Fr. Nelson Plohimon, OAR arrived in the CNMI last December 11, 2021 and immediately the following day he flew to the island of Rota to start his mission to serve the parishioners of San Isidro Labrador and San Francisco de Borja, together with his brother priests in the OAR community.
The Order of Augustinian Recollects (OAR) was founded in 1588 in Spain. Known as a mendicant Catholic religious order, the OAR follows the Rule of St. Augustine. Being mendicant means trusting the grace of God through the generosity of his people. As the order succinctly puts it, “Our desire is to follow Christ poor, needing little and having the goods in common, living with austerity, caring more for the common than for what is proper, and always thanking the Lord for his gifts, which we share with the poor and needy.”
This episode, similar to those we already did with the Adorno Fathers and Pastorelle Sisters and soon with the Jesuits, hopes to inspire our people, particularly the young, to consider the life of a religious or to just simply be better Catholics.
