News Updates

The Provincial Superior, Fr. Orville Cajigal, RCJ, made a presentation of the Mid-Term Report regarding the status of the St. Matthew Province last November 30 to December 1, 2020. The participants were the perpetually professed religious of the Province, through a Zoom Online Video Conference.

To usher Christ today, we need the increase of priests and religious who can lead us to and gather us around Him. That is why, according to St. Hannibal Mary Di Francia, the "Rogate" becomes a great universal remedy: a remedy that can transform a society into a committed society that worships God and serves Him in the faces of the people, especially the least, the last, and the lost.

The two-session module workshop on "Deepening on the Personal Life Project" concluded last September 12, thanks to Fr. Jessie Martirizar, RCJ, its facilitator. The workshop started last Saturday, September 5, which forms part of the program of the Pastoral Institute for Vocation Ministry (PIVM) for the religious students preparing for the Perpetual Profession.

“Learn to do good. Make justice your aim: redress the wronged, hear the orphan’s plea, defend the widow. (Isaiah, 1, 17)”

The Office of the Provincial Superior has released an initial report on the collection and distribution of the calamity fund today, November 28, 2020. The collections were organized in response to the Protocol 293 2020, calling all the Superiors and Confreres of the Rogationists in the St. Matthew Province to "raise support and assistance for the victims of the recent typhoons in the Philippines."

For this month dedicated to the teachers, we have featured Jesus, our Divine Teacher, as it is understood from the Gospel of John 6:45.

Within the Mass on the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, which was presided over by Fr. Orville Cajigal, RCJ, the Provincial Superior, three (3) religious students were instituted to the Ministry of Lectors and eight (8) others to the Ministry of Acolytes, as well as the launching of the Rogationist Mission Day 2020.

“Sow for yourselves justice, reap in mercy. Break up for yourselves a new field, for it is time to seek the Lord, till he comes and rains justice upon you.” (Hosea 10:12)

Today, 19th of November 2020, Rev. Petrus Marianus, RCJ was ordained as a priest, through the imposition of the hands of the Bishop of Maumere, Msgr. Edwaldus Martinus Sedu, Pr.

The two-session module workshop on "Biblical Theology on Consecrated Life" concluded yesterday October 3, with Fr. Ulrich Gacayan, RCJ as its facilitator. The workshop started last Saturday, September 26, which forms part of the program of the Pastoral Institute for Vocation Ministry (PIVM) for the religious students preparing for the Perpetual Profession.

The Postulancy Program of the St. Matthew Province conducted an Online Preparatory Retreat for the Formal Acceptance of the Postulants for the Formative Year 2020-2021 from August 12-14, 2020.

We pray for the thousands affected by the closure and offer them our sincerest solidarity and prayers. Rest assured that we continue to be with you during these trying times.

The two-session module workshop on "The Psycho-Spiritual Demands of Consecrated Life" concluded, with Fr. Ariel Tecson, RCJ as its facilitator. The workshop started last Saturday, October 24, and finished on October 31, both held in the morning.

Eight religious students were ordained Deacons, through the imposition of the hands of Most Rev. Jesse E. Mercado, D.D., Bishop of Parañaque, last September 14, 2020, Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross.

The St. Matthew Province held the “Webinar on Making an Annual Financial Plan” participated in by the Superiors / Responsible, Treasurers, Finance Officers and Heads of varied institutions, enterprises and foundations of the Circumscription.

The CORONA STUDY is a Phase 1/2 study that will test whether DeltaRex-G is safe, will improve the symptoms of COVID-19, and will hasten patient recovery from COVID-19.