Eduardo Hontiveros

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The Very Reverend

Father Eduardo P. Hontiveros

SJ PMM(Ph)

Personal details

Birth name Eduardo Pardo Hontiveros

Born December 20, 1923

Molo, Iloilo, Philippine Islands

Died January 15, 2008 (aged 84)

Quezon City, Philippines

Musical career

Also known as Father Honti

Origin Composer, Singer

Genres Worship, Inspirational,Classical

Occupation(s) priest
musician

Instruments Piano, accordion

Years active 1960–1972, 1986–1999

Labels Jesuit Music Ministry (JMM)

Associated Tinig Barangka, Himig Heswita, Bukas Palad Music

acts Ministry, Hangad, Jesuit Music Ministry (as

composer)

Rev Fr Eduardo Pardo Hontiveros, SJ PMM(Ph) (20 December 1923 – 15 January 2008), also known as "Fr. Honti", was
a Filipino Jesuit composer and musician, best known as an innovative hymnwriter behind popular Philippine liturgical music.
 Contents

 1Biography
o 1.1Illness and death
 2Awards
 3See also
 4References
 5External links

Biography[edit]
He was born in Molo, Iloilo City, one of eight siblings, to José Hontiveros and Vicenta Pardo. He studied at the Capiz
Elementary School and transferred to Ateneo de Manila High School, graduating in 1939. He entered the San José
Seminary from 1939 to 1945, and entered the Society of Jesus in 1945; he professed his simple vows in 1947. 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. This brought about the tradition of Filipino popular hymnody which was later labelled "Jesuit
Music".[1]
His more famous hymns include a setting for the Tagalog text of the Gloria, "Papuri sa Diyos", "Magnificat (Ang Puso Ko'y
Nagpupuri)", "Maria, Bukang-Liwayway" (lit. "Mary, Dawn"), "Pananagutan" ("Responsibility"), among many others. His
works have been published and sung in many parishes in the Philippines and in other countries as well; his "Papuri" has been
sung at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.[2] His publisher is the Ateneo-based Jesuit Music Ministry.
Illness and death[edit]
Hontiveros suffered a stroke in 1991, affecting his mobility and ability to communicate. On 4 January 2008, he was found lying
unconscious in a hallway of the Loyola House of Studies in Quezon City and physicians later determined that he had suffered
another stroke.[3] He was pronounced dead on 15 January 2008, and among the attendees at his funeral on 19 January
were President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, who presented a posthumous award for his work.[4]

Awards[edit]
 1976 - Tanglaw ng Lahi Awards (Ateneo de Manila University)
 1992 - Asian Catholic Publisher’s Outstanding Catholic Author Award
 2000 - Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice
 2008 - Presidential Medal of Merit (posthumous)

See also[edit]
 Jesuit Music Ministry - Fr. Hontiveros's publisher
 Bukas Palad Music Ministry
 Hangad

References[edit]
1. ^ [1]
2. ^ "SEEING CHRIST IN THE WORLD : The Ministry of Jesuit Communications". Adnu-
alum.org. Archived from the original on 29 March 2015. Retrieved 18 December 2014.
3. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-01-23. Retrieved 2008-01-21.
4. ^ [2][dead link]

External links[edit]
 Eduardo Hontiveros (1923-2008) - Fr. Hontiveros' obituary and biography from the official
Philippine Province of the Society of Jesus website
 President Arroyo pays tribute to Fr. Hontiveros[permanent dead link] - News report from ABS-CBN
Interactive
 Message of Condolence - eulogy of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo at Fr. Hontivero's
funeral mass
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