Landas Vol. 37 No. 2 (2025)

This year 2025, we celebrate LST’s 60th anniversary as a theological school with the theme “Life, Leadership, and Legacy.” The Loyola House of Studies School of Theology and Ecclesiastical Studies (LHS STES) was inaugurated on September 12, 1965, the Feast of the Holy Name of Mary, by His Eminence Rufino Cardinal Santos, D.D., then Archbishop of Manila, as the Second Vatican Council—the single most significant ecclesial and doctrinal event of the twentieth century—was drawing to a close. On March 28, 1972, the School of Theology and Ecclesiastical Studies was renamed the Loyola School of Theology (LST). LST, in this sense, may rightly be called a child of the Council, born of its spirit of aggiornamento and ressourcement, the twin principles that serve as hermeneutical keys to its vision of renewal. Across six decades, through the challenges of institutional growth and consolidation, it has stood as a vital center of intellectual, spiritual, and ministerial formation, serving diocesan seminarians, Religious scholastics, and lay students not only in the Philippines but also across Asia and beyond, forming them to be faithful, effective, and creative ministers and proclaimers of the Gospel in a rapidly changing world. A concise yet substantive account of LST’s 60-year history is presented in the article “The First Sixty Years of Loyola School of Theology,” which is included under Documentation.