Archive for 2018
Recoletos de Indonesia starts adjustment period; Father Provi reports visit
Provincial Curia, QUEZON CITY – A week before those natural disasters that wreaked havoc in the Indonesian island of Sulawesi hit the headlines, the Recoletos missionaries were already starting to acclimatize themselves to the routine of their new environment in Pontianak, at the extreme west of the island of Kalimantan (Borneo). Makassar Strait, a waterway…
Read MoreAR and OAR formands take Licensure Examination for Teachers
QUEZON CITY—Pursuant to the Republic Act # 7836, otherwise known as “Philippine Teachers Professionalization Act of 1994,” and to accomplish the requirement to acquire license for future teachers and school administrators in the Augustinian Recollect Educational Institutions, thirteen simply professed Augustinian Recollect friars and seven temporarily professed Augustinian Recollect sisters took the Licensure Examination for…
Read MoreSebastinian presents Research in Europe
Cavite City – “Be a GOAL digger, I am a PROUD Sebastinian!” said Marilex R. Llave, a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science alumna, batch 2004 of San Sebastian College-Recoletos de Cavite after she presented her research paper entitled “Drivers of Business Intelligence-Based Value Creation: The Experts’ View” at the Ionian University, Corfu, Greece. Llave…
Read MoreUSJ-R SHS champions Speak Up X: Visayas Schools Debate Championship
CEBU CITY – Speak Up X: Visayas Schools Debate Championship is a regional debate tournament hosted by the University of the Philippines-Cebu Lantugi Debate Society. On its 10th year, the tournament was dedicated to the legacy of Samantha Tornilla, one of the pioneers who spread the culture of debating in the Visayas. USJ-R SHS A,…
Read MoreUSJ-R to host English Language Fellow Program
CEBU CITY—U.S. Department of State has selected USJ-R as one of the three universities in the Philippines to host a 10-month English Language Fellow (EL Fellow) Program. English Language Fellow representative Ms. Taraji Belgacem signed the Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with USJ-R represented by the president, Fr. Christopher Maspara, OAR, on September 17, 2018 in…
Read MoreLiving the life of Jesus
26th Sunday in Ordinary Time | Mk 9:38-43; 45; 47-48 30 September 2018 Reflection: Our Readings this Sunday invite us to see the wonders of God’s ways. Our attitude is always to segregate things according to how things work, we can easily compartmentalize things. God is a God of unity and of harmony. He gives…
Read MoreIn the name of Jesus
26th Sunday in Ordinary Time | Cycle B Nm. 11:25-29; Jas. 5:1-6; Mk. 9:38-43, 45, 47-48. Shortly after Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt, he met his father-in-law Jethro who rejoiced in the Lord for this great gift of the Exodus. Later Jethro observed that Moses was occupied all day settling the disputes among the people. He…
Read MoreSSC-R alumnus as new Associate Justice
MANILA—San Sebastian College-Recoletos of Manila, proudly congratulates Hon. Jose C. Reyes, Jr., newly appointed Supreme Court Associate Justice. Associate Justice Reyes has successfully carried forward the red and gold colors of his Alma Mater, SSC-R Manila, when he made it to the Supreme Court as one of its Associate Justices, the highest aspiration that every…
Read MoreFides et Ratio colloquium held
Baguio City—With either one of them missing, “both faith and reason would become impoverished.” This was how Prof. Mark Joseph Calano summed up the contents of the papal encyclical “Fides et Ratio” (Faith and Reason) during a lecture he delivered at Casiciaco Recoletos Seminary mini-theater last Sept. 14, 2018. “Faith and reason are needed together,”…
Read MoreARCORES-FILIPINAS spearheads assistance-giving to landslide victims
CEBU CITY—The communities in Naga City, Cebu prior to the devastating landslide protested the quarrying operations and launched a coordinated action against quarry operations in the said city during the opening of the Season of Creation last September 1, 2018. Meanwhile, ARCORES – Filipinas which is a convenor of Pusyon Kinaiyahan, a grassroots environmental group…
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