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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. Christopher Vincent Lamb, OP
By the time Fr. Lamb died, he was an institution in the Province and in the parishes he served. Much of our archives are due to his work and his recollections. He was born to Philip Lamb and Margaret Brady Lamb in Vallejo on July 28, 1871. At this time, Vallejo was served by the Dominicans. Fr. Vincent was baptized by a pioneer Dominican of the time, Fr. Louis Daniel, O.P. He also had the honor of being confirmed by Archbishop Alemany, O.P.
Two years after high school, he joined the Dominican Province. After his studies, he was ordained by Archbishop Riordan of San Francisco at St. Mary's Cathedral (Old Church). He immediately started work in our parish at Benicia, California. He continued for three years until he was called to San Francisco for a year. He returned to Benicia for another two years, and then became interim Pastor at Martinez for the year 1903.
Finally he received a long assignment, being moved to Portland, Oregon for ten years. During these years Holy Rosary in Portland became a Priory and he became the first Sub-Prior. He then moved to be Pastor in Vallejo for two years and afterward Prior and Pastor in Benicia for six years. In 1922 when the Postulants were moved to Kentfield to study, Fr. Lamb went there to teach. When the school dissolved and the postulants moved to Benicia, Fr. Lamb moved with them and became Prior and Pastor again for two terms with a minor stint in Vallejo as assistant and in Berkeley as Pastor. After his term as Prior and Pastor ended he moved back to Kentfield to teach, since the Novitiate had moved from Benicia to Kentfield the previous year. During his stay in Kentfield, he turned seventy years old. Therefore, in 1943 he took an easier job, Chaplain to the Dominican sisters in Everett, Washington. He moved with them when they moved to Edmonds, Washington, and died in Chehalis, Washington at St. Helen's Hospital in 1962 at the age of ninety.
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Date of Birth |
Date of Profession |
Date of Ordination |
Date of Death |
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July 28, 1871 |
May 31, 1891 |
December 21, 1895 |
March 6, 1962 |
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