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Vatican’s Dicastery grants RST Canonical Recognition and Renewal of Affiliation with UST

By Bro. Jesse Meer E. Alipes | October 9, 2025 | Comments Off on Vatican’s Dicastery grants RST Canonical Recognition and Renewal of Affiliation with UST
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QUEZON CITY—Vatican’s Dicastery for Culture and Education granted Recoletos School of Theology (RST) canonical recognition as an Ecclesiastical Institution of Higher Studies and confirmed the renewal of its affiliation with the Royal and Pontifical University of Santo Tomas (UST) in Manila for another five years. Dated August 25, 2025, and signed by Cardinal José Tolentino de Mendonça, Prefect of the Dicastery for Culture and Education, the two documents were presented to the RST community during a thanksgiving Mass last October 2, 2025, presided by Rev. Fr. Ian Anthony Espartero, OAR, School Director, with Rev. Fr. Lounal Jarumay, OAR, Executive Secretary,…

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Launching of IYEA in Manila (Photo Gallery)

Manila, PH—San Sebastian College-Recoletos de Manila holds it’s own version of the launching of the International Year of Augustinian Recollect Educational Apostolate (IYEA) on September 8, 2015, the feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Fr. Dionisio Q. Selma, OAR, prior provincial officiates the celebration of the Holy Eucharist preceding the grand presentation.

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Recoletos To Mark Int’l Year Of Educational Apostolate

CEBU CITY—Representatives of Philippine schools run by the Order of Augustinian Recollects (OAR) will flock to the University of San Jose-Recoletos on August 28, feast of St. Augustine, to witness the opening of the Order’s year of educational apostolate.

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Bacolod Celebration of St. Ezekiel’s Feast with Bishop Vicente Navarra, D.D.

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UNO-R Celebrates 2 Feasts

The University of Negros Occidental–Recoletos and the Oratory of St. Nicholas of Tolentino is celebrating the two fiestas–the feastday of St. Ezekiel Moreno, the patron saint of cancer patients on August 19 and St. Augustine on August 28.