LENT 2007

Dear Friends in Christ,

We are in The Awesome Season of Lent.

Today, was the First Sunday of Lent.

I felt inspired as a "Catholic Blogger" to post these Links for your Spiritual Enrichment in this Holy Season.

A. From: http://www.jesus-passion.com

OBJECTIVES FOR LENT:

1) To confess and turn away from all sin in our lives through Penance/Confession and Prayer.

2) To increase our love for God by attending Mass and receiving the Body of Christ.

3) To increase our love for our neighbor by forgiving our neighbor their faults and by doing good works to help our neighbor and the community. This Lent ask God to give you the Grace to forgive those who have offended you the most.

4) To mortify the desires of the flesh through fasting and abstinence.

[ Lent is the period of 40 days including weekdays and Saturdays from Ash Wednesday, February 21st through Easter Saturday, April 7th.]

B) Prayers and Meditations for Lent:

http://www.jesus-passion.com/magnificent_prayers_of_saint_bridget.htm

http://www.jesus-passion.com/stations_of_the_cross.htm

http://www.jesus-passion.com/SEVEN_SORROWS_OF_MARY.htm

http://www.jesus-passion.com/DOLOROUS_PASSION_OF_OUR_LORD_JESUS_CHRIST.htm

C) "An Awesome Directory on Lent"

http://www.catholictradition.org/Passion/lent.htm

Note: This Blog will be continuously updated during the Holy Season of Lent Till Easter Sunday.

Awesome and Excellent Classical Music Blogs (Part 2)

Dear Friends,

Here are some more Classical Music Blogs which are truly out of this world.

My Apologies for my absence for quite some time.

Here they are.

http://operascherzo.blogspot.com/

http://musicoclasico.blogspot.com/

http://carlosb1975.blogspot.com/

http://estanochebarralibre.blogspot.com/

Note: I particularly recommend checking out the Posts of the Blogger at "Opera Scherzo" on a daily or on a weekly basis.

He is upbeat, positive, and always on the money with regard to his posts.

His Blog I must say is also "fabulous" along with the other Blogs that i have already mentioned in an earlier post as well as in this post.

If I do come across any more excellent Classical Music Blogs, I will post them in Part 3 of this ongoing series.

Although, some of these Blogs are in Spanish -- i personally love them and have had no problems whatsoever in understanding their posts.

Awesome and Excellent Classical Music MP3 Blogs (PART 1)

Check out these interesting and excellent "Classical Music MP3 blogs" whenever you can.

1) http://xmusicaeternax.blogspot.com/

2) http://bruckovskyopuscero.blogspot.com/

3) http://leroisamuse.blogspot.com/

Enjoy and have a great day.

Feast of Classical Music Podcasts from Germany

Check out these Classical Music Podcasts from Deutsche - Welle Television in Germany as well as from SR-Online (German Radio)

1. Beethoven Fest Podcast from Deutsche Welle Television

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2128770,00.html

2. Classical Masterpieces conducted by Kent Nagano

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/0,2142,9698,00.html

3. 4 of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos as a Free Download

http://www.sr-online.de/sr2/80/585925.html

Check out these Awesome and Excellent "Classical Music Podcast Series" from the United States

I thought I would draw your attention to these awesome "Classical Music Podcast Series" which are available free to download from.

They are respectively:

1. WGBH Classical Music Podcasts from WGBH Radio in Boston which is updated every week.

2. Classical Music Podcast Series from the Isabella Gardner Museum in Boston also free to download to your IPOD or PC as the case may be.

3. Classical Music on the Net from "The Carnegie Mellon University Orchestra".

Here are the Links, if you wish to check them out.

I am so happy that these "Classical Music Podcast Series" have been made available.

http://www.podcastingnews.com/details/streams.wgbh.org/online/clas/clas_performance.xml/view.htm

http://www.gardnermuseum.org/music/podcast/theconcert.asp


http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~auo/recordings.html

P.S. -- This will be a feature of this Blog, to post Links to Awesome and Unique "Classical Music Podcast" Series from the United States as well as from Western Europe.

I will also be featuring on this Blog "Free Recordings" of certain Composers who are being celebrated in Europe on ocassion of their birth or death anniversary as was the case in 2006 with the 250th birth Anniversary of Mozart and the 150th Death Anniversary of Robert Schumann another awesome Composer from the 19th Century.

Belated Greetings for the New Year and Check out this Awesome Sacred Music Internet Broadcast

Belated Greetings for the New Year 2007, to all my Blogger Catholic Friends and Supporters whereever they may be.

This was recently brought to my attention that there is a "Unique and Awesome Catholic Internet Station" that is streaming "Sacred Classical Music" of various composers 24-7.

I think this is really great that the works of various composers of "Orchestral Masses and Motets" like Beethoven, Mozart, Palestrina, Josquin Des Prez, and Tomas Luis De Victoria to mention a few are being streamed whether partially or completely for the listening pleasure of souls all over the world.

Here are the Links if anyone is interested.

You can access it either through www.choraltreasure.org

or via Live365 at www.live365.com/stations/vocideltesoro

Ave Verum Corpus -- An Awesome Composition by Mozart

Today, I will be focusing on a Motet which was composed by Mozart specially for "Corpus Christi Sunday".

It is awesome, beautiful, inspiring, and soul stirring.

Although, it is short -- It has an awesome perspective on "The Real Presence of Jesus Christ in the Holy Eucharist".

Here are some Links which give a brief description on this beautiful Motet.

1) A Brief Description on this Motet:

http://members.macconnect.com/users/j/jimbob/classical/Mozart_K618.html#composition

2) Ave Verum Corpus - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)

http://www.aylesburychoral.org.uk/concerts/works/mozart_aveverum.htm

3) Listen to "Ave Verum Corpus" at the following Links:

a) http://www.limburger-domsingknaben.de/mpeg-files/music/limburger-domsingknaben-Mozart4109.mp3

b) http://www.conradaskland.com/blog/2006/11/ave-verum-corpus-wa-mozart/


Enjoy and Have a Blessed Week - End.