Bahay Lingkod-Recoletos Antipolo City

April 11-15, 1994          

First Vicarial Congress held in Baguio City whose 8th recommendation called for the creation of the Pre-Novitiate Program which would run after college.

March 3, 1997                

Approval of the Pre-novitiate level, “focused on the human and affective integration of the candidates’ philosophical maturation and spiritual growth in divine realities.”

May 1, 1997                  

Start of Pre-Novitiate Program, but with academic tie-up with CARES, Baguio as latter’s fifth year.

March 5, 1998                

Housed in the same novitiate building, the first batch, composed of ten candidates, culminated their program.

March 2007                    

Academic tie-up with Baguio ended as the latter’s reverted four-year curriculum had already taken effect.

June 19, 2007                  

The Bahay Lingkod-Recoletos, Formerly a one-storey building within the novitiate compound and later refurbished, was blessed and inauguration by Fr. Lauro Larlar.

February 2008                

End of the 10th month Pre-Novitiate program-observed for the first time –which since then would start on May 1 for a month-long exposure in Alfonso, Cavite.

Pre-Novitiate Director

1997       Alberto Avanzado

1998       Regino Bangcaya

1999       Nicolas Salamanca

2000       Loreto Cesar Dacanay

2002       Corvin Maturan