Formation | Continuous Formation
On the eve of the Feast of St. Ezekiel Moreno, a group of ten simply professed religious from various provinces of the Order of Augustinian Recollects began their five-day spiritual retreat. This retreat marksthe final stage of their seven-week preparation before making their Solemn Profession. We kindly ask for your continued prayers for them.
Frays Barrot, Espartero take over RST major posts
Mira Nila Homes, QUEZON CITY–Fray Leander Barrot was recently appointed as the new Rector of the Recoletos School of Theology (RST) in Miranila, Quezon City, while Fray Ian Anthony Espartero was appointed as the new Dean of Studies. These major tour of duty came about in view of the demands “to foster the development of…
Returning Seminarians Undergo 14-day Quarantine
BAGUIO CITY– During this pandemic, we can never be so sure. This is the caution of Dorothy Joy Panelo, RN, Seminary Nurse, during the arrival of the returning seminarians last August 3, 2020. “We can never know who is the carrier of the virus,” she said. “Therefore, it is an imperative to undergo the necessary…
Province receives six novices
Antipolo City, RIZAL—You are isolated, but not detached from the world. This was the message of the local Prior of St. Ezekiel Moreno Novitiate-Recoletos (SeMoNo-Re) in this city to the six members of Batch Martyrs who were formally received into the Novitiate Formation Year during the Mass earlier today, July 16, 2020. “The novitiate is…
RST opens with new mode of learning
Mira-Nila Homes, QUEZON CITY—Recoletos School of Theology opened its horizon to Online Classes adopting to the new normal due to the dangers of CoViD 19 for the Academic Year 2020-2021. Prof. Mark Joseph T. Calano, PhD of Ateneo de Manila University conducted a seminar workshop on Learning Management System and on the Principles for Online…
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…
