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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. Louis James Robinson, OP
James Robinson was born on May 12, 1931 in Seattle, Washington and resided during his school years in the Dominican parish of Blessed Sacrament Priory. He attended school there and at Seattle Preparatory School. He attended college at Mt. Angel, Oregon and St. Mary’s college, California, entering the Order on August 14, 1951 at Kentfield, California. He made his profession one year later at Kentfield and received solemn vows at McKenzie Bridge, Oregon on August 15, 1955.
After his ordination on June 15, 1957 in San Francisco, he spent several years studying abroad at Fribourg and the Angelicum in Rome, receiving his lectorate in Sacred Theology from the latter institute. He returned to teach theology at St. Albert’s College and assume directorship of the cooperator brothers’ training program. A year later he moved with the cooperator brothers to Kentfield to institute a new program for the brothers which was to widen their possible apostolic work and perfect their formation in religious life. In 1964 he moved to Seattle where he spent one year teaching at Seattle University. He returned the following year to Kentfield to serve as sub-prior there and teach at Dominican College.
He was beloved by all for his humor, simplicity and humility. In 1968 he volunteered to work at the province’s mission in Mexico, and was appointed Vicar of Chiapas in May 1969. Once again his charm and simplicity won the love of the people. Before long he contracted a serious case of “valley fever” and after heroic efforts on the part of the sisters and doctors of the mission hospital, he was flown to San Antonio, Texas. He died at Santa Rosa hospital there on April 8, 1970. He is buried at St. Dominic’s cemetery, Benicia, California. Please pray for the repose of his soul.
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Date of Birth |
Date of Profession |
Date of Ordination |
Date of Death |
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May 12, 1931 |
August 14, 1951 |
June 15, 1957 |
April 8, 1970 |
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