Memories of Fr. Joey
When am still in elementary, I remember Fr. Joey was still a seminarian and I usually see him playing basketball during summer. All seminarians coming from Lucban have their own team called Eprotz (if read backwards its torpe) who joins the basketball league organized by the municipal government. I don’t know but I guess seminarians have always been so attractive to women that they always have so many fans to cheer for them. Their team was great and was always running for championship. Fr. Joey was good in basketball and as far as I remember he always gets an award every season. Also, he was this man whose socks were up to his knees which make him more remarkable to me. Whenever there are some conflicts with the players, he’s the one who gather the players to calm down.
I remember when I attended his Cantamisa (his very first mass after his ordination), he was really sweating coz of kaba. He even made a mistake during the mass something like he messed up with the sequence of the mass and everybody including him laughed which made him produce more sweats.
Fr. Joey came from a well-off family and they owned the only hospital in Lucban which at that time was called Faller’s Hospital. He looked like his brother Jerry who is my friend and was also a doctor (which we always asked his service for the medical missions).
Now, Fr. Joey made a name of his own and I even joked him last holy week if he’s a celebrity that most of the people were asking a picture with him. One thing for sure, I (and I guess the whole town) am so glad with what he did as he chose his project Kamay ni Hesus be located in his and our hometown Lucban.
