Posts by Casiciaco Correspondent
Poster Exhibit and Creative Presentation open Jornadas de Filosofia 2023
By: Bro. Sean Cass L. Alvarez Baguio City – Casiciaco Recoletos Seminary’s annual Jornadas de Filosofia marks its first day with the poster exhibit and creative presentation contest last March 20, 2023. Vibrant and colorful artworks were hung in the seminary classroom corridor as each fraternity showcased their philosophical posters. With the theme “Philosophy: Becoming…
Read MoreCasiciaco Recoletos Seminary hosts the 13th OAR Formands’ Encounter
Bro. Alvin C. Laserna Jr. Casiciaco Recoletos Seminary (CaReS) hosted the three-day long OAR Formands’ Encounter that was held last January 10-12, 2023. The host community welcomed the rest of the formands coming from Recoletos de Antipolo and Recoletos de Mira-Nila on the evening of January 9, 2023, by an opening salvo wherein they danced…
Read MoreON LOVE AND FEAR
November 20, 2022 — Solemnity of Christ the King A Sunday Reflection from the Gospel of Luke (23:35–43) By: Bro. Sean Cass L. Alvarez I still remember the crystal clear day of November 20, 2018, when we, the seminarians of Casiciaco Recoletos Seminary, joined the people of Baguio who flocked and gathered at the Baguio…
Read MoreTHE DICHOTOMY OF TRUTH AND SOCIETY
November 13, 2022 — 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time A Sunday Reflection from the Gospel of Luke (21:5-19) Bro. Alvin C. Laserna Jr. Most of us do not want to live alone as if being with others is already a part of our identities. This is deemed rational not just by the thinkers in the…
Read MoreCaReS All Soul’s Day Apostolate
By: Bro. Sean Cass L. Alvarez Baguio City – Casiciaco Recoletos Seminary held various activities in honor of the faithful departed last November 2, 2022. Three Requiem Masses Taking advantage of the privilege granted by Pope Benedict XV in 1915 which states that every priest can celebrate three requiem masses, the community of Casiciaco Recoletos…
Read MoreSino ka sa Langit 2022 with Formators
By: Bro. Alvin C. Laserna Jr. Baguio City—Last November 1, 2022, Casiciaco Recoletos seminarians creatively dressed themselves as they held the annual seminary event, Sino ka sa Langit. What made this year’s Sino ka sa Langit remarkable was the participation of some formators in the program. Imitating Models of Faith: A Counter-Cultural Endeavor In his…
Read MoreRosary Month Culminates amidst Bad Weather
By: Bro. Alvin C. Laserna Jr. Baguio City—While the country was lashed by Typhoon Paeng, which effects have also been felt in Baguio, Casiciaco Recoletos Seminary (CaReS) community pushed through with the rosary month culmination activity last October 30, 2022. The culmination was marked by a living rosary prayed inside the Capilla de Nuestra Señora…
Read MoreLiberators’ Investiture
By: Alvin C. Laserna Jr. The Batch Liberators had their Toma de Habito (Investiture) last October 12, 2022, the feast day of the seminary patroness, Our Lady of the Pillar. Unlike the past two investitures, the seminary accepted a number of visitors, most were relatives of the new postulants. Regardless, however, of the bulk of…
Read MoreA Procession in honor of Our Lady of the Pillar
By: Alvin Laserna Jr. Last October 11, 2022, the Casiciaco Recoletos Seminary held a procession in honor of Our Lady of the Pillar whose feast day would be held a day after. The procession started at 6:30 in the evening attended by the seminarians, priests, and the different lay organizations of the seminary especially the…
Read MoreCaReS Intramurals 2022 Commences
By: Alvin C. Laserna Jr. BAGUIO CITY—The annual Casiciaco Recoletos Seminary Intramurals has formally been opened last September 29, 2022 at the Recoletos Gym. This year’s theme is “Praying and Playing Together Towards Solidarity” inspired by the current focus of the Church in Synodality and the Order of Augustinian Recollect’s motto of the year, “Together”.…
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