Mission

Recoletos de Saipan holds first CARAS formation

By Tonette Salcedo / August 2, 2018 / Comments Off on Recoletos de Saipan holds first CARAS formation

San Roque Parish, SAIPAN – To implement the tasks given to the appointed Vocation Promoters and Youth Ministers, Recoletos de Saipan community introduced the first formation program for members of the Confraternity of Augustinian Recollect Altar Servers (CARAS).

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Kaohsiung archbishop visits Recoletos-run parishes

By Tonette Salcedo / July 20, 2018 / Comments Off on Kaohsiung archbishop visits Recoletos-run parishes

Kaohisung, TAIWAN – Every five years in the Diocese of Kaohsiung, the Local Ordinary together with some members of his Presbyteral Council and the Treasurer of the Diocese conduct an official pastoral visit to each parish within the Diocese. The last of such visit happened in the year 2013.

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Pioneering Recollect missionaries arrive in Cuba

By Frei Bo / February 19, 2018 / Comments Off on Pioneering Recollect missionaries arrive in Cuba

CUBA—The first community of Augustinian Recollect missionaries  has already arrived in Cuba. In the morning of Saturday they travelled from Panamá to start their work of evangelization. We give thanks to God and entrust to him their mission.

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Recoletos de Saipan celebrates first anniversary of arrival in the island

By Frei Bo / August 23, 2017 / Comments Off on Recoletos de Saipan celebrates first anniversary of arrival in the island

SAIPAN–Biba San Roque! These were the words chanted by the parishioners and the many faithful who came to celebrate the Feast of San Roque – patron of Saipan’s northernmost church, last August 20, 2017. It was a warm and sunny Sunday afternoon, a weather that surprised many given the rains that watered the island the…

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We have returned: Recollect Mission opens anew in Mindanao

By Frei Bo / August 14, 2017 / Comments Off on We have returned: Recollect Mission opens anew in Mindanao

SURIGAO DEL SUR–The Province of St. Ezekiel Moreno of the Order of Augustinian Recollects has just made a comeback to Mindanao, the rightful place, at the eastern Pacific coast of the country, after more than a decade since it has relinquished a short-lived mission in Iligan, Lanao del Norte on 4th of October 2004.

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Provi at the aiport

Renewal Visit to Recoletos de Saipan

By Frei Bo / March 4, 2017 / Comments Off on Renewal Visit to Recoletos de Saipan

PROVINCIALATE—Fray Dionisio Selma OAR, prior provincial, has just completed his “visita de renovación” to the newly-created community of Saipan last February 23 to 26, 2017. He was accompanied by Fray Jose Ernil Almayo OAR, provincial secretary, who assisted him in the checking of the official books of the community.

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Recoletos de Provincialate observes OAR Year of Holiness

By Frei Bo / March 4, 2017 / Comments Off on Recoletos de Provincialate observes OAR Year of Holiness

PROVINCIAL CURIA—In the spirit of collective spiritual preparation for the opening of the Augustinian Recollect “Year of Holiness” on March 5, first Sunday of Lent, the community of Recoletos de Provincialate modified the liturgical guide sent by the General Secretariat of Spirituality and Formation. At 8AM in the morning of March 4 (today), the friars…

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Recoletos invited to return to Pangasinan

By Frei Bo / September 10, 2016 / Comments Off on Recoletos invited to return to Pangasinan

DAGUPAN CITY, Pangasinan—“I brought forth my wish that the Recoletos open again a mission in Pangasinan,” wrote Most Rev. Socrates Villegas, D.D., archbishop of Lingayen-Dagupan, to the Prior Provincial after the fraternal visit of the Recollect religious and seminarians to the archbishop last September 1, 2016. The invitation The visit stemmed from an invitation in…

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Recoletos de Inagawan is alive, kicking

By Frei Bo / September 6, 2016 / Comments Off on Recoletos de Inagawan is alive, kicking

INAGAWAN, Puerto Princesa City, Palawan—The month of August brewed something more in the pastoral kettle of Recoletos de Inagawan. Something more to evidence that not only the community but also the parish is alive and kicking! With Fray Raul Buhay, parish priest of the Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Parish, on the lead, the implementation…

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Father Provincial answers questions about Recoletos de Saipan

By Frei Bo / August 27, 2016 / Comments Off on Father Provincial answers questions about Recoletos de Saipan

PROVINCIALATE, Quezon City—Here are some significant notes from the desk of the Father Provincial, Fray Dionisio Q. Selma, OAR, who was asked about the newly-consolidated community of Recoletos de Saipan. Q. Father, a lot of lay people are interested to know about the new community of Recollects assigned in Saipan. Kindly tell us about this.…

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