Formation | Continuous Formation
MIRA NILA Homes, Quezon City – On February 23, 2024, the OAR-AR ‘formators of the Province of St. Ezekiel Moreno gathered for their annual updating, marking the second year of the Formation of Formators program at the Recoletos Formation Center in Quezon City. A number of religious participants, primarily those assigned to the formation houses, attended the annual updating sponsored by the Secretariat of Vocation and Initial Formation. Also, participants from the Congregation of the Augustinian Recollect Sisters joined the two-day workshop. The initiative was the result of a collaborative effort arising from the Province’s commitment to respond to the…
RST Community begins AY 2017-2018 with Mass of the Holy Spirit
Mira-Nila Homes, Quezon City – August 11, 2017 (Saturday) The Recoletos School of Theology officially opens the Academic Year 2017–2018 with the celebration of the Mass of the Holy Spirit. The Mass of the Holy Spirit is a traditional practice by all Catholic educational institutions in commencing the academic year praying for the help of…
Fray Larlar opens novena to St. Ezekiel at SEMONORE
ANTIPOLO CITY – “Novena is our response to call to holiness…we journey for nine days to see the beauty of being loved by God,” said Fray Lauro V. Larlar, OAR, the former Prior Provincial, who was the main celebrant and homilist in the opening of Novena Mass in honor of St. Ezekiel last August 10,…
3-day retreat prepares seminarians for rigors of formation year
BAGUIO CITY–In order to help them prepare spiritually for the coming formation year, seminarians of Casiciaco Recoletos Seminary in Baguio City underwent a 3-day retreat which focused on human dignity, vocation and the Augustinian Recollect community and way of life.
Invitation: Solemn Profession of Vows 2017
August 28, 2017 9:00 AM Our Lady of Consolation Parish Fray Paul S. Demillones, OAR (Tacloban, Leyte) Fray Niel Ryan E. Jarumay, OAR (Canlaon City, Negros Oriental) Fray Keneth B. Pahamutang, OAR (Tagbilaran City, Bohol) Fray Robin Ross S. Plata, OAR (Candelaria, Quezon Province) Fray Elpedio N. Sarita Jr., OAR (Valencia, Negros Oriental) Fray Kenneth…
SeMoNoRe holds hospital visit
ANTIPOLO CITY –Rizal Provincial Hospital Hospital Antipolo District Annex welcomed the community of St. Ezekiel Moreno Novitiate –Recoletos for a visit last August 14, 2017.
Recoletos Formation Center Quezon City
1980s With the significant increase of Filipino vocations to the Recollect Order, the possibility of having a theologate house in the Philippines was Seriously considered. In the past, Filipino seminarians pursued their theological studies in Marcilla, Navarre, Spain. September 17, 1982 The then vicarial Council forwarded to the Prior Provincial, Fr. Antonio Calvo, in Madrid…
Casiciaco Recoletos Seminary Baguio City
1951 Recollect Superiors talked to the bishop of the newly-created Apostolic Vicariate of Montañosa, Most Rev. William Brasseur CICM, DD about their plan to build a retreat and rest house named after Italian Villa, Casiciaco, in an 8-hectare land purchased from the Jesuits. 1953 Newly elected prior provincial, Manuel Carceller approved the project. Constructions began.…
Bahay Lingkod-Recoletos Antipolo City
April 11-15, 1994 First Vicarial Congress held in Baguio City whose 8th recommendation called for the creation of the Pre-Novitiate Program which would run after college. March 3, 1997 Approval of the Pre-novitiate level, “focused on the human and affective integration of the candidates’ philosophical maturation and spiritual growth in divine realities.” May 1, 1997 …
