Let us Pray for missionaries around the world

Let us Pray for missionaries around the world, but most specially for the great Spanish missionaries who journeyed with us in our 500 years of Christianity–to them our grateful hearts go. During my talk a week ago at the first CBCP-initiated dialogue between the Church and the government under BBM, I was blessed to have…

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LECTIO DIVINA: 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle C

Lk. 17:11 – 19. 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…

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Recollection Material – October 2022: SYNODALITY AND SOCIAL DIAKONIA

Lk. 10:29 – 37.           If we walk the road together (etymological meaning of synodality), then we serve together, i.e., we seek to fulfill the διακονία of love in community.  And this is an element we cannot be careless about in the measure that we go in depth on synodality.           The horizon of all…

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ARCORES International and Filipinas partners with USJ-R INFECOP for outreach program

CEBU CITY-On September 23, 2022, USJ-R through INFECOP and in partnership with ARCORES International and Filipinas conducted Project Tabang Sugbu: Phase 2 for the typhoon Odette victims of Olango Island, Lapu-lapu City, Cebu.  The project was composed of the following activities: distribution of ARCORES Bags of Hope (Educational Assistance), Value Formation on Stewardship of Creation,…

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LECTIO DIVINA: 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle C

LECTIO DIVINA 27th Sun. in Ord. Time C. Lk. 17:5 – 10. 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)…

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Pre-novices Engage with the Youth in Marian Vigil

URBIZTONDO, PANGASINAN- The Pre-novices participate in the Marian Youth Vigil 2022 (MYV) with the theme “Mary: She Listens, Contemplates and She goes,” held at Urbiztondo National Highschool last September 7-8, 2022. The six pre-novices of the Province shared to the delegates insights regarding the theme on a three-part talk replete with animations, songs, and audio…

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Francisco Javier Acero, new auxiliary bishop of Mexico

The Augustinian Recollect, of Spanish origin and nationalized Mexican, has been elected by Pope Francis as auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Mexico. Pope Francis has appointed the Spanish Augustinian Recollect Francisco Javier Acero Perez as the new auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Mexico. He has also been assigned the titular see of Sufasar.…

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