FOR Fr. Melchor Villero serving in the missionary has been his livelihood.
Villero, the pastor at Precious Blood Elementary School and St. Kevin Church in Los Angeles, has spent 18 years as a missionary in Guatemala and Mexico. He has worked with the Maya Qeqchi Indians and the Basic Ecclesial Communities.
Villero is a member of the Missionaries of Jesus, a group of priests that are committed to “discover and uncover the face of Jesus Christ hidden in every human - scarred by poverty, ignorance, indifference, injustice and selfishness.”
“We continue to believe that as we allow ourselves to be inspired by His spirit that we can together build a new humanity rooted in Jesus,” he wrote on the Missionaries of Jesus website.
Born in Manila, Villero was ordained a missionary priest on March 1976.
He has served as Rector and Postulant Director at Maryhurst Seminary (CICM) in Baguio City, the Philippines from 1996-1999, according to his bio.
He was also appointed Superior of the pioneering team of Filipino missionaries assigned to Mozambique, Africa serving from 2000-2002 and afterwards assigned as treasurer of the Missionaries of Jesus, treasurer of the Diocesan Seminary of Antipolo, confessor, and professor in the Philippines.
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