door: 20 + C + M + B + 19                     
      The numbers represent the new year and the letters represent the initials of the Magi: Caspar, Melchior, and Balthazar. It may also be interpreted as the Latin phrase "Christus mansionem benedicat" which means "Christ bless this house."

Leader:  A reading from the book of Deuteronomy.
      Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your strength. These commandments I give you are to be in your hearts. Place them on the door-frames of your home and on your entry gate. The Word of the Lord.

Then move inside to sprinkle each room with holy water.

• Living room 
  Bring us to live with you one day in heaven.
  Bless this room, O Lord. Amen. 
• Kitchen
  The celestial feast awaits us.
  Bless this room, O Lord. Amen. 
• Dining room
  Seat us at the heavenly banquet.
  Bless this room, O Lord. Amen. 
• Bedrooms
  Be our renewal and our rest.
  Bless this room, O Lord. Amen. 
• Bathroom
  Make us clean with fresh water.
  ​Bless this room, O Lord. Amen.

All return to the front door to pray together:
Our Father…

Leader:
Bless this household through all the days to come, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, forever and ever. Amen.

For for an audition, please contact:

​Concert to benefit
​Alexandria House Los Angeles