He was born to Lauro L. Larlar Sr. and Leonora V. Larlar, on 15 March 1951 in San Carlos City, Negros Occidental. He graduated from San Carlos South Elementary School in 1963 and entered Colegio de SantoTomas-Recoletos Seminary, now Santo Tomas de Villanueva-Recoletos from which he graduated in 1967. After finishing college studies at Seminario Mayor-Recoletos in Baguio City, a name which later reverted toCasiciaco Recoletos-Seminary (during his term as rector) in 1971, he entered the novitiate there under the novice master Fr. Cris Garnica and a year after professed the three monastic vows on 14 June 1972.
Thereafter, he studied his theology at Marcilla, Navarra, Spain and made his solemn profession on 19 October 1975. He received the diaconal ordination on 9 November 1975 and his presbyteral ordination on 11 July 1976 from the hands of the Archbishop of Pamplona at the Church of Nuestra Senora de la Blanca, in Marcilla, Navarra. His further studies were completed at Saint Louis University in Baguio City and University of Santo Tomas where he obtained his doctorate with the highest honors “meritissimus.” He also took up Augustinian courses at the Augustinianum in Rome. His conventual residence was in San Sebastian College Manila (1976-1979), Baguio (1979-1988), San Sebastian College-Manila as college president (1988-1994); Casiciaco Recoletos-Baguio as rector/prior (1994-1997); Recoletos Formation Center – Mira-nila QC as prior (1997-2003) and provincial curia QC as prior provincial (2003-2006, 2006-2009) and Casiciaco Recoletos as rector/prior again (2009-2012). He was for a very long time a vicarial councilor in the Vicariate of the Philippines and China, Province of Saint Nicholas of Tolentino.
Among the successful international conferences/congresses held during his term as prior provincial were the National Conference on OAR Heritage and History (2004), Festival of Recoletos Arts and Culture (2005) and Third OAR International Mission Congress (2006), that all took place at San Sebastian College-Manila. He delivered lectures on Saint Augustine, the OAR Constitutions, and Augustinian Thought and Spirituality and conducted innumerable recollections, retreats and spiritual exercises to novices, nuns, theology students, students, priests and lay professionals. He taught regularly every Saturday at the San Sebastian College of Law, Manila. Most of all, he has taught philosophy and languages at the Casiciaco Recoletos Seminary for a total of 19 years.