posted on the Catholic Underground Chicago facebook page a week ago 2day...

and it WAS awesome...thank u 2 all those who attended, please keep supporting the catholic artists who r called 2 praise His name in song...so now, re-live the show recorded live on ustream...

Fr. Stan is here now...this was released yesterday on the Francesco Newsletter...

"Fr. Stan is busy on his next album entitled "Seraphic Wanderer". Manuel3, another talented Catholic musician, is collaborating with him on various tracks this week. Manuel and his family are hosting Fr. Stan; entrenched in Manuel's home studio, they are working to finish mixing the album and aiming for a May release."

so that's what's going down...i am blessed...thank u Jesus!!!

i love my wife and family 4 continued support of the work God has called me 2...

pray 4 us...

manuel3 and D-Major have released 1 of the jams from r session 2gether back in 2007...and m3 has a new song recorded especially 4 this project on Aftermass Records...4 Haiti Relief people!


now, the Catholic Underground Chicago show is going 2 b slammin!

the band has been giving me so much of their time and talent...i am truly blessed!
thank u jamie, curtis, ian, & macario

thank u 2 my wife and children who've also given me time 2 get the show 2gether...i love u

we will b streaming live the final rehearsal 4 the show on Saturday Jan 30th @ 3pm CT and also streaming the show live from the JP2 Center of the UIC campus...if u cannot make the show in Chi-Town, please check it out here

and Fr. Stan will b here @ m3studios on 2.4 2 work a final session in 4 his new album...so stay tuned...will also b streaming some of that, hmmm?

we r Losties here @ the Lopez household...if u saw this Lost post u'll remember...my wife and i really don't watch TV at all...when we do, besides Project Runway, this is a show we dig...bcuz of my brother Macario

the final season has come...

manuel3 live @ the redstone room 1.9.10

MILESTONES
m3 - keys
jamie h - drums
spencer z - bass
ian j - gtr
manny l - trpt
eddie m - sax

Blessed 2 b featured in a local paper...thanks b 2 God!!!

read the article here

thank u 2 Stephanie 4 the opp...LOST fans unite!!!

"Touch is the greatest thing on earth, Amen...thank the Lord 4 some sense of touch."
- Ray Charles

Merry Christmas Ya'll!!!

like Vince Guaraldi's "Christmas Time Is Here", this has become a staple during the Christmas Season...recorded the day after Christmas back in 07 with D-Major @ m3studios...

Jesus Is Coming

the beginning 4 the Church ya’ll
the new year starts 2day
it’s like the times square ball
when the baby Jesus lay

tis the month of the Feasts
so many I can’t keep count
Our Lady Of Guadalupe
Juan Diego there no doubt

my baby’s baking cookies
my children runnin round
Advent candle burning
Guaraldi getting down

keep ur eye on Jesus
like u keep ur eye on the star
the 3 kings r coming
Epiphany ain’t 2 far

get ur soul all ready
2 receive the Lord of Lords
practice all ur carols
better check out all the chords

Jesus is coming won’t u rejoice with me
an angel done told me in Bethelehem we’ll c
a brand new baby, the Prince of Peace He’ll b
everybody gaze upon the Lord, get down on ur knees!!!

written back in 04 on a cold iowa city nite, but oh so warm every Advent Season...

Advent

The coming of Christ
Is found in a girl
Not just any girl
chosen from this world

Hail full of grace
But how could this b
The Lord is with u
2 me let it b

Beautiful Mother Mary
God would ask u 2 carry
The Word in the womb
And power would bloom
4 all, the call

a women’s in need
no time 2 b queen
a leap from a man
baptism 4seen

u hold in urself
the creator of u
but no room in this world
a manger would do

Do not b afraid
He will b so great
And of his kingdom
There will b no end

some jams i always post this time of year...

here is an mp3 of Do U Hear

i originally wrote this demo 4 Lynn Cooper as possible inclusion on a Christmas album she released back in 2006...

if i remember correctly all the songs had already been chosen 4 her project, but she promised she would b singing the chorus around the house 4 the rest of the season :)

