Vocation Inquiry

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Join us for a Come and See Weekend from
4pm Friday,
March 9, 2012
until
1pm Sunday
March 11, 2012
at The House of Studies in Oakland, CA.
St. Albert Priory
5890 Birch Court
Oakland, CA 94618
Vocation Office
Western Dominican Province
5890 Birch Court
Oakland, CA 94618-1626
(510)-596-1821
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The Call
Vocations find their true meaning in Christ

Three young men share their stories as they are just days away from receiving an irreversible grace of being ordained priests. They speak about how they were influenced by others and how they could not avoid the call from God to be men who serve others.
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Keeping the Light Burning

Your prayers, service and donations help us to keep the flame of Dominican Vocations bright in the Western United States. Please do consider making a regular contribution for future preachers for the salvation of souls.
Saint Jude Shrine
Shrine of
St. Jude Thaddeus
2390 Bush Street
P.O. Box 15368
San Francisco
California 94115-0368
415-931-5919
www.stjude-shrine.org
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Christmas Scenes - Part Eight - LA, Anchorage and Las Vegas
Our Community in Anchorage has had a very white winter. Some parts of the area have had over sixteen feet of snow. Fortunately for Holy Family Cathedral the snow does not seem to have gotten that deep and the liturgical and ministerial life continues unbroken.
Our community in Los Angeles has already graced our site. Their creche formed the banner during the Octave of Christmas. Here we see a more complete view of that creche.
The Las Vegas ministry at the University erected this creche, which could be seen from the outside as well as from the interior of the Newman Center.

The alternate presentation is this picture of a smaller creche. Notice that the "stable" seems the same size in both.
DSPT-College of Fellows
Third Annual
Convocation of the College of Fellows
Saturday, January 28, 1:30 - 4:30 pm,
DSPT, 2301 Vine Street, Berkeley, CA
Presentations on "Catholic Imagination and Contemporary Culture" by DSPT Fellows, Congressman Dan Lungren, Former Ambassador Ray Flynn, Barbara Elliott, Judge John T. Noonan, Jr. Other Fellows participating: Mary Cunningham Agee, Ron Austin, Gil Bailie, André Delbecq, Bob Flint, Dana Gioia, Velma Richmond and Kevin Starr.
RSVP to mzueger@dspt.edu or (510) 883-2086
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Church Unity
POSITIVE SIGNS OF
FRATERNITY ON ECUMENICAL JOURNEY
VATICAN CITY, 26 JAN 2012 (VIS) - Yesterday evening in the Roman basilica of St. Paul's Outside-the-Walls, the Holy Father presided at the celebration of second Vespers for the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul. The celebration, which marked the end of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, was attended by representatives from other Churches including the Orthodox Church of Greece, the Ecumenical Patriarchate, the Anglican Communion and the Patriarchates of Moscow and Romania.
Called to Proclaim
ALL CHRISTIANS HAVE THE DUTY
TO ANNOUNCE THE GOSPEL
VATICAN CITY, 25 JAN 2012 (VIS) - Made public today was the Pope's Message for World Mission Day, which falls this year on Sunday 21 October. The theme of the document is: "Called to radiate the word of truth". Extracts of the message are given below.
Three Sisters as seen from St. Benedict Lodge Property,
McKenzie Bridge, Oregon
Mission West Newsletter
The Mission West Newsletter helps to keep your finger on the pulse of the province.
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Mission West:
Campaign for Dominican Friars
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Mission West: Campaign for Dominican Friars is a capital campaign which will raise critical funds to support our mission of evangelization and preaching the gospel. It all begins by forming and educating our novices and student brothers to become excellent priests and brothers. We must also care for our aging friars in their retirement. This is why our new, three-year effort to raise $15 million is subtitled Campaign for Dominican Friars.
Confraternity of the Most Holy Rosary
Join the Rosary Confraternity, a world-wide movement of prayer for peace.
Learn about the rosary and Mary by visiting the Rosary Center, home of the Rosary Confraternity and a souce for many spiritual blessings.
Building A Faithful Church
Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology - Tradition Today
At DSPT we are a community engaged in study that is rooted in tradition and provides answers to today's challenges.
"Undoubtedly one of the strengths of the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology is the ability it fosters in its students to dialogue, on the intellectual level, with contemporary society ....The faculty is both academically prepared and doctrinally sound."
- 2008 report of the Sacred Congregation for Catholic Education.




