PAASCU RESURVEY TEAM VISITS UNO-R

Several Programs of the University of Negros Occidental – Recoletos were subjected to Philippine Accrediting Association of Schools, Colleges and Universities (PAASCU) accreditation/ re-accreditation last February 20 and 21, 2023. The programs under resurvey were Arts and Sciences (BS Psychology and BA Communication), Elementary and Secondary Education programs, Business Administration and Accountancy Programs, Civil Engineering,…

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Refuge and Resilience: An ARCORES Home Rehabilitation Project Series

After decades of raising eight children, she finally landed a job as maintenance personnel of Colegio de Sto. Tomas-Recoletos (CST-R) in San Carlos City, Philippines in 2011. Her job order was then contractual and was commissioned by the school Parents & Teachers Association (PTA). Then in 2020, after nearly ten years, she finally became a…

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A door to education and equality

The Augustinian Recollect missionaries of Sierra Leone have been attending a small boarding school since 2019 that allows 12 young people without resources to receive education and develop humanly. It has been several months since Alice Turay and Adamsay Kargbo left their homes and said goodbye to their families to face a unique opportunity. If…

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Thomasian President Condemns Hazing, Warns Thomasians Against Frat Violence

“Is that real brotherhood?” SAN CARLOS CITY, Neg. Occidental – Colegio de Sto. Tomas-Recoletos President Rev. Fr. Cristopher Maspara, OAR took to the pulpit to relate the dangers of hazing and fraternity violence and warn Thomasians during the First Friday Mass last March 3, 2023, with the college Thomasians in attendance. Fr. Maspara, who has…

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LECTIO DIVINA: 3rd Sunday of Lent, Cycle A

Jn. 4:5-42 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 that we receive the motions of…

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Recollection Material – March 2023 TOGETHER IN FRATERNITY

PHIL. 2:1-5 One of the first writers  of the Augustinian family, Jordan of Saxony, commented in his work Vitasfratrum (Lives of the Brothers) that St. Augustine had founded his religious Order following the idea of the community, or rather, the same author points out, on the idea of communion. In fact we, the Augustinian Recollects…

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LECTIO DIVINA: 2nd Sunday of Lent, Cycle A

Mt. 17:1-9. 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 that we receive the motions of God, put in us your…

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Formation Continues…

The Secretariat of Vocation and Initial Formation of the Province of St. Ezekiel Moreno relaunches its three-day program on the Formation of Formators with another batch of participants on February 23, 2023. What is the Program all about? The formation of formators is intrinsically connected to the essential deepening and dynamic formation of the candidates…

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