Province of St. Nicholas of Tolentine: 400 years of Consecrated Life and Missionary History
The Province of St. Nicholas of Tolentine of the Order of Augustinian Recollects will be 400 years old in November 2021. The 4th Centennial celebration will take place from September 10, 2020 to December 5, 2021. The Centennial Celebration Commission had its second meeting on the 25th of June 2020. The 8 members are: Fray Rafael…
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Mira Nila Homes, QUEZON CITY–The City Government, through Barangay Pasong Tamo, extended their program on sanitizing and disinfecting infrastructures and vicinities to Recoletos Formation Center, Recoletos School of Theology, and Our Lady of Consolation Parish. The said activity was conducted twice already (June 16 and 22, 2020) to secure public health and safety of the…
Read MoreFray Walthrode Conde is 60 years in the Order
Bacolod City, NEGROS OCCIDENTAL–Fray Walthrode Conde, OAR turns 60 as a Religious of the Order of Augustinian Recollects (OAR) on July 9, 2020. He is from Kauswagan, Lanao del Norte. Today, he holds the title as the eldest among the members of the OAR Province of St. Ezekiel Moreno. He finished his Elementary education at…
Read MoreReflections: 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle A
Is 55:10-11; Rom. 8:18-23; Mt. 13:1-23. Our Gospel today is usually called “The Parable of the Sower.” And yet the sower is mentioned only at the beginning: ‘A sower went out to sow’ and not spoken of again. What is the concern of the parable? It is not the sower but the kinds of soil…
Read MoreLECTIO DIVINA: XV Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle A
Translated by Fray Hubert Dunstan Decena, OAR Mt. 13:1-23 A. 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, Holy Spirit, grant…
Read MoreReflections: 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle A
Zech. 9:9-10; Rom. 8:9, 11-13; Mt. 11: 25-30 In our Gospel passage today Jesus speaks to God the Father in second person as a Son speaks to his Father. He praises God that he has revealed the mystery of salvation not to those who considered themselves learned about God’s Law i.e., to the Scribes and…
Read MoreResumen AR 255 29 de Junio de 2020
Invitation: Profesión Solemne (Provincia de Sto. Tomas de Villanueva)
JULY 2020 RECOLLECTION: The Paralytic at the Pool of Bethesda, The Abandoned Sick People
Translated by Fray Hubert Dunstan Decena, OAR Jn. 5:1-9. The crisis of COVID 19 has manifested, among other things, the fragility of the human being, his transitory nature and the boundaries of his existence. In a Promethean era like ours, an insignificant virus has brought to its knees the wisdom of a science that considers…
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