Submit a Patriarchal Blessing recommend trough LCR

Hello All, I'm the ward clerk and I'm trying to help one of our members get his Patriarchal blessing appointment set up. We are a the only Spanish speaking ward in our stake and we normally have our members go to a different Patriarch so that they may receive it in Spanish. We normally just print the recommend from MLS and have the Bishop and a member of the stake presidency sign it. Member with the recommend calls the Patriarch for an appointment and that's it. But 2 weeks ago when the member called the Patriarch he told him that this has to be done through LDS.org now. We created a LDS.org user name and password for the member and the submit button is grayed out for him. I've logged in and tried under my account and same deal. The Bishop tried with his account and same deal, the submit button is not active for any of our accounts. The Patriarch is determined to follow the instructions from his Stake president to make sure this is done online but I don't know what else to do to help our brother get his blessing. This is a brother who was inactive for a while is now coming back to church and trying to do better and this is not helping him. Any help with this issued will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,
Cristian Guzman

The bishop starts a recommendation in the patriarchal blessing application. He should be able to click the submit button if he is logged in to his LDS account and the online submission is available in your area.

If he can't then I would call the global servic centre and ask them to check it out.

Hello and thanks for your reply. The Bishop has tried a few times already and he's not able to do it either. Do you know the number for the global service center? Again thanks for your help.

Depends on where you are, here is the link to the contact numbers:
https://www.lds.org/help/support/record ... p?lang=eng

Awesome, thank you!!!

Looking over the help file, it says the Stake President has to activate the system before it's usable. However, if that was the case, I'd think they'd run into a problem before the submit button.

It is possible that the stake to which the Spanish-speaking member will receive his blessing is using the online system, whereas the stake where you live is not yet using the online system. If that is the case, your stake president may need to make the decision to move online, or else he will have to work out something with the other stake president and patriarch.

He will also need to have the MRN of the patriarch in the other stake to complete the online approval process.

Thanks everyone for all your help. I've spoken with the stake president from the other stake and he can submit the electronic request . For now the solution is we'll send a copy of the recommend to the stake president from the other stake and he will submit the electronic recommend. I spoke with the people at the global service center and they are the ones that suggested this solution and told me that this electronic submission program is not available for us yet. Again thanks all for your help.

cguzman wrote:and told me that this electronic submission program is not available for us yet. Again thanks all for your help.

Either it hasn't been completely rolled out, or your stake president hasn't turned it on.

I see a letter on OCL dated January 2015 announcing it. But careful reading of the "To" suggests it wasn't for all stakes just then.

Yeah to be honest I didn't really question their answer and when I spoke with the Patriarch's Stake president he didn't seem to questioned it either. I'm just glad that it is done and that we found for now a system that will work. I've since talked with our Stake president and the Stake clerk and they are both looking into this to see if there's a way to activate this for our Stake. Again thanks for all your help.

cguzman wrote:I've since talked with our Stake president and the Stake clerk and they are both looking into this to see if there's a way to activate this for our Stake.

Have them visit the Official Communication Library (letters.lds.org) and search for "Patriarchal Blessing". My stake has one dated January 2015. It contains the instructions for activating it.

I noticed it was initially announced in Feb 2011, so roll out must be pretty slow. The roll out appears to be done by area, so if your neighboring stake has it, I think there's a good chance it's in place for you and the Stake President just has to follow the letter.

I am a bishop and don't see under "applications" a place to submit a patriarchal blessing recommend. I see where you go to "patriarchal blessing submission" but not for recommends. The "help" area of the LDS.com website is of very little help honestly. Very frustrating. Not a day of "peace and rest." lol. Thanks for any help.

garrb1 wrote:I am a bishop and don't see under "applications" a place to submit a patriarchal blessing recommend.

Your stake needs to be a participating stake (all are eligible) and also needs to have activated the recommend system for you to be able to use it. You might visit with your stake clerk or president to see if that has happened for your stake. Or your patriarch will also know if he is submitting blessings electronically yet.

Web page "Patriarchal Blessing Submission page: Where it says "Request" "View" "Submit" . Evidently "Submit" means you can submit a recommend (not made really clear here), not submit a patriarchal blessing (as in the patriarch). Simplifying has made things confusing. Even the help section of the Help area doesn't provide any info on how to submit a recommend. I find it funny that there's a forum for that sort of thing. Looks like I'll be looking for info on the forum vs the help area.

Any knowledge of when the full functionality of the "Submit" function will be available around the world. I'm in London, England, and I can get to the website, but there's nothing on the website that links me to any kind of useful submission or request form.

Any knowledge of when the full functionality of the "Submit" function will be available around the world. I'm in London, England, and I can get to the website, but there's nothing on the website that links me to any kind of useful submission or request form.

I am in Leicester and we can submit through LCR, I would have thought it would be available to you.

What is your calling?

collinlambourne wrote:Any knowledge of when the full functionality of the "Submit" function will be available around the world. I'm in London, England, and I can get to the website, but there's nothing on the website that links me to any kind of useful submission or request form.

After the stake president authorizes the electronic patriarchal blessing process for his stake, the submit function becomes available to the units in his stake.

my stake president have log in with his LDS Account and went through the patriarchal blessing webpage, but there is no where to authorise that in his stake, please is there any assistance and or processes on how to resolve this? Also this is also of my concern which i do need help- "Please can someone help with a Patriarchal Blessing template/form either in pdf or word format to enable me assist my Patriarch in type and edit his work and print directly instead of after typing print it on a headed paper being customized, Please assistance greatly be appreciated. thanks?.

i am the new stake clerk of a newly organized stake and the previous stake was using the electronic submission for the Patriarchal Blessing submitting. but i do not know how to activate this for our new stake.

gdcall wrote:i am the new stake clerk of a newly organized stake and the previous stake was using the electronic submission for the Patriarchal Blessing submitting. but i do not know how to activate this for our new stake.

I think the stake president has to go in and do it.

Hello...I'm having a hard time obtaining my Patriarchal blessings online.I followed the instruction and when I select request patriarchal blessing , nothing show up.No patriarchal blessing copy for me.Please me.Sister Victoria of New York City.

Victoria2021 wrote: Tue Nov 04, 2025 10:06 pm Hello...I'm having a hard time obtaining my Patriarchal blessings online.I followed the instruction and when I select request patriarchal blessing , nothing show up.No patriarchal blessing copy for me.Please me.Sister Victoria of New York City.

Has it been "a few weeks" (from https://pb.churchofjesuschrist.org/pbre ... e/personal ) since you initially requested your blessing online?

Victoria2021 wrote: Tue Nov 04, 2025 10:06 pm Hello...I'm having a hard time obtaining my Patriarchal blessings online.I followed the instruction and when I select request patriarchal blessing , nothing show up.No patriarchal blessing copy for me.Please me.Sister Victoria of New York City.

I'm uncertain if you're trying to get access to your own personal patriarchal blessing, or a deceased family member's blessing. A pdf version of your blessing should be visible on the main webpage linked in the previous response by @rmrichesjr. Are you trying to get a family member's patriarchal blessing via the "Family Blessings" webpage?

Also, you might want to sit down with your local ward clerk this coming Sunday, and show him what you're trying to do. Having someone sit beside you in-person, can often help identify whatever is needed, easier than trying to do it via posts in an online Forum.