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Vocation Office
Western Dominican Province
5890 Birch Court
Oakland, CA 94618-1626
(510)-596-1821
Our Vocations require a great deal of support, from the first moment they begin their novitiate until the last moments of their retirement. Please do conside visiting our donation page and helping form and sustain the priests and brothers who will serve you in the future, serve you now and have served you in the past.
Saints and Blesseds
The Order of Friars Preachers,
The Dominican Order,
has a beautiful history of learning, service and holiness manifested in its saints and blesseds of every age since its foundation by St. Dominic de Guzman. Do enjoy the periodic postings of such stories as are available from various sources, especially our own archives.
Religious Retirement
Our elderly and infirm friars receive the best care we have available to us, as in any family. We rely heavily on the donations of others for our own existence and thus when one of our own becomes incapable of further ministry due to age or infirmity, those same donations help us support the sometimes necessary special care required by such members of our communities.
We prefer to care for our elderly and infirm in our own houses so that the life of a religious community can be a part of a friars life as long as possible. This is also the most economical in many ways. We strive to use donations wisely. But sometimes a care facility is essential. As we, as a Province, do not benefit from the national collection for retired religious, we ask that you assist us in caring for these friars who have prayed, taught, served and ministered for so many years amomg the people of the Western United States and beyond.
Please, in your kindness, consider assisting us in this work of brotherly love.
Many thanks in advance.
Catholicism
It's just the right thing
Br. Francis Joseph Walsh, OP
Joseph Walsh was born on May 10, 1884. He entered the Order in 1919 and was sent to Washington, D.C. to study. He was solemnly professed on January 22, 1922 at St. Dominic's in San Francisco. After profession, he moved to Ross. In 1927 he moved to Benicia and went by the name Francis. In 1931 he moved to St. Dominic's in San Francisco and the next year moved to St. Albert's in Oakland. In 1938 he moved to St. Vincent Ferrer in Vallejo. In 1942 he returned to San Francisco. During this time he was the personal brother to Fr. Benedict Blank, OP who was Provincial at the time. In 1951 he was assigned to Oakland once again and two years later moved to Ross. While at Ross, he was a nurse to Fr. Stanislaus Olsen, who had lost his legs to diabetes. He died on the way to the Hospital on July 19, 1961. He is remembered as being a great brother to all. May God give him eternal rest.
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Date of Birth |
Date of Profession |
Date of Ordination |
Date of Death |
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May 10, 1884 |
January 17, 1922 |
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July 19, 1961 |
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