A Maritime Pilgrimage (Part 2)
Cuyo and Agutaya 17 May, Wednesday At 2 am, I was awake. The night was absolutely still, there were a few stars. Prayed the rosary from the balcony of our common room, facing, across the courtyard below, an image of the Crucified Jesus. Four of us took an early morning dip, while Fr. Notnot was…
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A Maritime Pilgrimage (Part 1)
Journal of a pilgrimage to Recollect legacy in Palawan, 15 -19 May Deliver us from our wretched wanderings, our miserable mistakes, and establish us in Your way and comfort us, and say: Run, I”ll carry you, yes, and there also will I carry you” (St. Augustine, Conf., 6,26) Nota Previa: Almost a decade ago, in…
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Saving San Sebastian Basilica, the Philippines’ all-steel church
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Harold Pacaña was riding on a motorcycle with his father on the evening of May 29 when he shouted for joy. He received a text message saying that he and two of his classmates topped the government’s licensure examination for the accountancy program. “I feel I was in cloud nine,” Pacaña, who graduated summa cum…
Read MoreInvitation: Simple Profession 2017
Fray Jay-Jasper P. Jamelo (E.B. Magalona, Negros Occidental) Fray Jovanie H. Siesmundo (Dagohoy, Bohol) Fray Joshua F. Olaivar (Jagna, Bohol) Fray Leonardo II I. Queaño (Brook’s Point, Palawan) Fray Ricky John A. Austria (Tiwi, Albay) Fray Ivan C. Cuison (Baguio City) Fray Jhyryx Vincent F. Gamulo (Bayawan City, Negros Oriental) Fray Ivan Rhey G. Mislang…
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Mira-Nila Homes, Quezon City – May 28, 2016, seventeen students of Recoletos School of Theology (RST) were invested with the degrees in Bachelor of Sacred Theology and Masters of Arts in Theology. Seven Augustinian Recollects graduated from this batch. The first part of the program was the Baccalaureate Mass that was held in the parish…
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Mira-Nila Homes, Quezon City – May 27, 2017, the closing of the Academic Year, 2016-2017, at Recoletos School of Theology (RST) was highlighted with the graduation of twenty-four students. From this batch, seven Augustinian Recollect friars received the degree in Bachelor in Sacred Theology, and eight received the degree in Master of Arts in Theology.…
Read MoreMessage Of His Holiness Pope Francis for The 51st World Communications Day
“Fear not, for I am with you” (Is 43:5): Communicating Hope and Trust in our Time Access to the media – thanks to technological progress – makes it possible for countless people to share news instantly and spread it widely. That news may be good or bad, true or false. The early Christians compared the…
Read MoreFray Tonying meets RCI
MANILA, PHILIPPINES — General Councilor and Head of the Commission on Communications, Fray Antonio “Tonying” Carrón, OAR, is here in the Philippines for the very first time. Fray Tonying met some members and collaborators of the commission in San Sebastian College-Recoletos, Manila, last May 12, 2017. After a thorough sharing of successes and failures in…
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