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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. Bertrand Frederick Clyne, OP
Father Bertrand Frederick Clyne, O.P., a native of Benicia, California was born on March 23, 1877 and was baptized in St. Dominic’s Church there. He received the Dominican habit in St. Dominic’s Priory, Benicia, and stayed there for his priesthood studies. He was ordained a priest on June 25, 1902, by Archbishop Patrick William Riordan in St. Mary’s Cathedral, San Francisco.
During his sixty-one years as a priest Father Clyne served as Assistant Pastor in the Dominican parishes in San Francisco, Antioch, Benicia, Vallejo, Portland and Eagle Rock. He was acting Pastor in the Dominican Parishes of Crockett and Martinez and Pastor in Pittsburg, California and Benicia. His brother provided him with a Stutz Bearcat car in which he provided transportation for the acolytes.
During the First World War, Father Clyne was a Chaplain with the Marines and distinguished himself for bravery, and retired as a Lieutenant Commander in the Naval Reserve. He ended as the most decorated Chaplain in the military. Afterwards, he was appointed Chaplain at the Little Sisters of the Poor in San Francisco. He was a favorite confessor at St. Dominic’s, San Francisco, during his later years.
Father Clyne died at the College of the Immaculate Conception, Kentfield, on January 11, at the age of eighty-six. Solemn Requiem Mass was offered for Father Clyne at St. Dominic’s Church, Benicia, on January 14, and he was buried at St. Dominic’s Cemetery.
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Date of Birth |
Date of Profession |
Date of Ordination |
Date of Death |
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March 23, 1877 |
October 10, 1896 |
June 25, 1902 |
January 11, 1964 |
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