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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. Hyacinth James Derham, OP
Not much is known about Fr. Hyacinth except his ministry sites. After his ordination in 1864, he ministered at Saint Francis in San Francisco. Three years later he served at St. Catherine of Siena in Martinez. In 1871, he lived at Holy Rosary house in San Francisco and served St. Brigid's. In 1874, he moved to St. Dominic's in that city. His last assignment was at Benicia, California from 1879 until his death in 1891. While there, he was Master of the Conversi.
Outline for one of his Mission Schedules
Mission sermons schedule
St. Dominic's Church, San Francisco
May 13-26, 1866Day 1
1. Advantages of the mission
2. End of man
Day 2
1. Mortal sin
2. Confession
3. Duties of married women
Day 3
1. Examen of conscience: Contrition
2. Death
3. Duties of married men
Day 4
1. Habit of sin
2. Judgment
3. Duties of young women
Day 5
1. Delay of conversion
2. Communion
3. Duties of young men
Day 6
1. Commandments of God
2. Commandments of the Church
Day 7
1. Drunkenness
2. Hell
Day 8
1. Fraternal charity
2. Mercy of God
Day 9
1. Devotion to the Blessed Virgin
2. Devotion to the Blessed Sacrament -- Sacrilege
Day 10
1. Duties of the people towards the parish
2. Sufferings of Christ
Day 11
1. Danger of relapsing with sin
2. [Final perseverance crossed out] Catholic church -- popular objections to
Day 12
1. Vanity of the world in seeking to acquire the perishable goods of this earth while the lasting goods of heaven are neglected and forgotten -- Injustices
2. The Catholic Church, the true Church
Day 13
1. The scapular order and other religious confraternities -- Religious orders
2. Means of salvation -- prayer
Day 14
1. Final perseverance
2. Heaven -- Renewal of baptismal vows -- Papal benediction
Day after the close of the mission
1. Mass for the dead and sermon on purgatory
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Date of Birth |
Date of Profession |
Date of Ordination |
Date of Death |
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May 20, 1830 |
August 4, 1861 | 1864 |
December 30, 1891 |
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