Three young Recollects embark on new mission
QUEZON CITY – Pursuant to its Life and Mission Project (LAMP) on mission apostolate, the St. Ezekiel Moreno Province recently sent three young priests to two foreign mission stations of the Order: Brazil and Sierra Leone. Fray Roderick Deguit, the former parish priest of the Parish of Our Lady of the Abandoned in Valencia, Negros…
Read MoreFoundations laid for CEAR-Filipinas
QUEZON CITY – The eighth Center will soon rise in the Philippines! This will be a new addition to the network of Centers for Augustinian Recollect Spirituality (or RedCEAR as its Spanish acronym, where CEAR stands for Centro de Espiritualidad Agustino Recoleta). The first seven are scattered in the Spanish-speaking part of the Order: CEAR-Costa…
Read MoreFormators gather for ‘In Imum Cordis’ Second Edition
Rome, ITALY–About thirty Augustinian Recollect religious, responsible for some of the formative stages, participate in the second edition of the Training School ‘In Imum Cordis’, organized by the General Secretariat of Spirituality and Formation, this time in Rome. The objective is to study how the Church today poses important challenges and how these challenges must be…
Read MoreARCORES-Filipinas members take bold commitment for the environment
Contributed by: Englevert Reyes, Joanna de Catalina, and Jessica Magallon-Avenido CEBU CITY–Since the official constitution of ARCORES as an international solidarity network among the Augustinian Recollects in 22 countries last year, ARCORES Filipinas has intensified its relevance and presence in the Philippines by launching the Recoletos Heart Solidarity Campaign on February 5-6, 2020. Reviving the…
Read MoreAlto Xingu-Tucumã Prelature receives its Augustinian Recollect Bishop
Bishop Jesús María López Mauleón, OAR took possession of the newly created Episcopal See in the Amazonian territory in Brazil. BRAZIL–The new Augustinian Recollect Bishop, Most Rev. Jesús María López Mauleón, DD, OAR, already worked in the prelature that has been entrusted to him in the Amazonian territory. The bishop who is of Navarrese origin, took…
Read MoreLECTIO DIVINA: VI Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle A
Translated by Fray Hubert Dunstan Decena, OAR Mt. 5:17-37. 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 MoreObituary: Sr. Celerina C. Hifarva, AR
Let us pray for the eternal repose of the soul of SR. CELERINA C. HIFARVA who died at past 3:00 P.M. on February 9, 2020 at the Dumaguete Medical Center.
Read MoreInvitation: 95th Fiesta in honor of Sto. Cristo Divino Tesoro de Urbiztondo
Six SHS students win National Research tilt
by Mr. Jude Xerxes Herbolario, RMT, LPT QUEZON CITY–Six Grade 12 students from the University of Negros Occidental – Recoletos Integrated School (UNO-R IS) emerged as champions in their respective categories during the Research Fair (RF) 2020 Research Competition held at the University of the Philippines – Diliman, January 31 to February 1. STEM-Medicine and…
Read MoreScience and Research in Blue and Gold
by Mr. Jude Xerxes Herbolario, RMT, LPT QUEZON CITY–Providence smiled on six young souls from the University of Negros Occidental – Recoletos Integrated School (UNO-R IS) four months after they clicked “submit,” on the first day of February, when their names were called onstage to receive one of the most coveted student research awards in…
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