Archive for March 2019
Why priests are fools…
We are fools…because we rather follow a humble carpenterthan follow the path of leaders encouraging immorality… We are fools…because we take the leadin calling for the end of killings… We are fools…because we say NO to killingsof more than 20,000 deaths… We are fools…because we are not afraideven with bullets or deaths… We are fools…because…
Read MoreOverseas Recoletos missionaries meet, share experiences
Provincial Curia, QUEZON CITY – In a rare opportunity, like the appearance of a Halley’s comet, some Filipino Recoletos friars assigned in foreign mission stations and who were either arriving for or returning from their hometown vacation have crossed their paths at the Provincial Curia towards the end of the second week of March. Fray…
Read MoreINVITATION: Despedida & Tribute to the Father General and Book Launching of Fr. Antonio’s Pointless Points to Ponder Not (vol. 2)
COMMUNION AND WORD (Recollection Material for May 2019)
The lamp that guides our steps on the road to communion is the Word of God. St. Augustine considered it his inseparable companion and his own joy. All text of the Word of God invites us to be able to say like St. Augustine and with St. Augustine: Vox tua gaudium meum! Your voice is…
Read MoreOAR Prior General pays second visit to Recoletos de Taiwan
Kaohsiung, TAIWAN – Rev. Fr. Miguel Miró Miró, OAR, Prior General of the Order of Augustinian Recollects made Taiwan his penultimate destination in his on-going fraternal visits to all the OAR communities in the Province of St. Ezekiel Moreno. The OAR Prior General arrived here at noon of March 17, 2019, accompanied by one member…
Read MoreLECTIO DIVINA: 3rd Sunday of Lent (C)
INVOKING THE HOLY SPIRIT We invoke the Holy Spirit using the words of St. Augustine. Come, Holy Spirit, by whom every devout soul, who believes in Christ is sanctified to become a citizen of the City of God! (en. Ps. 45:8) Come, Holt Spirit, grant that we receive the motions of God, put in us your flame, enlighten…
Read MorePrior General’s historical visit to Recoletos de Pangasinan
Urbiztondo, PANGASINAN – Buenos dias y bienvenido! That’s how we greeted with the usual Spanish the visiting Fray Miguel Miró, OAR, Prior General of the Order of Augustinian Recollects, that early morning of March 15, 2019. Together with one of his general councilors, Fray Raul Buhay, OAR, he arrived in this newly established Recollect community…
Read MoreFather General makes own version of ‘Tayo na sa Antipolo’
ANTIPOLO CITY – Early in the morning of March 11, the Prior General of the Order of Augustinian Recollects, Fr. Miguel Miró, OAR, together with Fr. Raul Buhay, OAR, a General Councilor and President of the General Secretariat of the Apostolate, made his own version of the popular song “Tayo na sa Antipolo” (“Let’s go…
Read MoreRain, Kariton ni Kiko add colors to Prior General’s visit to Recoletos de Provincialate
Provincial Curia, QUEZON CITY – Amid water crisis that affected Metro Manila for the past days, a heavy downpour in the early morning of March 15, a Saturday, providentially came, allaying the sweltering heat at least for a day when the OAR Prior General, Fray Miguel Miró, made his renewal visit to the community of…
Read MoreFather General feels loved, recharged at Casiciaco
BAGUIO CITY — This city may be cold, but the Father General certainly felt the warmth of fraternal love and Filipino hospitality during his recently concluded Visit of Renewal at Casiciaco Recoletos Seminary last March 13–14, 2019. The seminary was Fr. Miguel M. Miró, OAR’s third-to-the-last stop in his visit to all Philippine communities of…
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