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Mira-nila, QC- RFC formands gathered for the Annual Operational Project and Plans of Recoletos Formation Center (RFC) and Recoletos School of Theology (RST) for the school year 2021-2022 last June 17, 2021. The meeting started at 8:00am by the opening prayer led by Rev. Virgilio Calalang Jr., OAR and Fray Jose Enrico V. Gallego, OAR,…

Mira-nila Homes, QC- June 3, 2021 was a momentous date for Recoletos School of Theology (RST) as it staged the first-ever Graduation Rites and Solemn Investiture since the pandemic outbreak (2020) in Our Lady of Consolation Parish. Fr. Dionisio Q. Selma, OAR, RST Chairman of the Board of Trustees and Prior Provincial of the Province…

Recoletos School of Theology and Recoletos Formation Center in partnership with St. Ezekiel Moreno Novitiate-Recoletos, Secular Augustinian Recollect Fraternity de Antipolo and lay partners initiated outreach activities for victims of the typhoons Rolly and Ulysses. The relief operation were conducted in three different places.  In Tiwi, Albay, the friars of OAR through ARCORES de Filipinas…

QUEZON CITY –October 9, 2020 the students of the Recoletos School of Theology met online to celebrate the institution’s special day. This is in line with the celebration of the Solemnity of St. Thomas de Villanova, the patron of studies of the Recollects. Classes in the morning were cut short to give way to the…

Recoletos Formation Center required nine (9) intern seminarians from different congregations and dioceses to yield negative for swab testing before joining the community for the new academic year 2020-2021. In compliance with the health protocols from government health organizations and Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF), the incoming theologians:  one from each of the Diocese of Tandag,…

Rev. Fr. Emilio Larlar, OAR, succumbed to cardiac arrest due to COVID-19 infection, in the early hours of September 13, 2020, at the St. Ezekiel Moreno Provincial Center, Bahay Toro, Quezon City. Pursuant to the strict quarantine protocols mandated by the government to avoid contamination and the spread of the virus, no wake was held…

September 11, 2020, Fray Emilio Edgardo Quilatan, OAR celebrates 55th birthday with RFC community. The celebration started with the early morning Holy Mass presided by the birthday celebrant.  The celebrant commenting on the gospel’s words, “Why do you observe the splinter in your brother’s eye and never notice the great log in your own?” (Lk…

September 10, 2020, the Order of Augustinian Recollects was expressing gratitude toward God for the unfailing adoration, direction and the gifts got, as they open the year-long festival of the 400th long stretches of the birth of the Province of St. Nicholas of Tolentine. The Province was born in the Philippines, which later on turned…

QUEZON CITY – The Recoletos School of Theology officially opened the school year 2020-2021 amidst COVID-19 through a votive mass in honor of the Holy Spirit (Solemnity of Our Lady of Consolation, September 4, 2020). Rev. Fr. Dionisio Q. Selma, OAR, the Prior-Provincial of the Order of Augustinian Recollects, Province of St. Ezekiel Moreno, presided…

The community of Recoletos Formation Center welcomed five newly professed OAR Friars and three brothers coming from Pious Unions.  These are additional members to the RFC community in the journey toward theological, human, spiritual and human maturity. The very said day started with the celebration of the Holy Mass in honor of the memorial of…