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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. Bryan Louis Kromholtz, OP
Fr. Bryan Kromholtz, the youngest of four children, was born and raised in a Catholic family in Spokane, Washington. He attended Catholic schools in Spokane, graduating from Gonzaga University in 1988 with a bachelor degree in electrical engineering. He was working as an engineer in Seattle when he discerned that he had a vocation to the priesthood and religious life. He entered the Western Dominican Province in 1992, making his solemn profession in 1998. In the year 2000, Fr. Bryan was ordained to the ministerial priesthood, graduating from the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology with the degree of Master of Divinity, and from the Graduate Theological Union at Berkeley with the degree of Master of Arts in Theology. He served for two years as a parish priest at Holy Family Cathedral in Anchorage, Alaska, before beginning doctoral studies in Fribourg, Switzerland. In 2008, he defended his dissertation on the time of the resurrection of the dead according to St. Thomas Aquinas. Since September of that year, he has been a professor of theology at the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology at Berkeley, teaching courses in theological method, the theology of the sacraments, the theology of the human person, and eschatology. [updated: 7-21-2009]
On the Last Day: The Time of the Resurrection of the Dead according to Thomas Aquinas. This book can be purchased at the Rosary Center.
The Time of Resurrection
Video ID: 29125096
Description: Thomas Aquinas and Current Ideas on the Time of the Resurrection
Interview with Fr. Benedict Groeschel,
Dominican of Philosophy and Theology, Assistant Professor of Theology
“Resurrection in Death in the Theology of Karl Rahner and Hans Urs von Balthasar”, Thesis and Abstract (Graduate Theological Union, 2002)
Voices of the Western Dominican Province: AN INTERVIEW WITH REV. BR. BRYAN KROMHOLTZ, O.P., on his recent ordination to the Deaconate, May 1999
