It has been my happy custom to carry the prayers and hopes of the parishioners when I’ve gone on pilgrimage. Whenever I pass, a shrine, or a church, I stop, takeoff my pack, and work my way through a few of the prayers you’ve given me. It would please me to be able to do that again. So please post a note below, and leave me the prayers you’d like me to carry with me.
On September 18th, Fr. Jim and I will get together to pull together some of our last plans. We will bless each other’s backpacks and stamp our pilgrim passports with the stamp you see here on the left.
Pilgrimage always starts at home. Whenever parishioners tell me that they’re going to walk to Santiago, I invite them to bring their backpacks, their walking sticks, and their pilgrim passports. and I bless them, and stamp their pilgrim passports on the altar.
Perhaps you were thinking about doing a pilgrimage to Santiago, or Rome? I hope you are. Let me know if you do.
Remember to leave me your prayers in the post below.
Love from your priest,
Fr. Patrick
Father Patrick!
I would ask that you pray that we always strive …. Thank you so much and praying for you and your journey.
Father Lord, make us a channel of your peace
that where there is hatred, we always bring love;
that where there is wrong,
That we may bring the spirit of forgiveness;
that where there is discord, we may bring harmony;
that where there is error, we may bring truth;
that where there is doubt, we may bring faith;
that where there is despair, we may bring hope;
that where there are shadows, we may bring light;
that where there is sadness, we may bring joy.
Lord, grant that we may seek rather to
comfort than to be comforted;
to understand, than to be understood;
to love, than to be loved.
For it is by self-forgetting that one finds.
It is by forgiving that one is forgiven.
It is by dying that one awakens to Eternal Life.
Hi Fr pat. I am excited that you made it. Really cool. I ask that you Please pray for my fiancée who was on her way to be baptized and god brought her to heaven. Suddenly and unexpectedly recently. Her name is Gillian Schaefer. I’m Matthew Metoyer. My parents are John n Robin. We have and always will be very close to our parish at PS and Fr Bruce Corrio in SB. I wish you well my friend. Thank you for what you do for this crazy world we live in. Stay safe. Farewell and following seas. May God bless us all. 🙏
Fr. Patrick please pray for a good result from the epidural I am having tomorrow morning, October 3, to relieve my long present lower back pain.
Blessings to you and Fr. Jim as you begin your joint pilgrimage tomorrow.
Bill R.
* For my Mom, 93 yrs. For her good health & safe travel to Israel
* For my niece, Rebecca. .mental illness, homeless & pregnant – to get clean & open to help
* For the Edie family esp. their daughters
* For those recently widowed
* For my children & grandchildren, to connect/reconnect with our gracious God
* For Mike & all the friends on my prayer list
* For myself-to be open & available when I’m needed & that I be a good example to my loved ones
* For you & Fr. Jim, safety, joy, peace, fun (& again happy feet) on your pilgrimage. Enjoy!!
This is a difficult one! Our Camino of life might be taking us away from Camarillo, away from California and away from Padre Serra! I am praying that Bernie and I may make the right decision for us and our future. Our lives have been so blessed and our family is so important as is how we live the last few decades (God willing)! May we follow Gods plan for us wherever it takes us!
Amen
God bless you and Jim on this Camino. God blessed my life by putting you both in it! Be safe and come home!
Dear Fr Patrick,
I pray for you and for your fellow pilgrims.
Please pray with me for all those suffering and for their peace and comfort from suffering. May the kindness of God’s love soothe them by imploring kind actions in those who are yet unaware of their ability to love with such openness and fearlessness. Let us take care of one another through God’s abundant love for all. May I walk in His way. Amen.
Please pray for my family.
Kayla- 7years fight Brian cancer she is only 13.
Ty- anxiety and depression, help making friends
Nana- Alzheimer’s and lung transplant
Kenzie- good health and do well in school.
Husband-good health, do well at work,
Myself – I ask that God help me be understanding and patient and guide me to better help my family. To help me keep Faith in my Family during this hardship.
Lastly i pray that you have a safe trip.
A Prayer from a Parishioner from St. Agatha
Dear God, I present to you, my sister, Pat, who is in my heart, and this Is my prayer for her. Help her to live her life according to Your Will.
