THE UNIVERSAL DANCE ALBUM
the catholic dance album from manuel3...dig it if u dare!





SONG OF SONGS CHRISTIAN MUSIC FESTIVAL JUNE 2008
manuel3 performance in TORUŃ, POLAND

Ok children of God...
things r back 2 semi-normal 4 the a minute...

Fr. Stan was cool...he said "Hi" 2 all of u...

Fun City was fun!!!

here is a new vid from June 20...

Just got a call from Fr. Stan 2 come 2 NY this week 2 help on some of the new project he's got coming out...so i'm flying out wednesday and then a HUGE weekend with family and music and love...my Grandpo Lopez who i am named after will b celebrating his 80th Birthday!!! so my aunt Rita is throwing a big FIESTA!!! and i got super fun gigs lined up with friends and family this weekend...as well as a rehearsal with a P-FUNK tribute band 4 a show @ Camp Euforia...taking lots of pics and vids...so please pray 4 me and my family

well...it has been a year this coming weekend since i traveled 2 Poland 4 the Song Of Songs Festival...but until now the performance has been kept in the vault...so 2 celebrate this special blessing, here is the complete show streamed on Poland radio...

manuel3 Full performance @ Song Of Songs June 28th, 2008

thnx 2 DJ Jedi 4 hosting
thnx 2 Poland 4 love

final vid of this past weekend's gigs...

ended the weekend on Flag Day playing a fundraiser 4 Honor Flight of the Quad Cities...a local chapter of the Honor Flight Network which flies America's veterans to Washington, D.C. to visit the memorials...

vid #3

vid #2

as promised, vid #1 from the weekend...more 2 follow

Anxiety proceeds from an ill-regulated desire to be delivered from the evil we experience, or to acquire the good to which we aspire; nevertheless, nothing aggravates evil and hinders good so much as anxiety and worry.
– St. Francis de Sales

this reminds of the Concluding Rite during the Liturgy of the Eucharist when after the The Lord's Prayer/Our Father the Priest says:

Deliver us, Lord, from every evil, and grant us peace in our day in your mercy keep us free from sin and protect us from all anxiety as we wait in joyful hope for the coming of our Savior, Jesus Christ.

I love the deepness of the Church!!!

let's stay 2gether during June shall we?

i'm gonna try something fun and post a song/vid/pic (or all 3 if God wills it) from each gig i have this month...and i'm playing lots and with many fantastic musicians!

so on the m3 SoundClick page here we go with the 1st...a cover u all know & love by Al Green taken from this past Saturday June 7th...

m3 sings Let's Stay Together

In her voyage across the ocean of this world, the Church is like a great ship being pounded by the waves of life's different stresses. Our duty is not to abandons ship but to keep her on her course.
– St. Boniface

Brothers and Sisters in Christ...

another very busy June as u can c...

I have...
-9 gigs
-4 family birthdays
-1 trip 2 a DCI show
-1 trip 2 Fun City

also will b adding a wednesday Mass and thursday Adoration w/ my babies during the summer...

Thank u Jesus 4 these many blessings!!!

can i post one mo' jam from the Redstone Room Sessions?
this is a little diddy i wrote back in December when i needed a song like this in the setlist i was putting 2gether at the time...i couldn't find a jam i thought would fit, so i wrote 1...

click 2 enlarge
Our Grandpo Vallejo

since my re-conversion back 2 the faith in 2001 all songs composed have been about scripture, the Lord, the Catholic faith, etc...but 4 the past couple of weeks i have been working after hours (and during hours) on 3 songs 4 my wife Risa's birthday (which is 2day)...she was always reminding me that i had not yet written any songs about her since the faith...(i say not true, she was in every one of those songs!...but i know what she meant)

i re-cut 'Day Dreaming' which is an Aretha Franklin song and one of her all time favs...'Quality Time' & 'I Call It U' are originals...thank u 2 Andy Crawford's guitar on 'Day Dreaming' and Ian Johnson's guitar on 'Quality Time'

SO, here they r 4 u 2 download and enjoy also...(she said it was cool)

Risa BDay Jams -> via the m3 SoundClick page

this went down last thursday...i love these guys!

Universal (outro - unreleased song)
Kingdom (Christ The King Mix)
We R The Light Of The World (traditional)

Pilgrimage to the Holy Land (May 8-15, 2009)

Here is the Vatican website re-cap of texts from the Pope's Visit 2 The Holy Land...
Holy Land 2009 All Texts

Thank U Jesus 4 ur protection on B16s pilgrimage...

"Is this a good thing? or are you slamming me for being flaky? lol"
-Jedi

no, it's a good thing DJ

U might remember DJ JEDI from the old Funk And Faith nights on emancipation radio...this is a catholic brother from
Detroit (sorry about the Pistons bro, LeBron is 2 tough) and now has some old and new shows happening on FNF PODOMATIC...

support this brother, drop him a comment...he is 1 of the good ones...
much love and blessings DJ

also, a wonderful musician with the kinda chords i dig named Margo B. Smith sent this vid over about the beauty of children...a tune off her album Sending A Prayer entitled "Precious Unborn Child"...show her love 2

¡atención! ¡atención!

saturday may 2nd i will b recording all day in the upper room...
and i will b streaming live the tracks it will produce...
so tune in 4 a bit if u can...
WATCH m3 STUDIOS

Squeeky Chair = BRILLIANT!

update people, update!

