Requiescet in pace

VENTURA COUNTY STAR -- Monsignor Patrick J. O'Brien, an Irish immigrant who advocated for the poor and led the San Buenaventura Mission in Ventura for nearly a quarter-century, has died at the age of 74.

Go HERE for the VENTURA COUNTY STAR report.

By all accounts Monsignor O'Brien was a good priest who served the Church faithfully. There has been an indult Mass at the Mission for many years thanks, in large part, to the good Monsignor. I hope it will continue now that a change in the pastoral administration of the mission parish is on the horizon.

May his soul and souls of all the faithful departed through the mercy of God rest in peace!