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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. Raymond Charles Bertheaux, OP
Brother Raymond Charles Bertheaux grew up in San Francisco, from where he entered the Order in 1953; since then, he has seen many ministries. Stateside he has been assigned to Oakland, San Francisco and Kentfield, but the majority of his fifty years as a Dominican Cooperator Brother have been spent outside of the country. He spent seventeen years at our Mexican mission in Chiapas, where he was involved in catechetics and pre-diaconate formation. Then, he had one year of study at the Angelicum in Rome followed by twelve years at Santa Sabina, our Generalate in Rome, where he was assigned to the bookstore, the archives, and the production staff of Analecta, an important publication of the Order. Next, he spent eight years in Guatemala, In the summer of 2003 he arrived to begin his third tour of duty at Saint Albert’s, this time serving as Provincial Archivist. Brother Raymond loved the prayer, the chapel, and the architectural beauty at Saint Albert’s, but he said, what he loved most of all about Saint Albert’s today is our brothers.
Memorial gifts in his honor may be sent to Br. Raymond Bertheaux Burse - Western Dominican Province - 5877 Birch Court - Oaklnad, CA 94618. Or one can make a memorial gift using our Donation Page.
Eulogy at Vigil Service by Fr. Roberto Corral, OP
Homily at the Funeral Mass by Fr. Mark Padrez, OP
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Date of Birth |
Date of Profession |
Date of Ordination |
Date of Death |
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March 19, 1936 |
March 22, 1954 |
Cooperator Brother |
November 22, 2011 |
Archive Record: ___