Vocation Discernment
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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. Isaiah Mary Molano, OP
“The Lord called me from birth, from my mother’s womb he gave me my name” (Is 49:1) I was born in The City of Brotherly Love, Philadelphia, PA. When I was ten, my father received a job opportunity that made the family move to Fresno, CA.
After High School, I attended the University of California Riverside, majoring in Creative Writing. Within weeks of moving to Riverside, I found myself entrenched with the ins-and-outs of my second home, St Andrew’s Newman Center, the local Catholic Church. It is staffed by the Western Dominican Province. I also had a life outside the Newman Center. While at UCR, I worked closely with Shards: A Radio Experience, a half-hour radio show on campus. I would like to be a campus minister and work within mass media, writing fiction and screenplays.
Currently, I am studying to obtain a Masters in Divinity at the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology in Berkeley, CA, and on a year of study in Washington, D.C. at the Dominican House of Studies. [updated 1/16/09]
Mass: A mysterious sacrifice (Part 1)
The priesthood is an offering to God — a sacrifice (Part 2)
Offering Your Life to God — Consecrated religious & the lay faithful (Part 3)
by Rev. Brother Isaiah Molano, OP
Photos
2009 diaconate ordination slideshow, Washington, D.C. with our Eastern Province brothers.
2009 diaconate ordination
2009 diaconate ordination
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