Formation | Continuous Formation
Sixteen formators from the seminaries of the Province of St. Ezekiel Moreno convened for the three-day Annual Formation of Formators held at Villa San Ezekiel in Pansol, Calamba City, Laguna from February 26 – 28, 2026. Representatives from Casiciaco Recoletos Seminary, St. Ezekiel Moreno Novitiate–Recoletos, and Recoletos Formation Center participated in the yearly gathering, which focused on current updates and concerns of the Province’s Formation Apostolate. The assembly formally opened on February 26, following the arrival of participants in the morning. At 4:00 PM, Fr. Kenneth Onda, OAR, Vicar of the Province and Head of the Secretariat of Initial Formation,…
RFC Covid19 Update
Mira Nila Homes, QUEZON CITY–The City Government, through Barangay Pasong Tamo, extended their program on sanitizing and disinfecting infrastructures and vicinities to Recoletos Formation Center, Recoletos School of Theology, and Our Lady of Consolation Parish. The said activity was conducted twice already (June 16 and 22, 2020) to secure public health and safety of the…
Five friars profess Simple Vows amidst CoVid pandemic
Antipolo City, RIZAL—The Coronavirus (CoVid-19) pandemic is forcing cities and nations into border lockdowns and citizens into isolation. And yet it could not stop the Prior Provincial, Fray Dionisio Q. Selma, OAR, from welcoming into the Order of Augustinian Recollects five young men who made their simple profession of vows at St. Ezekiel Moreno Novitiate-Recoletos…
RFC Coristas renew Vows amidst pandemic
Mira-Nila Homes QUEZON CITY–“Your renewal of your religious consecration tonight, dear brothers, appears irrational to many people who cannot understand the vowed life that you have personally embraced in your lives,” said Fray Ian Anthony R. Espartero, OAR, Vicar of the Province of St. Ezekiel Moreno, to the ten simply professed friars who renewed their…
RFC Coristas receive ministries of Lectors and Acolytes
Mira Nila Homes, QUEZON CITY–“Why is it we have ministry? Because it is our response to the call of God and to continue His mission but most especially to serve His Church and because of Him who called us,” Fray Dionisio Q. Selma, OAR, Prior Provincial, amplified in his homily on the occasion of the…
CaReS donates 28 bags of blood amidst Covid-19 pandemic
BAGUIO CITY–The demand for blood has always been higher than its supply. This is a fact known only too well to Roselyn Reyes, a Medical Technologist III at the Baguio General Hospital Medical Center (BGHMC). “The need for blood reaches approximately 50 units a day at BGHMC alone,” she said. “On ordinary days, we could…
SEMONO-RE stays in Solidarity with the Poor despite the Lockdown
Antipolo City- “Closed doors cannot hold charity from overflowing.” This is the mantra of the community of St. Ezekiel Moreno Novitiate-Recoletos (SEMONO-RE) as it continues to provide spiritual and physical aid to the less fortunate around the vicinity despite the insistence of the lockdown that started last March 14, 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic.…
The Search for God Goes on
“To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him the greatest human achievement.” Our Father Saint Augustine once said this to those who are searching. Even though formal seminary formation, where formands seek God in their everyday lives inside the formation house together with both…
Augustinian Recollect formation revitalized
The second meeting of the School of Formation ‘In Imum Cordis’ has concluded with the general feeling of revitalization in the formation of the Augustinian Recollects. ROME–After two weeks of living together and learning, last Saturday, February 22, 2020, the second edition of the School of Formation of the Augustinian Recollects ‘In Imum Cordis’ concluded. On…
