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!!!