October 2010
50 posts
September 2010
49 posts
“By the same light of grace the soul can see spiritually the beauty of angels and...”
– Walter Hilton
Rare St. Michael Prayer from St. Leo XIII
Most glorious Prince of the Heavenly Armies, Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in “our battle against principalities and powers, against the rulers of this world of darkness, against the spirits of wickedness I the high places” (Ephes., VI, 12). Come to the assistance of men whom God has created to His likeness and whom He has redeemed at a great price from the tyranny of the devil. Holy...
the blog The New Theological Movement has some... →
Some Music Progress
I have been making some progress on my lyric writing today. I finished writing a song I started a year ago based on St. Michael the Archangel, and I’m pleased. I also started writing a song that I have intended to write for probably the past decade, and it came out more clever, poetic, and humorous, then I intended it to be, a response to Karl Marx’s assertion on the Opium of the...
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Catholic, Orthodox report promising progress on... →
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“Lord, you are the virtue dwelling in my mind and the hiding place of my...”
– St. Augustine
LA Times survey; agnostics and atheists more... →
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Prayer and Spiritual Direction
A young man who wants to learn how to pray and encounter God seeks out a hermit in a distant cave in a distant desert.
After travelling for many days, he finally locates the hermit and asks “Can you teach me how to pray?” So the hermit takes him to a single shallow well deep in the cave. The two hold the torch descending into the cave, over the water and they can see their...
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LMNO "Next In Line →
Next in Line
LMNO on raps, Dert on beats, and LD on cuts, nice combination.
LMNO dedicated himself to 10 albums for 2010, and he seems to be pretty consistent on it. Next in Line was out earlier in the year in digital formats. February LMNO began with Push That Work, and subsequently each month has seen a release with Fonk Garden, Next In Line, Selective Hearing 2, Determined to Fly, Banger...
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The San Diego heat fried my mp3 player
I keep my mp3 player in the car where it gets a lot of use, and it got fried by the heat. Its been about 85-90 outside the past two days, and the car interior adds about ten degrees to that. As a result my mp3 player has been turning into carne asada or something. It was hot to touch, and i didn’t have oven mitts. Sometimes what when it is hot (though never this hot), it happens that it...
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Catholic Herald Article - AYE 2010: At Clare... →
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“Imagine that God wants to fill you up with honey. But if you are already full of...”
– St. Augustine
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A newly beatified teenage saint... Chiara Luce... →
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“Enter into yourself. Leave behind all noise and confusion. Look within yourself...”
– St. Augustine
Crying Fowl by Rabbi Simcha Weinstein in reference... →
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“the one quality of God above all others displayed in humankind… that is...”
– St. Thomas of Villanova
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“When we pray we have no need of spoken word. Sometimes the tongue is silent and...”
– St. Augustine
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The Saint who only slept three hours a night... →
Telegraph UK article about an Augustinian Saint, Alonzo Orozco
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“The superabundance of some means the poverty of others.”
– St. Thomas of Villanova
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Sex Isn't Selling: The decline of the Porn... →
In other words, pornography has succeeded so well that it has forced itself into decline. It has made sex so pervasive that it has become boring, so omnipresent that it no longer entices. It has no one but itself to blame. It is such a trip to think about… the web has made so much of entertainment free. your average porn consumer, not hung up on guilt, conscience, or stealing, is not going...
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“I shall recall the straying, I shall seek the lost, Whether they wish it or not,...”
– - St. Augustine
Hardly do we think of the Shepherd image as someone who recklessly seeks after every precious sheep in their care. It is almost as if Jesus as shepherd has been forgotten, and people only imagine Jesus as Judge. Jesus, as shepherd will always seek after us when we stray and sin, I...
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Hip Hop Fashion is overrated
This kind of fashion is not hip hop or, rather hip hop is not about the fashion. It may be about making a fashion statement, but what is commonly considered hip hop is overrated.
For instance: The sideways hat with the sticker to look like it was just bought, the big black glasses, the sports jersey, the sagging bagging pants with a logo on the back pocket at about knee level, the big clean...
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“If only our minds could be held steady, they would be still for a while, and for...”
– St. Augustine
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Mr J Medeiros "Friends Enemies Apples Apples →
Mr J Medeiros came to my attention with his hip hop crew the Procussions. I found some fresh, quality, positive hip hop in their music, and find that Mr J carries it for the group now that they have disbanded. Stro, also a member of Procussions handles the beats, another awesome bonus to this one.
Mr J manages to find a good balance of social consciousness, and spirituality, without...
Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman →
some regular updates on his cause for Canonization. Also some good information on John Henry Cardinal Newman himself.
