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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. Reginald John Mitchell, OP
John Mitchell was born on June 30, 1904 in Ellensburg, Washington and attended the local grammar and high schools of that city. He attended St. Mary's College in California and St. Martin's College at Lacey, Washington. He received the habit for the province of the Holy Name at St. Rose, Kentucky on September 8, 1925 and made his first profession there one year later. His final vows were professed at Benicia on September 10, 1929.
Father Mitchell was sent abroad for further education, spending one year at the Angelicum in Rome and three years at Blackfriars, Oxford, England. He was ordained at Oxford on May 30, 1931 and received a lectorate in Sacred Theology there in 1933. He returned to serve as professor and Master of Students for two years at St. Albert's College, Oakland.
He suffered from poor health most of his life, and spent the remainder of his years in convalescence and light duties. He was assigned to Antioch, Seattle, and Benicia. In 1949 he moved to Kentfield where he served many years as procurator and sacristan. His last year was spent with his sister in Ellensburg where he received good care after recuperating from several heart attacks. He died at St. Elizabeth's hospital in Yakima, Washington on January 18, 1970. He is buried at St. Dominic's cemetery, Benicia, California.
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Date of Birth |
Date of Profession |
Date of Ordination |
Date of Death |
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June 30, 1904 |
September 9, 1926 |
May 30, 1931 |
January 18, 1970 |
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