Do U Hear

do u hear what i hear
tis the season of cheer
this is when Bethlehem shines
and the Savior is born
in the fullness of time

snow on the ground
Nativity bound
we r just grateful 2 believe

in the still of the night
a babe would light
4 all of the nations 2 receive

a virgin is how
the kings knew 2 bow
a manger would hold His only Son

the Word of God
truly the way
and i feel the love on Christmas Day

and oh how long
did prophets long
2 c the Christ

In the Gospel for the Fourth Sunday in Advent, the angel Gabriel greets Mary in an unusual way: “Hail, favored one” (see Luke 1:28).

Kecharitomene, the Greek word translated as “favored one,” is very rare, used in only one other place in the New Testament. It comes from charis, the Greek word for “grace” and basically means “made full of grace” or “transformed by grace.”

This is how the word is used in Paul’s letter to the Ephesians, where he describes how God “granted” His grace to all of us in Jesus (see Ephesians 1:6-7). This sheds light on what the angel means - Mary has been “transformed by God’s grace.”

Notice that the angel doesn’t mention Mary’s name. That’s odd, too. There’s no other angelic greeting like this in Scripture. It’s as if Mary’s name is “favored one” or “made full of grace.”

In Scripture, when God gives a person a new name, it reveals the person’s role in His saving plan. Think of Abraham - the father of all nations (see Genesis 17:5), or Peter, the Church’s “rock” (see Matthew 16:18). Mary is God’s favored one, transformed by God’s grace to be the sinless mother of His only-begotten Son.

That’s why the angel’s greeting is one of the biblical foundations for Mary’s Immaculate Conception, which we celebrate December 8.

- Dr. Scott Hahn
St. Paul Center For Biblical Theology

well, let's reflect 1 more once on NCYC 2009 b4 Jesus comes...

FRIDAY NOV. 20th 2009

as far as i know, no vid has surfaced of the Popple/m3 colab during Popple's set @ NCYC...we performed "T-Fig" and "Papal Disco" w Kyle and Dan...it was dope!

6pm...here r some pics...


8-11pmish...and after the Popple set...the m3 trio headed over 2 the Hotel Phillips 2 play club "12 Baltimore"...the Phatmass crew and Popple and company along with other NCYC adults came over and partied with us...it was super-fun...wish i had some vid...but this collage will have 2 do


SATURDAY NOV. 21st 2009

12:30pm...m3 trio @ The Oasis Cafe stage


1:15pm...here is a vid of Jamie, Curtis, and manuel3 jamming @ the "In Jesus Name I Play" booth on 11.21...featuring founder and guitarist Augie Leal...


1:30pm...and moments later this went down...here is a cool behind the scenes vid of a shoot 4 Spirit Juice Studios...thank u 2 Rob Kaczmark 4 including us in his ministry...


5pm...Phatmass and m3...2gether @ last


BONUS:
11.14...here is a bonus vid from a rehearsal 4 the show...


the full rehearsal mp3 can b listened 2 here


special love and gratitude go 2 my wife and family, Jamie Hopkins and his family, and the one and only Curtis Hawkins...

Advent Week 1
the waiting begins...

WOW!!!

a week ago 2day about this time, Fr. Stan visited m3 studios once again 2 mix and record some new material 4 his new album...it's gonna be fantastico!!! this vid of my daughter and Father is the only proof i have...she made the "what's up window" over at the Francesco Productions site...

Wis 7:22b–8:1

In Wisdom is a spirit
intelligent, holy, unique,
Manifold, subtle, agile,
clear, unstained, certain,
Not baneful, loving the good, keen,
unhampered, beneficent, kindly,
Firm, secure, tranquil,
all-powerful, all-seeing,
And pervading all spirits,
though they be intelligent, pure and very subtle.

Fr. Stan will b here in m3 studios on 11.16
we will b working on mixing his new album...Alleluia!!!

file under Pope and music...