4 those of u following the Catholic Soul Revolution, we r here recording some new tracks with old and new friends alike...i'm trying 2 find a balance with family and music now that spring has sprung in the "Upper Room"...i'm gonna call Chris Padgett and c how he does it...pray 4 us

a release of the long-awaited D-major/manuel3 colab is in the works...possibly being picked up by Pauline Books & Media...more news later

also been recording some drum tracks 4 a Blueskillet album...original blues from the midwest...with a few songs written by manuel3...pray 4 Monica (will give birth on May 5)

i am also ordering more hard copies of all the manuel3 cds 2 date...so if u haven't checked out any m3 music, please feel free 2 browse the official m3 website

now that Easter is here, i'm trying 2 get work on a new album...songs r coming from every direction and genre...i can't push record fast enough!!! i will try and stream more of the recording process on the m3tv stream page and have also embedded a small player on the homepage of the blog...check it out, if u dig that type of thing

keep praying every1...God is Love

Me and my sister Jacqueline on an Easter Sunday...i was mayb 4ish?

ALLELUIA!!!

Holy Thursday

To be immersed in the Truth, in Christ – part of this process is prayer, in which we exercise our friendship with him and we come to know him: his way of being, of thinking, of acting. Praying is a journey in personal communion with Christ, setting before him our daily life, our successes and failures, our struggles and our joys – in a word, it is to stand in front of him. But if this is not to become a form of self-contemplation, it is important that we constantly learn to pray by praying with the Church. Celebrating the Eucharist means praying. We celebrate the Eucharist rightly if with our thoughts and our being we enter into the words which the Church sets before us. There we find the prayer of all generations, which accompany us along the way towards the Lord.

- Pope Benedict XVI

1 Peter 5.6-9
Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that in due time he may exalt you. Cast all your anxieties on him, for he cares about you. Be sober, be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking some one to devour. Resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same experience of suffering is required of your brotherhood throughout the world.

back 2 gigs and recording some songs in the upper room...planning on getting jams down this Lent 4 Lent 2010...

until then peep this about St. Joseph...

In the course of that pilgrimage of faith which was his life, Joseph, like Mary, remained faithful to God's call until the end. While Mary's life was the bringing to fullness of that fiat first spoken at the Annunciation, at the moment of Joseph's own "annunciation" he said nothing; instead he simply "did as the angel of the Lord commanded him" (Mt 1:24). And this first "doing" became the beginning of "Joseph's way." The Gospels do not record any word ever spoken by Joseph along that way. But the silence of Joseph has its own special eloquence, for thanks to that silence we can understand the truth of the Gospel's judgment that he was "a just man" (Mt 1:19).

this excerpt is from an Apostolic Exhortation given by John Paul II on August 15th 1989 entitled Redemptoris Custos...translates 2 "Guardian of the Redeemer"

if u wanna do something special 4 the Feast of St. Joseph (March 19)...u can read it

St. Joseph, Faithful guardian of Christ...pray 4 us

From the day Peter confessed that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God, the Master "began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things. . . and be killed, and on the third day be raised." Peter scorns this prediction, nor do the others understand it any better than he. In this context the mysterious episode of Jesus' Transfiguration takes place on a high mountain, before three witnesses chosen by himself: Peter, James and John. Jesus' face and clothes become dazzling with light, and Moses and Elijah appear, speaking "of his departure, which he was to accomplish at Jerusalem". A cloud covers him and a voice from heaven says: "This is my Son, my Chosen; listen to him!" (CCC 554)

The Transfiguration is one of my wife's favorite days in the church...so this post is 4 her...i love u lovies

The Lord continually calls us closer through the liturgical year as u all know, so this Lent let us rock!


Here is the Vatican transcript of the B16 Message For Lent 2009

As 4 the m3 ministry, we've been recently turning on the power in the "Upper Room" here at m3 studio's despite the 12 gigs i've had this Feb. Whew!!!...I thank my wife and children 4 their patience...

new music 4 Lent coming...

Pray, Pray, Pray...

Happy B-Day 2 my Grandma Vallejo..."Friend or Foe"

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Fr. Stan lost his mother Constantina Sarabales Fortuna 2 cancer yesterday evening. In an email sent out he wrote, "Her passing was as smooth as the most amazing sunrise you have ever seen - thanks be to God Who is Love."

Please remember "Connie" and the Fortuna's in ur prayers on this Our Lady of Lourdes day...

Feb very busy with gigs...Thanks b 2 God

Have some cool vid 2 post with a band i've been jamming with when i can...news @ 11

St. Blaise pray 4 us and my throat so i can sing 2morrow...

From Zenit

VATICAN CITY, JAN. 23, 2009 (Zenit.org).- The Vatican launched today a channel on YouTube that will provide video news clips on the Pope's activities, currently in four languages, including English.



One or two video clips will be provided each day at www.youtube.com/vatican

The 44th President of the United States

Adoration is the first act of the virtue of religion. To adore God is to acknowledge him as God, as the Creator and Savior, the Lord and Master of everything that exists, as infinite and merciful Love. "You shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve," says Jesus, citing Deuteronomy.

- CCC 2096