Invitation: Presbyteral Ordination (Province of Sto. Tomas de Villanueva)
LECTIO DIVINA: XXVI Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle A
Translated by Fray Dunstan Huberto Decena, OAR Mt. 21:28-32. 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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Reflection: 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time,Cycle A
Is. 55:6-9; Phil 1:20-24, 27; Mt. 20:1-16a. This parable speaks of the missionary function of the Church. The earliest to the called into the kingdom of God was Israel. From the supposed era of Abraham in the 1500 B.C. God taught Israel how to work in his vineyard, to serve him as the one true…
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TO ALL THE MEMBERS OF THE AUGUSTINIAN RECOLLECT FAMILY Saddened yet full of hope, we relay to you this notice that our brother, FRAY EMILIO LOBERIZA LARLAR JR., OAR, passed away in the early hours of September 13, 2020, a Sunday, at the St. Ezekiel Moreno Provincial Center, Quezon City (Philippines). He succumbed to sudden…
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Translated by Fray Dunstan Huberto Decena, OAR Mt. 20:1-16 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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Invitation: Solemn Profession of Fray Ramon Bitancor III, OAR
Recoletos de Saipan celebrates feast of St. Nicholas
by Margaret de la Cruz “The Heavens are not pure in the sight of Him Whom I serve; how then shall I, a sinful man, stand before Him?” -St. Nicholas of Tolentine Saipan, CNMI–For most of us here in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, St. Nicholas of Tolentine is probably an unfamiliar saint to…
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