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St. Joseph the Husband of Mary celebrates First Patronal Fiesta
CASIAN, Palawan – March 18, 2023 marks St. Joseph the Husband of Mary Mission Station’s first Pastoral Fiesta at Barangay Sandoval, Taytay, Palawan Mission Station. The festivities started with the solemn procession of the image of St Joseph Husband of Mary at 7:00 in the morning followed by the Holy Mass presided by Bishop Edgardo…
Read MoreArcores Solar Dream Sierra Leone
Last March 1-2, 2023, nine (9) youth from the two villages of Kamakita and Kamagbagbaranthan under the Parish of Our Lady of Sierra Leone, attended a two-day workshop training for the installation and maintenance of the off-grid photovoltaic (PV) system sponsored by Arcores International for the Arcores Solar Dream Project Sierra Leone. The said project…
Read MoreCSNT-R, TALISAY AND UNO-R SIGN MOA ON CSNT-R GRADE 12 IMMERSION PROGRAM
BACOLOD, Negros Occidental – The grade 12 students of Colegio San Nicolas de Tolentino – Recoletos in Talisay signed a Memorandum of Agreement with the University for its students to have their Grade 12 OJT and Immersion program on the campus from March 8, 2023 to March 31, 2023. Rev. Fr. Emilio Jaruda, Jr., OAR,…
Read MoreMessage of the Prior General one year after the 56th General Chapter
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace. Dear Brothers: Next week marks one year since the closing of the 56th General Chapter. We do not forget the reverberations of that beautiful experience of communion and synodality which our Order lived and which has been followed by the chapters of the four…
Read MoreSan Nicolas De Tolentino Mission Station Update
Praise and thanks be to God for the gift of Mission! Our San Nicolas de Tolentino Mission Station, which began on August 1, 2022, is led by our Parish Priest and Community Prior, Rev. Fr. Jerome Virtudazo, OAR with Rev. Fr. Enrico S. Nacorda, OAR as companion. There are difficulties and challenges especially at the…
Read MorePAASCU RESURVEY TEAM VISITS UNO-R
Several Programs of the University of Negros Occidental – Recoletos were subjected to Philippine Accrediting Association of Schools, Colleges and Universities (PAASCU) accreditation/ re-accreditation last February 20 and 21, 2023. The programs under resurvey were Arts and Sciences (BS Psychology and BA Communication), Elementary and Secondary Education programs, Business Administration and Accountancy Programs, Civil Engineering,…
Read MoreRefuge and Resilience: An ARCORES Home Rehabilitation Project Series
After decades of raising eight children, she finally landed a job as maintenance personnel of Colegio de Sto. Tomas-Recoletos (CST-R) in San Carlos City, Philippines in 2011. Her job order was then contractual and was commissioned by the school Parents & Teachers Association (PTA). Then in 2020, after nearly ten years, she finally became a…
Read MoreA door to education and equality
The Augustinian Recollect missionaries of Sierra Leone have been attending a small boarding school since 2019 that allows 12 young people without resources to receive education and develop humanly. It has been several months since Alice Turay and Adamsay Kargbo left their homes and said goodbye to their families to face a unique opportunity. If…
Read MoreThomasian President Condemns Hazing, Warns Thomasians Against Frat Violence
“Is that real brotherhood?” SAN CARLOS CITY, Neg. Occidental – Colegio de Sto. Tomas-Recoletos President Rev. Fr. Cristopher Maspara, OAR took to the pulpit to relate the dangers of hazing and fraternity violence and warn Thomasians during the First Friday Mass last March 3, 2023, with the college Thomasians in attendance. Fr. Maspara, who has…
Read MoreRecollection Material – March 2023 TOGETHER IN FRATERNITY
PHIL. 2:1-5 One of the first writers of the Augustinian family, Jordan of Saxony, commented in his work Vitasfratrum (Lives of the Brothers) that St. Augustine had founded his religious Order following the idea of the community, or rather, the same author points out, on the idea of communion. In fact we, the Augustinian Recollects…
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