Religious Education Handbooks

As a Catholic University, the University of Negros Occidental-Recoletos (UNO-R) provides opportunities for the members of the academe to enrich, deepen and practice their faith.

The Department of Religious Education (REED) offers four courses for tertiary level students—REEDBD1CO, REEDBL2CO, REEDCS3CO, and REEDCM4CO. These courses must be taken by college students to comply the academic requirements of their respective undergraduate degrees. But more than just simply a requirement, students enrolled in all REED courses are immersed in their Christian faith, that is, to know, experience, worship, love and serve the One True God in the person of Jesus Christ in his Church, the community of disciples.

To accompany this process of immersion, the department prints four handbooks to facilitate classroom instruction and discussion. These handbooks are named after the core topics of each REED course. They are as follows:

REVELATION AND FAITH, a REEDBD1CO Handbook course, covers basic Catholic doctrines on prayer, faith and scriptures.

CHRISTOLOGY, a REEDBL2CO Handbook, discusses about the life, person and mission of Jesus Christ.

CHURCH AND SACRAMENTS, a REEDCS3CO Handbook, delves into the nitty-gritty of the nature, mission and ministry of the Church and the seven Ritual Sacraments of the Church.

CHRISTIAN MORALITY, a REEDCM4CO Handbook, focuses on Christian anthropology, ethics and Ten Commandments.

For five years now, it has been the mission of the Religious Education Department to provide REED students with quality and affordable handbooks for their private use. And this mission has been transformed into a commitment on the members of the Religious Education Handbook Committee chaired by the Department Director, Rev. Fr. Cornelio E. Moral, OAR to sustain this noble work as our modest contribution to the work of evangelization of the University.

The celebration of the Year of Faith (2012-2013) inspired the Religious Education Handbook Committee to print for the first time a full-color cover edition of the four Religious Education Handbooks since first semester of June 2012.