May it be You who puts her in high places like the Eagles. May she spread love and sunshine in the dark places where it is difficult for others to reach. May she bring a word of love, healing, and liberation to others. Protect her. Keep away from any viruses, danger, pain, or disease. Lift her up when she feels weak and when she walks, let her feel your presence and the certainty that she will be safe in your Holy Hands in the Mighty Name of Jesus! Amen
Please pray for my sister Leticia Melendez that her sickness leave her if it is God’s Will. She keeps defying all the doctors and the medical world! God is in charge!
Please pray for my friends Angie, Shawn and Shawn #2, all battling cancer.
Please pray for my daughter, Harmony, to find her way back to Jesus.
Sorry to be long winded. God Bless you, Father Patrick! Have a blessed journey!
Please pray for Rita that her cancer is cured (miracle) or ease her way to the Father.
Please pray for my two daughters in college. Pray for them staying close to God, and their safety, wisdom, and academics. Thank you!
Please pray for my dad, Alex during his recovery from a complicated surgery.
Please pray for my boss, Shelley going through cancer treatments.
Pray that God will grant mercy to Bill and that his next epidural on October 3 will work to relieve the terrible back pain Bill has endured over the past 2 1/2 years. Barb
Pray that our grandson, Sean, will return to the Church on a regular and long term basis. His sister and mom stepped away from the Church some 15 years ago. Pray that they might see the light and return to our Lord Jesus Christ and his Church.
I pray that as your faith and goodness increases with every step you take on this journey, so too may that faith and goodness that you impart to all you encounter bring them closer to the Lord’s mercy.
Please pray for my wife, Teresa for her health, for myself and my job and for my estranged family members in California. Also for my Brother Knight in Goleta suffering from throat cancer and for the Church and Knights of Columbus in general.
Please pray for the people of our country who are being torn apart by a culture that is opposed to Christianity in so many ways. Today’s culture is concentrated on “it’s all about me!” This is contrary to our Christian belief and teaching that we are to love our neighbors as ourselves and even love our enemies.
Please pray for the people of Ukraine, Russia, Iran, Syria, Sudan, Ethiopia, North Korea, China and many other countries where they are suffering from authoritarian leaders and warfare.
Please pray for my good and long-time friends Joe and Lynne an their daughter Kristen. Facing physical problems, Joe a broken hip from a recent fall, Lynne long running pain an emotional trauma, Kristen facing divorce from an abusing husband.
We hope that Fr. Patrick and Fr. Jim will experience a closeness with God on your pilgrimage, similar to Fr. Patrick’s experience on El Camino. May God be with you.
Please pray for the family of my late cousin Ruth. She passed away after her third bought with breast cancer. Her husband Paul and all her family, are lost without her. Son Ben, daughter Betsy and their kids. her brother, My cousin Ed was very close to her socially and is having a hard tome with her loss.
Please pray for Maura Russi’s sons, Anthony, Brendan and Colum and all their families that they return to the Church. Her oldest son Dominic and his family go to Mass regularly and their daughter is attending Catholic school in Las Vegas area where they live.
Maura is a very good friend with whom we have shared Mass practically since we started attending Padre Serra in 2007.
Please pray for my mother and father and our family and friends who have gone before us. Lord protect my family and help my wife in her recovery.
Denis
I am happily adding everyone’s prayers as they come in! Please add yours below!
Blessings,
Fr. Patrick
That the gracious and loving arms of OUR LORD embrace Bob and Rosanne Lattanzi and give them strength and fortitude to help them with their health issues so that they can live their lives enjoying their family and friends. Thanks be to our loving GOD. AMEN
No prayers for me, just praying that you & Fr. Jim will have continued spiritual growth in wisdom (not that I think you need it), lots of laughter and happy feet!
Oh, such a lovely prayer. Fr. Jim and I are so hoping to have happy feet! — Thank you, FP
Please pray that the tumors do not leave me a mindless vegetable. Your Will be done. Please pray that I do not get wrapped up in fear, woes or worry, but that I trust God in all steps in my life. Please pray that Holy Spirit will continue to allow me to be present to people who need someone.
For unity and healing in our families