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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. Joseph Mary Sergott, OP
Fr. Joseph Sergott, OP is the pastor of St. Thomas More Newman Center in Eugene, Oregon. As a Catholic campus ministry, the Newman Center serves the University of Oregon and higher education. Fr. Joseph is a catholic priest in the Dominican Order, a religious order of men in the Catholic Church.
He was born and raised in Livonia, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. When he was 19, he moved to Los Angeles, where he began working for Hughes Aircraft as a microwave technician. While at Hughes, he built and tested antennae sections of commercial satellites. He entered the Dominican Order in 1988, where he began his studies for the priesthood. He received his B.A. in Philosophy at the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology (DSPT) in Berkeley. During the 1992-93 academic year, he did his residency here in Eugene at the Newman Center. He later completed his studies by receiving an M.Div. and an M.A. in Theology at the DSPT, and was ordained a priest in 1996.
Since he was ordained, Fr. Joseph has served in various capacities and in various ministries. Prior to coming to Eugene in August of 2006, he served in Antioch, CA as an associate pastor, in Anchorage, AK as pastor of the cathedral, in San Francisco as prior of the novitiate of the Western Dominican Province, and in Oakland, CA as vicar provincial of the Western Province. Having had a variety of experiences in his twelve years in ministry, Fr. Joseph is excited to be working in campus ministry with students and faculty of the U of O. One of the things that has always driven Fr. Joseph is the opportunity to share his faith with others and to accompany them in their walk of faith.
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