The risk of coronavirus is real, and it is dangerous. NOW is the time to be vaccinated for the safety of all.  Your priests are vaccinated with no side effects.  This is the time to pray for one another, trust in Jesus, and focus on the care and love He has for each one of us. May Jesus, through the intercession of Mary, Queen of the Angels, continue to bless our parishioners and loved ones with good health, joy, and peace.

Facial coverings required at all times on the property; please practice social distancing, even outdoors.

Daily Mass (7:30 a.m. M-F) available in person or via livestream on Facebook and YouTube.  

Mission Basilica San Buenaventura will offer the following Mass schedule in the Basilica in-person (registration required) and livestream:
Saturday:
5:30 PM ENGLISH
7:30 PM SPANISH

All this is fluid and may change as needs arise. In ALL CASES, everyone needs to wear facial covering, sanitize their hands, and maintain social distance. NO ONE is required to attend Mass in person...these are options.

Holy Communion is offered in the Basilica garden on Sunday at 10:00 AM.  Please recite the Lord's Prayer when entering the garden...wear a mask, sanitize hands, keep social distance, follow blue lines to side church door.

Confessions are offered on Saturday at 4:00 p.m. in the garden or by appointment.

Stations of the Cross are livestreamed and in-person up to 70 persons: Fridays: 7:00 PM (English); 7:45 PM (Spanish)

Adoration and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament is livestreamed and in-person up to 70 persons: Sundays at 7:00 PM and following First Friday Mass.

Parish Office is closed to the public. Staff are available by phone or email M-F from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Indoor Ministry Meetings are suspended until further notice. Parish Ministries are encouraged to continue to meet electronically.

Gift Shop, Museum, Garden, and Basilica are open daily from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM. 

Main Street closed 200-600 blocks. Access to the Mission upper parking lot from Palm Street is via Santa Clara Street and Poli Street. Weekend access to the lower parking lot on Main Street is via Ventura Avenue.

Restrooms are closed presently.

Click here for family prep for weekly Sunday Mass at Home / para su familia prepararse cada semana para la Misa en casa

Click here to preprare for Mass at home.   Click here por preparandose para la misa en casa

Click here to view Mass at the Mission on YouTube.  

Click here to see schedule of livestream Masses throughout the Archdiocese. 

See website for online Baptism Prepration and Marriage Classes

Click here for an Act of Spiritual Communion Prayer/Acto de comunión espiritual

Click here for Prayers and Spiritual Resources

If you cannot go to confession...Pope Francis.

Welcome to the Mission Basilica San Buenaventura!...the Mission by the Sea! 

Therefore, do not throw away your confidence; it will have great recompense. You need endurance to do the will of God and receive what he has promised. We are not among those who draw back and perish, but among those who have faith and will possess life. (Hebrews 10: 35-36, 39)

In preparing to begin another Lent, I am haunted that we are now in our second Lenten season of COVID19. We certainly miss our normal gathering as a parish family and with our friends and neighbors as we socially distance for the protection of all. I encourage you to follow the prescribed safety protocols and be vaccinated as soon as possible so that we all may celebrate the Easter joy of new life together.

We are reminded in the above passage from the letter to the Hebrews to be resilient, to be a people of hope and have confidence in God’s abiding mercy and love, to be among those who have faith and possess life.

When it comes to the three traditions of Lent, I suggest that as we start again, we approach them a little differently this year to take an action to enable a deeper conversion.

Prayer—spending more time listening in prayer, waiting for the answer to: “What is God trying to tell me?”

Fasting—not just from food or drink, but the things that dull my awareness of God’s presence in my life at every moment, in every relationship, in every human encounter.

Almsgiving—spending time finding, and acting in a concrete way to reach out to the poor and the marginalized.

To assist each of you on your Lenten journey 2021, several ministry programs are offered to help keep us focused on the better things…our faith, our trust, and our acceptance. To learn more about these initiatives, please visit our Mission Basilica website (www.sanbuenaventuramission.org). Below in brief is our parish gift to you this Lent:

Ash Wednesday Mass Livestreamed and in person up to 70 persons and overflow in the garden, bring your own chair: Distribution of Ashes in the garden…see schedule to the right on the website.

Sunday Gospel reflections via Zoom: join us on Thursday evenings during Lent at 7:00 PM to hear, meditate and pray about the next Sunday Gospel reading.

FORMED: A parish sponsored subscription for YOU to freely access hundreds of movies, books, programs and more…register via the Mission Basilica website.

The University Series: virtual this year, one class M-F nights during Lent. Paid preregistration required.

Mass Livestreamed and in-person up to 70 persons: daily M-F at 7:30 AM; Saturday 5:30 PM (Spanish); Sunday 9:00 AM (English)

Eucharist (Holy Communion) distributed in the garden on Sunday between 10:00 AM and 11:00 AM

Sacrament of Penance (Confessions): Every Saturday at 4:00 PM in the garden OR call for an appointment.

Stations of the Cross Livestreamed and in-person up to 70 persons: Fridays: 7:00 PM (English); 7:45 PM (Spanish)

Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament Livestreamed and in-person up to 70 persons: Sundays at 7:00 PM and following First Friday Mass.

To help sustain these ministries, please consider your weekly offering via electronic ONLINE GIVING.

Let’s make this the best Lent ever and grow as missionary disciples of Jesus.

For recent or future ministies or events please viw our parish bulletin link to the rightside of the website or view the calendar of events under "EVENTS" above.

Click here to take a tour of the Mission with Fr. Tom and Joe Estevez as seen on "All Things Catholic" NETNY.TV Brooklyn, New York Television 

Amgen Cycle Tour 2019 in Beautiful Downtown Ventura!

To help sustain the legacy of our historic MissionBasilica: please remember Mission Basilica San Buenaventura in your Will or Trust planning.

"Siempre Adelante"  Shalom, Fr. Tom Elewaut

Mission Basilica San Buenaventura is pleased to offer FORMED to our parishioners.

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