Cora Therese Lopez was born monday sept 12...thanks b 2 God

as my wife and i expect r 4th child in just days, we r chillin' and getting ready 4 the fall...had a huge summer of gigs and thanks b 2 God 4 that...please continue 2 pray 4 us and the ministry and all the work the Lord has cut out 4 us...more music is soon 2 come!

the latest jam is on the new album by Pontifex aka Fr. Burns who is an ordained priest from Indiana...along with a sample done by the great D-Major, i played and sang on a track called "Cold Castle Blues"...check it out above and download the album here...it is wonderful...God Bless

Prayers and safe travels 4 those returning home from WYD...

Excerpt from the Homily by the Pope at Final Mass:
  
"Dear young friends, as the Successor of Peter, let me urge you to strengthen this faith which has been handed down to us from the time of the Apostles. Make Christ, the Son of God, the centre of your life. But let me also remind you that following Jesus in faith means walking at his side in the communion of the Church. We cannot follow Jesus on our own. Anyone who would be tempted to do so “on his own”, or to approach the life of faith with kind of individualism so prevalent today, will risk never truly encountering Jesus, or will end up following a counterfeit Jesus.

Having faith means drawing support from the faith of your brothers and sisters, even as your own faith serves as a support for the faith of others. I ask you, dear friends, to love the Church which brought you to birth in the faith, which helped you to grow in the knowledge of Christ and which led you to discover the beauty of his love. Growing in friendship with Christ necessarily means recognizing the importance of joyful participation in the life of your parishes, communities and movements, as well as the celebration of Sunday Mass, frequent reception of the sacrament of Reconciliation, and the cultivation of personal prayer and meditation on God’s word." - Pope Benedict XVI

August 21, 2011
Madrid

2 all the WYD people..prayers r with u this week..especially my brother...love

thank u 2 Augie Leal and all the SHINE young adults in Chicago...what a funky time...thank u again 2 Jaime, Ian, and Curtis...
here is a taste of audio mixed with vid every now and then...check it OUT!!!

the Pope has had about a million "tweets" by now...
summer is super busy! as u can c by my lack of posts...

many, many gigs and shows and alot of preperation in2 those gigs and shows...

thank u 2 my wife and children 4 their continued support of my music!

the fellas and i r heading back 2 Chicago 2 play for SHINE Catholic Work Camp this friday...u will remember last year we played 4 this and it was fantastic...check out more info here

we thank Augie Leal and his wonderful family 4 letting us back in...the show will b great as we r playing some new music and looking back in2 the 60s with some cool Staple Singers classics...we all love Mavis Staples around here and we can't wait 2 take some gospel 2 Chitown!

will update and post some vid and audio when we get back...

please pray 4 us!

until then stay cool in this heat...wade in the water children!

wow...time flies

Fr Stan visit was great...mucho fun...we played alot of music 2gether...was able 2 take the mobile studio and grab him on a couple of new tracks..."dig me now"?

more later...

heading 2 St. Paul / Minneapolis area to jam with both my Uncle who lives up north and Fr. Stan who is in towns...should b a fun time...gonna try and also record a couple things with Father while i am up there 4 some new m3 stuff...thanks and love 2 my family for supporting my spiritual and musical wants and needs...i love u all

Now all the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there spent their time in nothing except telling or hearing something new.
So Paul, standing in the middle of the Are-op'agus, said: "Men of Athens, I perceive that in every way you are very religious. For as I passed along, and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription, 'To an unknown god.' What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you.
The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in shrines made by man, nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all men life and breath and everything.
And he made from one every nation of men to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their habitation, that they should seek God, in the hope that they might feel after him and find him. Yet he is not far from each one of us, for 'In him we live and move and have our being'; as even some of your poets have said, 'For we are indeed his offspring.' Being then God's offspring, we ought not to think that the Deity is like gold, or silver, or stone, a representation by the art and imagination of man. The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all men everywhere to repent, because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed, and of this he has given assurance to all men by raising him from the dead." Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, "We will hear you again about this."
So Paul went out from among them. But some men joined him and believed, among them Dionys'ius the Are-op'agite and a woman named Dam'aris and others with them.

- Acts 17

Happy Easter Season!

2 celebrate Easter here is a song written back in the day called "Idle Tale"...taken from Luke 24:10...

"Now it was Mary Mag'dalene and Jo-an'na and Mary the mother of James and the other women with them who told this to the apostles; but these words seemed to them an idle tale, and they did not believe them."

random pics from google images...
all sounds by me...