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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. Raymond Leo Lewis, OP
Raymond Lewis was born in San Francisco in 1897 and baptized at St. Dominic's Church. He attended Sacred Heart Convent school and then Sacred Heart College prep and Saint Ignatius, all in San Francisco. After one year at St. Mary's College in Oakland he entered the novitiate and was simply professed in 1918. He was the third and last Lewis brother to enter the Western Dominican Province. After six years of study in Springfield, Kentucky and Washington, DC, he was ordained by Archbishop E.J. Hanna in Menlo Park, California just before Christmas 1924.
His first assignment was in the city of his childhood, in the parish where he was baptized: St. Dominic's, San Francisco. In fact, his first six assignments were all to various St. Dominic's: San Francisco, Benicia, Eagle Rock, San Francisco, Eagle Rock and San Francisco. He became pastor of St. Mary Magdalen's in Berkeley in 1938. In 1943 he was appointed Director of the Third Order which he continued in various places for the next ten years. In 1954 he began his final assignment, at St. Dominic's in Eagle Rock. He died at 7:15 am on July 12, 1969 of cancer at Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital.
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Date of Birth |
Date of Profession |
Date of Ordination |
Date of Death |
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February 13, 1897 |
September 22, 1918 |
December 20, 1924 |
July 12, 1969 |
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