CAS holds general assembly
The College of Arts and Sciences held its General Assembly, June 27, 2018 at the University Auditorium. The said assembly was attended by the Dean, faculty and staff, and students of the college. After the opening formalities, Dean Annabee Claur, PhD gave the welcome address. Mr. Carlos Eduardo Legaspi, Jr, PhD, CAS alumnus 1991, gave…
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ANTIPOLO CITY- “You children should live up the different virtues and titles that you are assigned to for this Sta. Cruzan, you are the future of this place. This day I’ve noticed that you are not anymore carrying flowers unlike any other day that you are attending the Flores de Mayo catechism that you offer…
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Invitation: Simple Profession 2018
SARF Baguio Organizes First Communion
Baguio City — Twenty-three (23) children and young teens living around Casiciaco Recoletos Seminary received their first Holy Communion last May 13, Ascension Sunday, at the seminary chapel. Sr. Dorothy Joy Panelo, chairperson of the Social Apostolate of the Secular Augustinian Recollect Fraternity (SARF) – Baguio Chapter, said the first communicants, aged 9 to 14,…
Read MoreWhy and How do the Recollects Propagate Carmelite Devotion?
It is common knowledge that devotion to the Brown Scapular is inseparable with devotion to Our Lady of Mount Carmel. Everyone knows that it was to St. Simon Stock, who was Father General of the Carmelite Order, that the Blessed Mother appeared and entrusted the charge of spreading devotion to the Brown Scapular. In fact,…
Read MoreVirgen del Carmen de San Sebastian Re-enthroned
The Queen of San Sebastian Basilica — and of Quiapo — was once again re-enthroned at her rightful shrine during the closing ceremony of the 400th anniversary of the arrival of her first image to the country. The re-enthronement of the Our Lady of Mount Carmel at the Basilica, led by parish priest Fr. Antonio “Joy”…
Read MoreBrown Scapular: Sign of Our Belonging to God thru Mary
The Brown Scapular of the Our Lady of Mount Carmel is an outward sign that the Mother of God covers us with the mantle of her maternal protection because we belong to God through her. This is what Fr. Rommel Rubia, OAR, newly appointed Local Prior of the community of San Sebastian College-Recoletos Cavite, said…
Read MoreThe Brown Scapular and the AR Sisters: A Story of Fate and Faith
During his brief lecture on the history of the Carmelite devotion among the Augustinian Recollect friars in the Philippines at the Quirino Grandstand last May 4, historian Fr. Emil Quilatan, OAR mentioned in passing an interesting figure: Felipe Sonson. Sonson, a native of Macabebe, Pampanga, would have gone down in history as another obscure missionary…
Read MoreCarmel 400: Fluvial Procession and Salubong
The image of the Our Lady of Mount Carmel first arrived in the country through the waters four hundred years ago with the third batch of Augustinian Recollect missionaries. The image, a gift by the contemplative nuns of Mexico to the Augustinian Recollects, arrived in the country on May 4, 1618. It is but fitting,…
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