It was on November of 2014, at the national meeting with the Federation of Christian Ministries (FCM), that I felt a call from the Holy Spirit to come full circle with this community of relations to celebrate and affirm my original calling to the Catholic priesthood.  I was ordained into the priesthood as a Redemptorist on May 2, 1972, following my seminary training in the Philippines and completing my  Masters in Spirituality in 1970.  My transformational journey as a priest started in earnest after studying in Rome and was given the assignment of being the National Director of the Better World Movement in the Philippines. The Better World Movement integrated the humanness and spirituality formulated by the Vatican II Council.  I also felt quite privileged that Archbishop Milingo was one of my classmates.

I was incardinated as a Married Catholic Priest into the Ecumenical Catholic Prelature of S/S. Peter and Paul, Married Priests Now! and its related communities, nationally and internationally, and in particular the Good Shepherd Companions, an Ecumenical Catholic Ordinariate, by Bishops Robert and Virginia Graf on February 8, 2015.   Subsequently on June 17, 2017, I was consecrated a married Catholic Bishop in the Apostolic lineage of the Catholic Church through the consecration of Emmanuel Milingo by Pope Palul the Sixth and passed on to Archbishop William Manseau, D. Min. and Co-consecrating Bishops Bernard C Callahan, M.S.P.C.c., Joaquin Perez, D.D., Mary Eileen Collingwood, M.Th., and Joseph Francis Catrambone, D.D., M.Div., through Pope Francis’ inspiration for healing relationships in humanity in the service of transformation in the human journey of life and relations. 

In June 2017, I was elected president by the Board of Directors of the Good Shepherd Companions, an Ecumenical Catholic Ordinariate community to inspire an initiative to implement the vision and goals of Vatican Council II by building bridges of faith, hope and love. Shortly thereafter I became the Bishop Ordinary of the Good Shepherd Companions.  I am also a board member of The Married Priest Now! that is active in many parts of the world including the United States, Latin America, Africa, Italy, Austria and India.

A world view that my wife and I share is that we are more than just a collection of parts, for each part/piece of us contains our whole.  Our personal story contains a multitude of interactions transmitted to us by religion, culture, school, family, society, community, and world events, all affecting how we view life, our values, prejudices, biases, and beliefs about God, our world, and ourselves. We know that an event in the past can be threaded through the tapestry of our present world experience.  These many replications of patterns of interactions become our very own "dance," encoded in the many replications of familial, religious and cultural interaction.  These may now be our daily, unquestioned reality, taken as truth, defining how we live our lives, how we make meaning of what we see, hear and do, and how we relate to one another.  This is how I view the Roman Catholic Church, is their unquestioned reality and their only reality of celibate canonical priests as their only truth!

We can affect and influence the only view of the Roman Catholic Church in regards to celibate canonical priesthood.  I believe in Married Priests Now! and that together we can continue to create and have a greater influence that has more power, love, creativity, and wisdom than the myopic way of looking at the world.  Such that in expanding our world view from university to include diversity, we can allow possibilities and transformations in perception and understanding. We can heal ourselves from the stuckness of frozen patterns of how we relate to ourselves and others.  The more we can influence the world in the process of embracing the diverse parts of the Church, the less oppressive we become to one another, to women, to different colors, to different orientation, to our planet earth, and to humanity in general.  We joyously become inclusive vs. discriminatory, we become one of the sources of love, creativity and wisdom that allows the spirit to be free!!!

For over 30 years, my wife and I, along with many several conscious transformational change individuals, who appreciate the diversity of humanity and believe that conscious transformative leadership and include culturally competency, a holistic perspective, relational skills of compassion and reflection and professional behaviors wherein men, women of diverse religions, cultures, race, age, sexual orientation, are met with presence, light and love, and honor our relations in interdependent connectedness.  We derive great satisfaction in serving with a Higher Purpose and facilitating individuals, couples, families, groups and communities through transitions in their life journey and transformations for growth, healing and well-being and how to reconnect with their Body-Energy-Emotion-Heart-Mind-Soul-System-Spirit (BEEHMSSSTM) in their evolutionary and transformational Life Journey. 

It is the spirit of open-mindedness and inclusivity that is the core of my episcopacy.  IT is the Spirit of God, Life force and Divine Presence that can "intervene" in the goodness of humanity and heal the divisions that we replicate.  I am filled with gratitude for Christ-Spirit in my life and how that Presence is using me as an instrument of His Love and Light in the world.  Further blessing me with a life partner, to live and work according to His Purpose for my life and our life together on this earth."