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SARF-Sierra Leone is Province’s 17th Chapter, joins virtual fiesta celebrations
QUEZON CITY – Aside from the online celebrations of the solemn feast of St. Magdalene of Nagasaki, patroness of the Secular Augustinian Recollect Fraternity (SARF) on October 20, the presence and presentation of “SARF de Sierra Leone” as the fraternity’s 17th chapter in the Province of St. Ezekiel Moreno turned this year’s assembly on an…
Read MoreForeign Missions Update: OAR Response to COVID-19
SIERRA LEONE Ubuntu Africa: A Recollect Response to Covid-19 Pandemic “Ubuntu” in the African culture (or “Osho” in Krio) describes compassion towards the other. It also connotes the belief in the intrinsic good of humanity or the universal bond of sharing that connects all humanity. Concretizing this cultural value (which is also a Gospel value),…
Read MoreProvince receives 21 new postulants
Baguio City – The Province of St. Ezekiel Moreno of the Order of Augustinian Recollects received twenty one postulants last October 12, 2020, at Casiciaco Recoletos Seminary. On the same day, the seminary celebrated the feast of Nuestra Señora del Pilar, its Patroness. “Man is Homo Simbolorum (Man of Signs) and the habit is the…
Read MoreVirtual Talk of the Prior General on his Document “Witnessing to Poverty”
Another opportunity to level up our learning, appreciation, and growth in “poverty of spirit, care for Creation and solidarity with the poor” is coming this Saturday, October 24, 2020, at 4:00 p.m. (Philippine time). Let us participate and take this as part of our ongoing formation to become happy witnesses to poverty by following the…
Read More5 youths receive RAY Cross; new officers take oath
Talisay City, NEGROS OCCIDENTAL–Recollect Augustinian Youth (RAY) de Talisay Council received five more candidates for admittance to the RAY family. They were finally installed, and they received the Recollect Augustinian Youth Cross as a sign of their dedication to God and their identification with the Order. The celebration was administered by the Local Prior of…
Read MoreSchool teachers and staff receive “Gasa ni Tomas” on Feast of St. Thomas of Villanova
San Carlos City, NEGROS OCCIDENTAL–In her 27 years as staff of the Colegio de Sto. Tomas-Recoletos Registrar’s Office, Melinda Dela Paz, has never experienced a crisis such as this pandemic has brought. Melinda used to earn extra income for her children’s education by consigning food items at the school canteen. After Philippine schools were limited…
Read MoreSARF-Vicariate of USA Newsletter (October 2020)
Fall greetings to all our Secular Augustinian Recollects, Guild members, and the Hispanic Committee as well as our parishioners at Sacred Heart Church! St. Nicholas of Tolentine. Fr. John Gruben presided at the Mass celebrating the Feast of St. Nicholas of Tolentine on September 10 at the 9 am Mass at Sacred Heart Church, in…
Read MoreWitnessing to Poverty: A Blessing and A Challenge
«Happy are you poor, the Kingdom of God is yours!» (Lk 6,20) Pope Francis invited us, Augustinian Recollects, “to hold fast to the dream of Saint Augustine to live as brothers ‘with one heart and one soul’ (Rule 1, 2) with a renewed spirit”. And he explained further saying that it is a dream “that…
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Recollect community dedicates Monteagudo chaplet to Mary, Birhen sa Rosaryo
San Carlos City, NEGROS OCCIDENTAL—The Recollect community of Sto. Tomas de Villanueva-Recoletos Formation House celebrated the Feast of the Our Lady of the Holy Rosary, October 7, 2020, by dedicating a chaplet to Her at Monteagudo-Recoletos Retreat House, Barangay Rizal. The chaplet was constructed through the generosity of a long-time benefactor who asked that she…
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