The newly vested Dominicans stand during their May
31 ordination ceremony. They are, from left, Father Dominic DeMaio, Father
Augustine Highlander, Father Dismas Sayre, and Father James Moore.
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Four Dominicans ordained to priesthood
by Bishop Allen Vignerone
The newly ordained priests receive the blessing of their fellow Dominicans
during the ordination ceremony at St. Dominic Church in San Francisco.
The Dominicans first arrived in the Bay Area in 1851. San Francisco’s
first archbishop, Joseph Alemany, was a Dominican. |
By Voice staff
Oakland Bishop Allen Vigneron ordained four Dominicans
to the priesthood, May 31, at St. Dominic Church in San Francisco.
Members of the Western Dominican Province, the four new priests had completed
eight years of formation, including study at the Dominican School of Philosophy
and Theology in Berkeley while living at St. Albert’s Priory in
Oakland.
One of the new priests, Father Dismas Sayre, 40, will be serving as parochial
vicar at Holy Rosary Parish in Antioch. A native of Puerto Rico, he grew
up in Pittsburg, Pennsy-lvania. He served in the U.S. Navy and first met
the Dominicans at the Newman Center at the University of Utah.
Newly ordained Father Dominic DeMaio, 31, joined the Dominicans after
graduating from the University of Oregon. A native of Corvallis, Oregon,
he will be serving at Holy Family Cathedral in Anchorage, Alaska.
Father Augustine Highlander, 31, became a Catholic during his sophomore
year at Thomas Aquinas College where he studied in their Great Books program.
His first assignment is to St. Thomas More University Parish at the University
of Oregon.
Father James Moore, 31, is an accomplished organist who earned a master’s
degree in music from Notre Dame University where he was an assistant for
the liturgical choir. He has been assigned to St. Thomas More University
Parish at the University of Arizona.
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