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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. Basil Edward Kenny, OP
Fr. Basil was born in San Francisco in the late nineteenth century and was given the baptismal name of Edward. It was at 10:00 AM, on September 23, 1898 that he first donned the Dominican habit. After studying Philosophy and Theology, he was ordained a priest in 1904 and assigned to St. Vincent Ferrer Church in Vallejo. He would, in 1912, go on to become the Rector of St. Rose of Lima Church in Vallona, which is now known as Crockett, California. Eventually, he found his way to Holy Rosary in Portland, Oregon and become their Procurator, but by the year 1923 he was needed more in Los Angeles. He became the Assistant Pastor in Los Angeles at our parish, St. Dominic's, in Eagle Rock. There he would take on the responsibilities of Vicar Coop. He had come to the parish to help pave the way for a school to be added to the parish church. This task was not easy, and both Fr. Basil and Fr. E. G. McMullan, Pastor, labored in this effort. However, in less than a year, Fr. Basil died at the age of 44.
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Date of Birth |
Date of Profession |
Date of Ordination |
Date of Death |
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March 19, 1880 |
October 10, 1899 |
June 29, 1904 |
February 11, 1925 |
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