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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. Raphael Joseph Corcoran, OP
Fr. Raphael was born in Cordelia, California, which is about fifteen miles from Vallejo and was ministered by the Dominicans. He entered as a postulant at the age of seventeen. At this time he was finishing his preliminary studies so that he could study philosophy and theology. He entered the Novitiate after two years and after first profession was solemnly professed after four years. During his years of Novitiate and study he played baseball with the other Dominicans. One year St. Mary's College baseball team came to Benicia and the Dominicans defeated them.
After ordination he worked as a parish priest. Unfortunately he became seriously ill for a few years. After recovery, he ministered in a few of our parishes, before going on to teach English at Rosaryville, a College in Louisiana. He returned to California, but his health rapidly declined. He had a heart attack in 1933, and died in Pittsburg, California in 1936. He died at the age of fifty-six. He was remembered for his sense of humor and his love of Dominican community.
Photo: Rosaryville, where he taught for a year
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Date of Birth |
Date of Profession |
Date of Ordination |
Date of Death |
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December 12, 1879 |
October 10, 1899 |
June 10, 1904 |
May 2, 1936 |
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