Josenian civil engineering professor qualifies for MEXT, goes to Japan for post-grad studies

Written by Engr. Yuriy Sesican CEBU CITY–Engr. Varie John Orozco, an alumnus and part-time faculty of USJ-R Civil Engineering Department, qualified for the MEXT Scholarship of the Japanese government. MEXT stands for Monbukagakusho (Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology). This program is said to be the ‘toughest’ among all Japanese government-subsidized scholarship…

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Province receives six novices

Antipolo City, RIZAL—You are isolated, but not detached from the world. This was the message of the local Prior of St. Ezekiel Moreno Novitiate-Recoletos (SeMoNo-Re) in this city to the six members of Batch Martyrs who were formally received into the Novitiate Formation Year during the Mass earlier today, July 16, 2020. “The novitiate is…

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RST opens with new mode of learning

Mira-Nila Homes, QUEZON CITY—Recoletos School of Theology opened its horizon to Online Classes adopting to the new normal due to the dangers of CoViD 19 for the Academic Year 2020-2021. Prof. Mark Joseph T. Calano, PhD of Ateneo de Manila University conducted a seminar workshop on Learning Management System and on the Principles for Online…

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LECTIO DIVINA: XVI Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle A

Translated by Fray Hubert Dunstan Decena, OAR Mt. 13:24-43 A. Invoking the Holy Spirit. We invoke the Holy Spirit using the words of At. 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…

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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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RFC Covid19 Update

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…

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Fray 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…

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Reflections: 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…

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