The Dia de la Unidad was the high point of a series of services in Spanish which he initiated for his Spanishspeaking parishioners. Assigned to St. John the Evangelist Church In the outer mission In 1966. he worked with the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee and joined Cesar Chavez and the procession of migrant workers on their Lenten walk from Delano to Sacramento. During the same period he worked with Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co. to bring job interviews into the mission district community. He was also active in efforts to assure community participation in redevelopment plans for the mission.