Vocation Discernment
Are you being called to become a priest or brother?
Click here, and discover what it means to become a preacher of truth!
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. Carl Francis Schlichte, OP
Fr. Carl Schlichte was born on June 10, 1970. He met the Dominicans as a junior at De La Salle High School in Concord, CA through the chaplain who was a Dominican. He attended St. Mary's College of California for two years, where he studied in the great books (Integral) program. He made first profession on September 14, 1991, was ordained a deacon in the Crypt Church of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC in January 1997 and was ordained a priest on May 29, 1998. His ministries during formation including Eucharistic ministry to the homebound, assisting at and directing retreats, and telephone counseling for a suicide prevention/crisis intervention service. During his last years of formation, he learned Russian for the possibility of serving in the Order’s ministries in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
Fr. Carl has served at St. Catherine's Newman Center in Salt Lake City (as a Residency student), St. Mary's Church in Piscataway, MD (immediately before and after ordination to the diaconate), St. Dominic's Church in San Francisco (as a deacon), St. Dominic's Church in Los Angeles, (and simultaneously Catholic chaplain at Occidental College), Holy Rosary Church in Antioch, CA, the Catholic Community at Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA and briefly as pastor of St. Thomas More University Parish (Newman Center) in Eugene, OR. He currently served as prior of Holy Rosary Priory in Portland, OR and currently serves at the Catholic Community at Stanford. [updated: November 11, 2009]
