16th National Conference for Religious Educators (NCRE) this October focuses on Jubilee Year |October 26-27, 2024 | The opening plenary is by Fr. Daniel Franklin E. Pilario, C.M., president of Adamson University. Fr. Danny is a member of the Congregation of the Mission (Vincentians) and a contextual theologian and writer. He is a professor and was a former dean of St. Vincent School of Theology. Fr. Danny will present the current landscape of the Philippine Church in need of hope.

Two breakout sessions will follow offering different topics. For Breakout Session 1, there are 7 topics on hope to choose from:

A – Rejoice in Hope: Christ’s Hope in the Family (Maria Elisa A. Borja, Ph.D.)

B – A Look at Mary as Model and Beacon of Hope for the Filipinos (Maria Lowella I. Calderon, M.A.)

C – Pastorality: The Unrealized Hope of Gaudium et Spes (Kenjie I. Cortez, M.A.)

D – Discerning and Creating a Hope-filled Future for and With the Youth (Tinnah M. dela Rosa, M.A.)

E – The Ignatian Heroes' Journey Towards a Hope-Filled Future (Edilberto Isidore C. Jimenez, M.A.)

F – Imagining the Good and Possible (Edwin B. Odulio, Ph.D.)

G – Journeying in Hope: Insights from Gabriel Marcel and Jürgen Moltmann (Teofilo Giovan S. Pugeda III, M.A.)

For Breakout Session 2, there are 6 topics on hope to choose from:

A – Unbinding Religious Education: A Critical Realist Approach (Justin Joseph G. Badion, Ph.D.)

B – Biblical Sabbath and Jubilee: Hope for Ecological Conversion through Religious Education (John Paul A. Bolano, Ph.D.)

C – Responding to the Acedia of our Students with Hope (Stephanie Ann Y. Puen, Ph.D.)

D – “Sustainable Community Hermeneutics”: Seeing Hope in the Homemaking Journey of Biblical and Present Women-in-Displacement (Marnie D. Racaza, Ph.D. cand.)

E – The Incarnation as Pagdamay: Christology and the Non-human (Aaron C. Reyes, M.A.)

F – Contemplating Hope: Integrating the Kerygma and the Via Pulchritudinis in Religious Education (Lesley Anne A. Rosal, M.A.)

The conference will close with a plenary session by Fr. Arnel C. Aquino, S.J. on sending off the participants with jubilant hope as religious educators and catechists. Fr. Arnel is a full-time professor of systematic theology at Loyola School of Theology. He has written many beautiful liturgical songs including “Pagsibol” and “Ito Ang Araw” even while at Sacred Heart Novitiate, and created the tradition of Jesuit Music for Meditation through the LAUDS series recorded by JesCom.

For more information, follow the links below:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AteneoNCRE
Website: https://www.ateneo.edu/.../16th-national-conference... 

Center for Empirical Studies in Spirituality, Theology and Religion-Asia (CESSTREL-Asia)

invites you to the 

2024 International Conference on
YOUTH and SPIRITUALITY TODAY
(Theoretical and Empirical Studies)

Keynote speakers:
Dr. Jayeel S. Cornelio, PhD
Dr. Rito Baring, PhD

St. Vincent School of Theology is proud to announce the new graduates during the Adamson University 82nd Commencement Exercises last October 22, 2020. We congratulate the following: Ma. Karen Papellero, MA (Meritissimus), AB Philosophy Graduates: Aries Robinson Casa, Juan Miguel Dela Merced, John Robie Delos Reyes, Jason Lagrio, Aldrich Elvy Logatoc, John Rustin Martin, Gabriel Zachary Reyes, Ken Arvin Valerio. MA in Theology major in Sytematic Studies: Rene Angeles, Jonathan Aparicio, Adah Emmanuel Audu, Joey Balunsat, Nelia Barja, Bernardus Beda, Reynan Zarraga Bongolto, Maricar Carillo, Glenn Del Rosario, Ismael Del Rosario, Valentin Diola III, Avy Ecaranum, Rowena Encinas, Rhomel Yale Frontuna, Benito Hate, Vicenta Hombrebueno, Dear Jara, Rex Morales, Nerlmalyn Palomo, Teofilo Quilas Jr., Michelle Quintos, Toshihiko Tanabe.

The whole St. Vincent School of Theology community celebrates its yearly tradition of the SVST Day with a parade, games, a boodle meal, a Vincentian talk and a program showcasing the students' talents.

The SVST community celebrates its yearly tradition of Feast of Cultures with the Theme:"Kulturang Iba-iba para sa Aba Nagkakaisa!