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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. Lawrence Edward Banfield, OP
Edward Anthony Banfield was born with convulsions on September 30, 1914 in Chicago. Three days after his birth he was taken to a South Side Chicago hospital. The doctors didn't really know what to do for him so they decided to give him a large dose of aspirin to see if that would stop the convulsions. While the doctors were in the medicine room preparing the injection a nun all dressed in black went into the baby's room and prayed over him. The convulsions stopped.
In 2001 Fr. Banfield had dinner with Josyp Terelya, a contemporary mystic, suffering servant, and victim of Communism, who had two visitations from Our Blessed Mother while in Russian prisons most of his younger life. Josyp was in a cell where air was 60 below zero was pumped in. He was turning blue when Our Blessed Lady appeared and told him he would be released in February of 1987. Josyp looked at Fr. Banfield and said; "You are the Dominican priest I was told by Mother Cabrini that I would meet one day. She is the nun who prayed over you after your birth."
Donate in the name of Fr. Banfield
Photos unknown (thumbnail) | 2007 (thumbnail)
Rest In Peace, Apr 13, 2011
Their Lives Were Changed Completely, Jan 3, 2009
Holy Week Meditation, March 2008
The Right Place, Feb 24, 2008
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Date of Birth |
Date of Profession |
Date of Ordination |
Date of Death |
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September 30, 1914 |
September 9, 1936 |
June 7, 1941 |
April 11, 2011 |
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