Prot. SEM 103/255 August 2025 TO ALL THE MEMBERS OF THE AUGUSTINIAN RECOLLECT FAMILY “How great shall be that felicity, which shall be tainted with no evil, which shall lack no good, and which shall afford leisure for the praises of God, who shall be all in all.”-St. Augustine (De Civitate Dei, Chapter 30) Dear…
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Prot. SEM 099/2521 July 2025 TO ALL THE MEMBERS OF THE AUGUSTINIAN RECOLLECT FAMILY “O God, to know You is life. To serve You is freedom. To praise You is the soul’s joy and delight. Guard me with the power of Your grace here and in all places. Now and at all time, forever. Amen.”(St.…
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Prot. SEM 007/25 February 13, 2025 TO ALL THE MEMBERS OF THE AUGUSTINIAN RECOLLECT FAMILY “He alone loses no one dear to him, to whom all are dear in the One who is never lost.” (St. Augustine, Confessions, IV.9.14) Dear brothers and sisters, With deep sorrow and Christian hope, I hereby formally announce to you…
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Prot. SEM 101/23December 14, 2023 TO ALL THE MEMBERS OF THE AUGUSTINIAN RECOLLECT FAMILY “It is only through faith in resurrection that we can face the abyss of death without being overwhelmed by fear.” (Pope Francis) Dear brothers and sisters, It is with a heavy heart that I hereby formally announce to you the untimely…
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Prot. SEM 049/23July 11, 2023 TO ALL THE RELIGIOUS AND MEMBERS OF THE AUGUSTINIAN RECOLLECT FAMILY “But how should we Christians respond to the question of death? We respond with faith in God, with a gaze of firm hope founded on the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.”– Pope Benedict XVI Dear brothers and sisters:…
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Prot. SEM 079/22April 13, 2022 TO ALL THE MEMBERS OF THE AUGUSTINIAN RECOLLECT FAMILY “Across the barrier of death, and in configuration with Christ who died and rose again, the communion of love, begun by the brothers on earth, will reach its fullness in heaven, where all will be one in Christ.” (OAR Const. 93a)…
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TO ALL THE MEMBERS OF THE AUGUSTINIAN RECOLLECT FAMILY Dear brothers and sisters: “[T]he moment of death … [is to be regarded as] reaching the beginning of that which is eternally new, in which the fullness of truth and love is revealed.” (Add. Code 275) It is with deep sorrow yet with full of hope…
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TO ALL THE MEMBERS OF THE AUGUSTINIAN RECOLLECT FAMILY Dear brothers and sisters: “For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, … will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Rom. 8:38-39) It is my sad duty to inform you that FRAY NEMESIO DIANA TOLENTIN, OAR died…
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TO ALL THE MEMBERS OF THE AUGUSTINIAN RECOLLECT FAMILY Dear brothers and sisters: It is my sad duty to formally break this news to you: our brother, FRAY JOEL SALADAR NARANJA, OAR, passed away at 8:30 p.m. of August 8, 2021, a Sunday (or at 8:30 a.m. of August 9, Philippine time) at the ICU…
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TO ALL MEMBERS OF THE AUGUSTINIAN RECOLLECT FAMILY We would like to notify you that we “sadly lost” another brother on the eve of the feast of the Divine Mercy, on April 10, 2021, when FRAY CARMELO VILLAGONZALO BORCES, OAR, breathed his last at the Ospital ng Palawan in Puerto Princesa City, Palawan after succumbing…
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