Message of the Prior General for Christmas 2019
Listen in the silence…Humbly open your heart!Let us approach the Crib: Look at the stars, the mountains.Listen to the murmur of the river water.An angel shines in the night.Shepherds, kings who come from afar,Poor and simple people of yesterday and today.They’re all on their way to the portal.Behold Mary and Joseph,Adore the Child in the…
Read MoreRECOLLECTION FOR JANUARY: Jesus and the Sinful Woman
Translated by Fray Hubert Dunstan Decena, OAR Lk. 7:36-50. Our recollections for the year 2020 will move around the theme proposed by our Prior General and his Council for this year: “We are prophets of the Kingdom. Poor, social projects, periphery.” In each one of the recollections, in addition to the usual biblical and Augustinian…
Read More4th Sunday of Advent, Cycle A
Is 7:10-14; Rom 1:1-7; Mt 1:18-24 Ahaz was king of Judah from 735-715 B.C., and Isaiah was then the major prophet alive. Judah was being attacked by the kings of Aram and of Israel and Ahaz was very afraid. Isaiah told him not to fear and the Lord will give him a sign of his…
Read MoreLECTIO DIVINA: 4th Sunday of Advent, Cycle A
Translated by Fray Hubert Dunstan Decena, OAR Mt. 1:18-24 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 MorePH Recoletos schools benchmark on USJ-R guidance counselling program
CEBU CITY–Guidance personnel from four sister schools in the Philippines of the University of San Jose-Recoletos (USJ-R) underwent a two-day upskilling program on December 5 and 6, 2019. This activity aims to help the guidance personnel get a better grasp of their work, especially those who are new in the position. On the first day, USJ-R invited…
Read More"We wish you a Merry Christmas" from children of Sierra Leone, West Africa
Credits to Fray Jose Prudencio Castillo, OAR Click the link to view the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AavFwC9rhD0
Read MoreInvitation: Episcopal Ordination of Fray Jesús Maria López Mauleón, OAR
3rd Sunday of Advent, Cycle A
Is 35:1-6a, 10; Jas 5:7-10; Mt 11:2-11 The 3rd Sun of Advent is known by its entrance antiphon that exhorts us to “rejoice,” in Latin Gaudete; and the reason it gives is: “The Lord is near.” As the Gospel narrates, John is already in jail and sends a delegation to Jesus to inquire, not for…
Read MoreLECTIO DIVINA: 3rd Sunday of Advent, Cycle A
Translated by Fray Hubert Dunstan Decena, OAR Mt. 11:2-11 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…
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