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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. Robert William Feehan, OP
William Feehan was born in San Francisco in 1899 and baptized in Sacred Heart Church in the year 1900. He went through high school and college in San Jose and Santa Clara and went to Saint Patrick's Seminary for a little while. Before he entered he was in banking. He did most of his formation in the Eastern Dominican Province at Saint Joseph in Somerset, Ohio, Saint Rose in Kentucky, and River Forest in Illinois. From there he went to the Angelicum in Rome, and finished off his studies in Benicia, California. After ordination he stayed in Benicia until 1931 when he went to St. Dominic's in San Francisco. He was always in parishes from Antioch, California to Portland, Oregon. While in Portland, he connected with the youth and played baseball and skied. He spent most of his life at Pittsburg, California and Vallejo, California. His funeral was so large that they had to have two funeral masses for him. May God reward him for his life of ministry in service of God's people.
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Date of Birth |
Date of Profession |
Date of Ordination |
Date of Death |
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December 17, 1899 |
September 23, 1924 |
June 15, 1929 |
April 19, 1963 |
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