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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. John Patrick Barry, OP
Br. John Patrick Barry was born in Portland, Oregon in 1868. He is on record as having served as an acolyte at Holy Rosary, the Dominican parish in Portland in 1907. There is not much known about this cooperator brother.
He joined this Province in 1920 when we had the Novitiate with the Province of St. Joseph in Somerset, Ohio. He was already 52 when he was called to religious life. In Ohio, Br. John was the community's mailman and he took care of Fr. Leo Adams, a member of the Third Order--today known as the Dominican Laity. After two years there, he came to our community at Ross, California. Following his years of formation he went to serve the community in Portland, Oregon his hometown. He served them from 1926 to 1929, and then he went for a short stay to Benicia and two years to the new House of Studies in Oakland. He returned to Portland where he served for three more years dying at the age of 67.
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Date of Birth |
Date of Profession |
Date of Ordination |
Date of Death |
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September 7, 1868 |
October 10, 1922 |
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December 6, 1935 |
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