Habits of a Music Geek

Hello everyone,

So as you all know, I’m Catholic and I regularly go to mass. Sometimes, I go to the Saturday vigil mass, because something is going on, on the Sunday. This Saturday vigil mass has a choir, something the Sunday evening mass doesn’t, and…well…I’m not too fond of the singers in our church choir. I won’t say any more, but as someone who is an avid music player, I really, really…REALLY want to work on the choir…although I rarely have to sing in mass.

Now, a new feature has been added to our church; that is a new mezzanine has been placed at the back, where the choir loft is. In today’s (Saturday 18^th April) mass I was struck by inspiration. Although I can’t do much about the choir, I could do a few things about the music I listen to. I thought, why not create my own arrangements of the hymns!

So now, I’m undertaking a project, which hopefully gets recognised by my church. It’s not anything special or big, but it’s something. I will try to make these arrangements as simple as possible, but at the same time beautiful. Of course, I’m not going to keep it on my laptop with nowhere to go. Like my story, I’m going to upload them here, on my blog! That way you can listen to it, and give me feedback on what needs improvement…although I highly doubt I will get any.

Nevertheless, at least it’s something, and I will start by uploading the hymn Christ Be Our Light. So the reason for this is because it is the season of Easter, in the Catholic Church, and as such, our main representation of Christ is the Paschal Candle. It portrays Christ’s resurrection as the light of the world. Thus Christ is our light.

So without further ado, I give you Christ Be Our Light.

Christ Be Our Light - Soundcloud

What do you think? Let me know in the comments below, and I’ll speak to you soon. As always, do with this post what you will, and God Bless. ^^

A River Flowing

There is a reason to everything. It is because things happen, and things don't happen that others do. For example, a phone won't ring unless someone decides to call and acts it out. Everything has a cause. This post would not happen if I didn't want to post. It's a funny thing when you think about it. If we didn't do anything, nothing would be done. Something has to happen for it to be done.

This year is my last year in secondary school. It's strange just thinking about it. I didn't think that it would ever happen, and yet it is. What I must do now, is to think of the future: what is to come, yet I must live in the present. How can I do that? It is said, "Things are easier said than done." How much of this is true? What do I want? I want to know what will happen, I want to know everything that could help me. I usually go in life, without thinking, and end up either overjoyed, or totally embarrassed. Most of the time it's the latter. I can't handle that, that's why everything must be known, understood. That's why, this year is both a joy to me, and a curse. I want to leave the life I have known, but I don't want to embarrass myself at the same time.

Most of the time I would stay in a corner, my comfort, my home. But it isn't enough for me to do that. If I want to do something, I have to get out. But most of the time I'm scared to. Why? The embarrassment, the humiliation! I can't handle it, and yet I must.

Life truly is like a river flowing. We are the rocks that follow it. We must. We have no choice. We bump each other, we climb each other. We do everything we can to reach that ocean at the end. When we do what then? We look back? We forget? We're relieved that we have finally reached our rest? No one can say. But if I do know one thing, it is this:

We cannot spend our lives comforting our own wounds, because others have bumped us, because others have climbed over us to get to that ocean, we have to move on like they do. And it is up to us to keep our rock strong. If we don't we would end up a grain, in that ocean, not knowing how we ever turned into it. We must keep our boulder-like foundation, we must keep strong. We must be that rock, not just to ourselves, but to others as well. We must push them forward, we must guide them along that river, to join us at the end, in the ocean. We must fall, we must climb. That is all we must do, until we reach that ocean. I hope when we do though, we can look back, we can see the journey we've taken not just on our own, but the journey we've taken with others. We can look back at the marks we've made in the bank. We can look back at the marks we've made on each other. We can finally be at rest, knowing our mark was made in that river, our world.

Uplift the Spirit

Well...Since my rant from yesterday had pretty much drained me, I thought perhaps to enlighten the spirit today with a prayer card I made. Of course I used already published pictures and the most famous prayer in the Catholic Church, so I have to say, that these images are not mine, and that I don't own them in anyway, I just wanted to make a pretty prayer card. Also the prayer is in Spanish, so if you don't know what prayer it is, it's the Our Father. So do with it what you will, and many blessings for the day. ^^