sentences:  He studied theology in the United States in 1951, and was ordained a priest by Cardinal Francis Spellman in 1954.With the Vatican II mandate of localisation of the Mass, Hontiveros began to write liturgical hymns in the 1960s.He wrote his first hymn for services at the Jesuit-administered parish at Barangka, Marikina, with the intent that it could be easily sung and learnt by ordinary Filipinos.