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 sample

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