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Rev Fr. Eduardo Jose Pardo Hontiveros, SJ (20 December 1923 – 15 January 2008), also known as "Fr. Honti", was a Filipino Jesuit composer and musician, best known as an innovative hymnwriter and the “Father of Philippine liturgical music".




Biography


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, Fr. Honti began to write liturgical hymns in the 1960s. He wrote his first hymn for services at the Jesuit-administered San Jose Manggagawa 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".
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. His publisher is the Ateneo-based Jesuit Music Ministry.




= Illness and death

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Fr. Honti 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. 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.




Legacy


In 2024, the Jesuit Communications Foundation, as tribute to Hontiveros’ 100th birth anniversary, organized a three-hour concert “Luwalhati sa Diyos: The Legacy of Father Honti” at Ateneo de Manila University’s Henry Lee Irwin Theater. It featured Bukas Palad Music Ministry, Himig Heswita, Pansol Choir, Tinig Barangka, and the Young Voices of the Philippines.




Awards


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


Jesuit Music Ministry - Fr. Hontiveros's publisher
Bukas Palad Music Ministry
Hangad




References






External links


Fr. Hontiveros' obituary and biography from the official Philippine Province of the Society of Jesus website
GMA pays tribute to Fr. Hontiveros- News report from Philstar
Homily during Fr. Hontiveros' Funeral Mass
Fr. Eduardo Hontiveros S.J. (By Teodoro Bacani Jr.)

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