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“O love, in which is the fullness of the law! In you is all that we seek; for if...”
– St. Thomas of Villanova
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Pope's address in Westminster Abbey →
Pope Benedict was the first Pope since the Reformation to go to London, and go to some of the pivotal Anglican and political sites, making this historic. Not only that, he was asked to speak. In your face anti-Catholicism lol! Shows how much progress we have made in our world.
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Braille "Weapon Aid" →
I didn’t see this one coming. If you can think of an artist who is so creative and does so many projects you can no longer keep track of them, it’s Braille.
Braille has had an interesting life, and hes cranked out way more albums and songs then I can count, and I think he’s about my age. Add to that all the shows he manages to do with a wife and daughter. He posts a lot of...
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“Let everyone’s sighs be uttered in longing for Christ. He should be the...”
– St. Augustine, Sermon on John
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What do you miss about Chicago?
It might be funny to say…
I lived in Hyde Park Chicago for three years, and people assumed I never could accept midwest winters (even after a total of four midwest winters).
Now in California people say “I bet you don’t miss the cold…”
To which I typically have replied, its actually hotter in Chicago then here (Los Angeles or San Diego).
I don’t miss the...
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“It is difficult in a crowd to see Christ. Our soul needs solitude. In...”
– St. Augustine
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“Enter into your heart and if you have faith you will find Christ there. There...”
– St. Augustine
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Hand of Friendship →
Whispers in the Loggia post of the Pope’s address to the Queen. Historic!
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Faces of Immigrants →
A website dedicated to the people who sometimes become faceless and nameless points of tension and controversy… that are indeed human beings seeking good for themselves and their families.
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CookBook&UnoMas "C&U Music Factory" →
CookBook & Uno Mas, from LA Symphony another of my favorite Hip Hop Crews. These guys keep cranking out music, and doing shows. By the look of things from their Twitter page, they don’t quit. Some of their previous releases are available for download, and are worth checking out. And their previous album is a FREE download. I had been expecting this album for some time, so I was...
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Pinoy Power
Props to my Pinoy brothers.My whole entire life has been enriched by the presence of various Filipinos, and now my religious life is no different.The Augustinians, my family, have had a rich tradition and history in the Philippines for centuries.Santo Nino de Cebu, yeah thats us.It had been announced, that a member of the Cebu province would be coming to California, and for this I am not...
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“We are prepared to endure all things here, however harsh, for eternal life. But...”
– St. Thomas of Villanova
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DeepSpace5 "The Future Ain't What it Used to Be" →
My favorite Hip Hop crew is DeepSpace5; Manchild, Sintax, Sev Statik, Listener, Dust, Beat Rabbi, Fred B, Playdough, Sivion and DJ Manwell.
They’ve been making music for years, and I could easily recommend any of their previous albums: DeepSpace5 Bandcamp.
DS5 is aggressive and old school, and also somewhat goofy. Their demeaner comes with years of experience and street credibility....
Family Friendly Musician?
“So I hear your a singer/musician, maybe you can sing in our choir?” I get questions similar to this, somewhere word spread that I make Hip Hop. Hip Hop is an audio and visual art-form. The audible component is musical sort of, but completely distinct from what most people normally define as music. Unfortunately this is too complicated to explain to someone who does not understand...
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No More Koran Burning →
Alleluia! Can I get an Amen to that!
So apparently, in order to give justice to all devout Muslims around the world, a Christian pastor mistakenly believes he has to commit the greatest sacrilege against them; burning their Koran. He has since rescinded.
How would burning the Koran on September 11, a day of great significance in our own history, and of serious sensitivity, how could it result...
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International Augustinian Youth Encounter
I went to London… When I filled out my customs form to return to the US, I checked the box that said the purpose of my visit was primarily “business.” And it was. I am sure the majority of people uninvolved in the AYE saw that I was in London and Ireland thought that I just decided I wanted to travel there. Well, indeed Ireland was in the top three places that I wanted to...
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Ireland
When people think of Ireland, Newgrange doesn’t come to mind.
Ireland, afterall is the land of Guinness, or Jameson’s Whiskey. It is rather ironic that the only thing that people can be proud of for the Irish is the liquor. Or in the case of Southside Chicago, where I lived for three years, fistfights and violence. In order to remember a man of God, who wasn’t even Irish,...
welcome to my tumblr page
hello to whomever you are, who may chance upon my tumblr page.
I decided to start a tumblr page a couple weeks ago, and I actually did it. I wanted to cover something about the hip hop that I do, or the Augustinian life that I live, or the ministry I serve, or anything else.
