Join us in praying for the repose of the soul of DSPT alum, Fr. Tom Kraft, O.P. Fr. Tom was born and raised in Spokane, WA and after graduating from college, he worked in a volunteer program in the archdiocese of Seattle. He lived close to Blessed Sacrament, the Dominican parish there. After Mass one day, a Dominican asked him if he had ever considered becoming a Dominican priest. Although he did not know what it meant to be a Dominican at that time, he had felt the call to be a priest since grade school and had seriously considered entering the Franciscans while in college. Over the course of his year in Seattle, however, he was drawn to the Dominicans. After being accepted, he entered the novitiate in 1977, took vows in 1978, and was ordained a priest at the Oakland Cathedral in 1986 after earning his MDiv from DSPT.
Fr. Tom’s two primary areas of ministry for the Western Dominican Province were in campus ministry and the Dominican mission in Mexicali. He loved the Dominican life and preaching and felt that he was able to live the Dominican motto of contemplare et contemplate aliis tradere: to share with others the fruits of your contemplation.
