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Keeping the Light Shining Bright
Our Program of Formation involves eight years of academic and ministerial training. Throughout all that time our student friars in formation depend completely on the generosity of others and so keep our benefactors in particular at the center of our prayer life. Pleased do ad your own regular donation to our continuing need. We thank you now and will continue to thank you with our prayers.
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Western Dominican Province
5890 Birch Court
Oakland, CA 94618-1626
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Our Dominican School
The Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, CA offers Masters and other degree and certificate programs rooted in the tradition of the Dominican order and our brother, St. Thomas Aquinas. Faithful to the teaching of Holy Mother, the Church, our school prepares not only young men studying for the priesthood, but also other men and women who will be the leaders of local communities of faith. Please do join in supporting this essential ministry of the Western Dominican Province.
2003 Novices
St. Dominic's Priory is delighted to announce the Novice Class of 2003. These eight men have come from various walks of life, but all have sought to live and serve the Lord in the tradition of St. Dominic De Guzman. Please pray for them as they spend one year dedicated to deeper prayer as they learn to live the Dominican life.
"May the name of the God be hallowed in you that you may joyfully drink from the wounds of Christ! May divine love, true peace, deep humility flowing from the faithful heart of Jesus, and joyful forgetfulness of self in the company of the most dear Son of God and of the Virgin Mary be yours. This is my "Lord's Prayer" for bidding you farewell in Christ Jesus.
My little ones, may you experience such a spirit in your good works and be such a work before God. Although your works may be many, may you be one in heart. Grace is given now and glory in eternity in greater abundance for the soul which is entrusted to the hands of God than for the soul which is outwardly perfect, however great and holy it may appear.
Cultivate all the virtues you can, yet do not place your confidence in them, but in Christ alone...."
- Blessed Henry Suso
Proprium Officiorum Ordinis Praedicatorum
 Br. John Paul Mary Phan Saint Andrew Church Oklahoma City, OK (Member of Vietnamese Vicariate Canada) |
 Br. Mark Francis Manzano St. Peter & St. Paul Church (Alta Loma) Fontana, CA |
 Br. Joseph Denzel St. Victor Church San Jose, CA |
 Br. Gabriel Mary Castillo St. Mary's by the Sea Church (Huntington Beach) Santa Ana, CA |
 Br. David Salvato Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception Denver, CO |
 Br. Boniface Willard Sacred Heart Catholic Church Emmett, ID |
 Br. Matthew Augustine Miller St. Joseph Church Vancouver, WA |
 Br. Juan Diego Silva Most Holy Trinity Church Phoenix, AZ |
