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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
Fr. Augustine William Netterville, OP
Of Fr. Augustine Netterville, Fr. Vincent Lamb wrote: "Good lawyer, good case for permission to establish Church in San Francisco, St. Dominic's of Pius Murphy; friend of Archbishop, but managed our side of conflict, others wanted to let go -- he went on."
William Netterville was born on January 7, 1866, and on October 19, 1884 he made profession as a Dominican friar. He was ordained on September 17, 1890. Little else was recorded of him, except some of his dates and places of assignment. After serving his first assignment in San Francisco, he was sent to Benicia, California in 1885, and then to Vallejo in 1903. In the early 1920's he served in Antioch as well as on the Provincial Council, and then was made Vice Pastor at St. Dominic's in San Francisco in 1924, where he remained for several years, serving in various capacities, such as Master of Conversi (1932) and Sub-Prior (1939).
In 1950 he retired to Ross, California where he died in 1954. Fr. Antoninus Wall remembers him as a quiet, unobtrusive man. Late in life when he had been bed-ridden for years the novices gave him the nickname "snowshoes" for walking around the house in slippers.
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Date of Birth |
Date of Profession |
Date of Ordination |
Date of Death |
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January 9, 1866 |
October 19, 1884 |
September 17, 1890 |
September 2, 1954 |
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