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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. Edward Leo Krasevac, OP
Born in the gold country of Northern California, I traveled widely in the United States and Europe as the son of a career Air Force father. Back to California for high school and college (Santa Clara University, major in philosophy), I entered the Dominican novitiate at St. Albert's Priory in 1971 and was ordained in 1977. During my initial four year assignment at St. Dominic's Priory and Parish in San Francisco, I began doctoral studies in theology at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, where I received my Ph.D. in 1986. Since 1985, I have been on the regular faculty of the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology at the GTU, and lived in the Dominican Community of St. Thomas Aquinas at the DSPT from 1981 until 1997. Since that time I have been in residence with the Dominican community at Most Holy Rosary Church in Antioch.
My great love is teaching, particularly teaching students how to think theologically, and learning myself how to see things from new perspectives by virtue of presenting ideas in class and thinking through issues with my students. In my classes in fundamental moral theology I deal with the basic questions of human life, such as obligation, action, freedom and responsibility; in my Christology classes I address the important classical and contemporary questions regarding Jesus Christ, from the early dogmatic development of Patristic Christology to the modern attempts to construct a historical Christology. My research interests include the theological presuppositions of the modern "quests" for the historical Jesus, as well as such issues as the relation of will and intellect in the dynamic of human freedom, and the "indirectly voluntary," and its relation to the principle of double effect (I argue that traditional developments of the principle of double effect have too often compromised some of the basic insights of Aquinas' notion of the indirectly voluntary, particularly that we may be only indirectly responsible for certain actions that much of the recent theological tradition has been too quick to characterize as directly voluntary).
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2008 (600dpi) | DSPT Photo
Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology biography
"Christology from Above and Christology from Below," The Thomist (April 1987) Vol. 51.