"Music is a part of all cultures and, we might say, accompanies every human experience, from pain to pleasure, from hatred to love, from sadness to joy, from death to life...We see how, over the course of the centuries and millennia, music has always been used to give a form to that which we are not able to speak in words, because it awakens emotions that are difficult to communicate otherwise. So it is not by chance that every civilization has placed such importance and value on music in its various forms and expressions." - Pope Benedict XVI

- Pope B16 Address After Piano Concert 10.17.09

c the video...

update...
things r happening...

getting 20min set 2gether 4 NCYC in Kansas City...
will b streaming rehearsal for KC show on 10.29.09...
also, confirmed that m3 will per4rm with Popple in KC...
check out the coming of the new Popple album right here
also confirmed, m3 will jam with Sammy Blaze in KC también...and P5C as well...

Fr. Stan coming 2 m3studios mid-nov??? hmmmm...

and late-breaking news...just in...manuel3 @ Catholic Underground Chicago on 2.3.10...oh Jesus, I love U!!!

news @ 11

"The Rosary, though clearly Marian in character, is at the heart a Christocentric prayer. In the sobriety of its elements, it has all the depth of the Gospel message in its entirety, of which it can be said to be a compendium. . . . Through the Rosary the faithful receive abundant grace, as though from the very hands of the Mother of the Redeemer"

Apostolic Letter On The Most Holy Rosary, ROSARIUM VIRGINIS MARIAE - JP2 10.02

as many of u know, jazz music plays a huge part in my life...so i've recently been streaming some jazz videos on a new Ustream page called JAZZ VIDS...usually streaming in the AM...so check it out if u dig jazz from the past, present, and future

have u prayed 2 ur Guardian Angel 2day?

From its beginning until death, human life is surrounded by their watchful care and intercession. Beside each believer stands an angel as protector and shepherd leading him to life. Already here on earth the Christian life shares by faith in the blessed company of angels and men united in God.

-CCC 336

"As he did with Augustine, so the Lord comes to meet each one of you. He knocks at the door of your freedom and asks to be welcomed as a friend. He wants to make you happy, to fill you with humanity and dignity...

The Christian faith is this: encounter with Christ, the living Person who gives life a new horizon and thereby a definitive direction. And when the heart of a young person opens up to his divine plans, it is not difficult to recognize and follow his voice."

Pope B16 2 the youth of the Czech Republic 9.28.09

L.A. is still calling...


watch more of the performance here: m3 live @ CULA - 9.19.09

thank u 2 tiffani, jessica, doug, danny, paul, and all the catholic brothers and sisters who attend CULA...God Bless U all

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARY...
MOTHER OF OUR SAVIOR...
WE LOVE U AND THANK U 4 UR "YES"

manuel3 was 1 of 9 artists featured on a Catholic Music Special that aired on Ave Maria Radio this Labor Day Weekend...

here is a direct link 2 listen 2 this wonderful special online - m3sounds Gcast - My Catholic Radio

thank u 2 Bill Kassel and Ave Maria Radio 4 including me on this special

Massmatics: Catholic Hip-Hop - Volume 2

manuel3 has a joint on this new comp from the Phatmass crew...it features Animosity from The Uniphonics...show dUSt & PM some love by purchasing a copy like 2day!!!

B16 got his cast off yesterday...he had tripped and fell back in mid-July

"the result, overall, can be described as excellent,"
-Dr. Patrizio Polisca, the pope's chief physician

Then the man said, "This at last is bone of my bones..."
Gen. 2:23

Manuel Lopez III: Drummer, pianist, composer continues musical family tradition

newspaper interview 8.15.09

The most deadly poison of our times is indifference. And this happens, although the praise of God should know no limits. Let us strive, therefore, to praise Him to the greatest extent of our powers.

– St. Maximilian Kolbe

JUST CONFIRMED

manuel3 will b in Hollywood as the guest artist in the September installment of Catholic Underground LA...news @ 11

Anyone who wishes to frolic with the devil cannot rejoice with Christ.
– St. Peter Chrysologus

Main Entry:
3. frolic
Function:
noun
Date:
1616

1: a playful or mischievous action 2 a: an occasion or scene of fun : party b: fun, merriment