Under the leadership of the national director Nick Libramonte and the officers of SLRAA, the San Lorenzo Ruiz & Scalabrini Center has become a welcoming home not only for the devotees of San Lorenzo but to everybody who comes for spiritual guidance, in search of cultural identity and for expression of faith. It is the original vision come true of the SLRAA.
We are grateful to the Scalabrini Fathers for helping the late Father Bobby Sison and the SLRAA in achieving their initial goal that paved the way for the San Lorenzo Ruiz & Scalabrini Center (the Center)--formerly known as the St. Charles House of Studies--and for their commitment to help and support us. When Fr. Bobby signed the lease, he believed that the Center will be an ideal place to start the programs for the Filipino community and to advance the projects for San Lorenzo Ruiz.
We are blessed that SLRAA has found a place where it can continue the bond that Father Bobby Sison initiated with the Scalabrini Fathers. Although we are established for the propagation of San Lorenzo Ruiz devotion, we are open to other devotions. We are developing new programs that will facilitate, and foster socio-cultural and spiritual growth of the Filipino-American migrants.
The Scalabrinian Fathers showed their sincerity and commitment to help and support us especially when they offered to sell the Center to the SLRAA. On March 15, 2012, SLRAA officially acquired the San Lorenzo Ruiz & Scalabrini Center.
When SLRAA celebrated its 30th anniversary in September 2012, owning th Center was a fitting accomplishment and a tribute to all the benefactors, supporters and friends, all the Hermanos and Hermanas Mayores, officers and the founding directors of SLRAA. Thank you to all of you. We invite you all to come and visit the San Lorenzo Ruiz & Scalabrini Center.