One day visit not enough to renew community, Father General tells Recoletos de Miranila

Mira-Nila Homes, QUEZON CITY – “The community cannot be renewed by just one day of visit. The only one who can renew our hearts is the Holy Spirit,” said Rev. P. Fray Miguel Miro, OAR, Prior General of Order, addressing the formands and Religious Formators of Recoletos Formation Center during the Eucharistic celebration last March…

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LECTIO DIVINA: 2nd Sunday of Lent (C)

INVOKING THE HOLY SPIRIT We invoke the Holy Spirit using the words of St. Augustine. Come, Holy Spirit, by whom every devout soul, who believes in Christ is sanctified to become a citizen of the City of God! (en. Ps. 45:8). Come, Holy Spirit, grant that we receive the motions of God, put in us your flame, enlighten…

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COMMUNION WITH CHRIST: Recollection Material for April 2019 (Jn. 15:1-8)

Communion within the community can be solidly built up only in Christ and by Christ. We are members of his body, and to live the communion is nothing else than to fully express that we live by his grace, and this grace, like a spiritual sap, unites all of us members of Christ’s Body in…

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3rd Recoletos International Research Congress garners 200 entries from across the globe

On its third run, the reach of the Recoletos Research Congress (RRC) has extended farther compared when it first started in 2017. Two-hundred entries were received this year. There were also researchers from 78 schools in India, USA, Vietnam, Taiwan, Singapore, and Philippines who took part in the said intellectual gathering. A total of 171 participants gathered.…

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35 young men welcomed for search-in program

San Carlos City, NEGROS OCCIDENTAL – The Sto. Tomas de Villanueva-Recoletos Formation House (STVR-FH) opened its doors to 35 young men who felt they have an initial calling for the priesthood and religious life. The came voluntarily for a three-day “Search-In Program” from March 8 to 10. Organized by STVR-FH, the said program was meant…

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SSCR Graduate School of Law-Master of Laws (LLM) program goes around the country

The growing demand for Master of Laws in the country placed SSCR in a great position to provide for the legal needs of the members of the faculty of schools of law throughout the country. The Legal Education Board’s Memorandum No. 1 provides that “Within a period of five (5) years of the promulgation of…

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Father General enjoins Recoletos de Tondo: Create communion, become evangelizing

Tondo, MANILA—With a proud history of having been visited by two ecclesiastical super VIP’s (St. Pope Paul VI and St. Pope John Paul II), the people of Delpan in Tondo prove that they are no amateurs in receiving and listening to yet another European bigshot who was there to visit the Recollect community of Our…

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Father General visits AR Sisters-Motherhouse: Sharing centers on Spiritual Renewal and Beatification of the Foundresses

MANILA — On March 3, 2019, Fr. Miguel Miró together with Fr. Raul Buhay, OAR, and Fr. Antonio Carrón, OAR was welcomed at the Generalate’s office with Mo. Lucena L. Antipala, A.R. and the sisters of the Motherhouse together with the community of AR-Sisters in Quezon City. They were expected at around 6:00 P.M. but…

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OAR Father General visits Recoletos de Cavite

CAVITE CITY – Fray Miguel Miró Miró, OAR, Prior General of the Order of Augustinian Recollects, paid his second Renewal Visit to San Sebastian College-Recoletos de Cavite last March 7, 2019. He was accompanied by Fray Raul M. Buhay, OAR, one of the General Councilors of the Order who also served as his official interpreter.…

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