The Institute for Consecrated Life in Asia would like to personally invite you to a weeklong retreat specifically designed for the laity.  This retreat is scheduled for April 6 to 11 to be held at ICLA-Moraleda Hall.  It will be facilitated by Sr. Iňigo Joachim, SSA (Congregation of St. Anne’s of Chennai, India).  Participants are expected to be at the ICLA Community on the evening of April 6 for dinner – they will be joined by the team of facilitators to welcome them and at the same time to get-to-know the other participants.

Diliman, QC. – Mrs. Tess Araňa-Pagunuran, former Head of ICLA’s Academic Department peacefully joined her creator last November 30, 2012.  She was survived by her husband, Primer Pagunuran and her children, Mary Alyssa Chloe, Karl Andrei  Weil and Neils.  Mrs. Pagunuran or Ate Tess as she is fondly called by colleagues and students succumbed to cancer.  She was interred last, December 06, 2012 at the Paraiso Memorial Park in San Mateo, Rizal after a Eucharistic celebration at the Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish.  

Diliman, QC. - Sr. Evifania Sonar Sinaga, a soft spoken religious sister from North Sumatra, Indonesia, successfully defended her thesis last November 26, 2012.  The thesis defense was held at ICLA Compound, two o’clock in the afternoon.  The title of her research was “The Study of Women’s Leadership in Toba Batak Society:  A Mission Priority for the FCJM Congregation.”  With  only minor revisions required, she bagged the grade Magna Cum Laude for her thesis. Sr. Evifania, or Sr. Evie to her colleagues is a member of  the Franciscan Sisters Daughters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Mary.  She had her perpetual profession seven years ago.  She graduated with the degree,  Licentiate and Master of Arts in Theology major in Consecrated Life.

Where is the Spirit Leading Religious Life? 50 years after Vatican II

Diliman, QC. - Ever since the 2^nd Vatican Counsel rapid cultural, political and economic changes have taken place around the globe.  One of the most important change that has taken place in the 60’s was  the decolonization of the African nations.  This was also the implementation of the cultural revolution in China and the persecution of intellectuals and free thinkers.  The 70’s saw the increase of spending by the American government to sustain the war in Vietnam only to be defeated in the end.