Pope Francis to Release Pop-Rock Album ‘Wake Up!’ 

The Vatican-approved LP, a collaboration with Believe Digital, features the Pontiff delivering sacred hymns and excerpts of his most moving speeches in multiple languages paired with uplifting musical accompaniment ranging from pop-rock to Gregorian chant. Wake Up! arrives November 27th, with the iTunes pre-order now available with an instant download of “Wake Up! Go! Go! Forward!”

On Wake Up!, Pope Francis speaks to the listener in Italian, English, Spanish and Portuguese over 11 tracks to address issues like peace, dignity, environmental concerns and helping those most in need. For the album, the Pope’s powerful messages were placed in the musical hands of Wake Up!‘s producer and artistic director Don Giulio Neroni.

Full Article: Pope Francis to Release Pop-Rock Album ‘Wake Up!’ | Rolling Stone

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Bag of Randomness for Friday, September 25, 2015

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  • When you consider how much John Kennedy’s Catholic faith was a concern in a presidential election about 55 years ago, that is quite an amazing picture as every person in that picture is Catholic.
  • I always heard that House Speaker John Boehner could be set toA tears easily, but I just brushed it off as one of those things people just try to exaggerate.  Then I watched the beginning of the Pope’s speech, and right after he said “land of the free and the home of the brave” in his opening remarks, the Speaker just broke down.
  • As old as Pope Francis is (78), I’m a bit amazed at how well he gets around with just one lung.
  • When the Pope is in town, this is what a locked up mailbox looks like.
  • For over twenty years, I would go to sleep with the television on set to a sleep timer, and I was very thankful that I married someone in which this habit doesn’t bother her one iota. But for the last eight months or so, I’ve been listening to podcasts while trying to fall asleep.  Recently I listened to Penn Jillette on Alec Baldwin’s “Here’s The Thing”.  In this episode, Gillette, a well-known atheist, talks about how well religious people have treated him, and how as a kid in his youth group he would ask his ministers many questions which lead him to become a non-believer.  His parents were devout, but his mother ended up as an atheist at 85.  That whole segment starts at the 5:43 mark and ends around 10:15. Baldwin does drop one GD, in case you are sensitive to that sort of thing.
  • A Bible lesson from a friend – Teaching: Is the Bible True? Is It Authoritative?
  • @jeffpearlman – On Yom Kippur, and why—despite no real faith in God—I keep attending services
  • Yesterday I installed a solar powered motion detector light on the side of the house, high above our master bathroom window.
  • The Angry Birds movie trailer was released this week and the movie will hit theaters in May 2016.  I think they are at least two years too late on maximizing the potential of that that fad.
  • Buzzfeed – Netflix Has Found The Binge-Watching Point Of No Return – Notables: ‘Breaking Bad’ – Episode 2, ‘House of Cards’ – Episode 3; ‘Mad Men’ – Episode 6
  • YouTube – Guy scares bear from out under his deck, the bear looks at him straight in the eyes and leaves a goodbye present.
  • Local youth sports news – When a little league coach turned to shut down a heckler at a girls’ basketball game, she knew he was an off-duty police officer, but she never imagined she’d end up facing a year of jail time.
  • I heard on the radio that tomorrow is National Public Lands Day, so that means free entrance to national and state parks.  So if you Texans ever wanted to climb any of the Guadalupe Mountains, hike Big Bend, or explore Fort Davis, it won’t cost you anything but time.
  • Matthew McConaughey’s brother gets year supply of beer for naming son Miller Lyte
  • Redskins Thank All 7 Fans for Sending Them Off to New York
  • An interactive graphic that shows you how many years you probably have left to live.
  • Dang, Woody Harrelson Looks Pretty Great As LBJ, Too – Two LBJ’s movies hitting theaters?  There’s a term for this, twin films.
  • The Verge – Steven Soderbergh might be making an interactive movie for HBO –
    ‘It will require a new Emmy category, and we will be the only eligible nominee’
  • The 9/11 Virtual Reality Experience That Nobody Has Been Waiting For
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Bag of Randomness for Thursday, September 23, 2015

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  • Things I learned or were reminded of while checking over DaughterGeeding’s homework:
    • The Atlantic Ocean is the saltiest of all the oceans
    • The Indian is the warmest
    • The Pacific is the largest
    • The Arctic is the smallest and of course, coldest
  • We got her first quarter report card yesterday, and I’m happy to report she’s got all A’s.  But then again, it’s kindergarten.  However, her father had to repeat that grade twice.
  • A Buzzfeed quiz for those that were part of a church youth group in the early to mid-Nineties – Were You More DC Talk Or Jars Of Clay?
  • I tire of Christians who judge other’s faith and then over-analyze this and that about a person’s life as if they are using some sort of flowchart to determine if someone is legit in their faith.  Perhaps I’m silly for thinking that all it takes is for one to accept Jesus Christ as their personal lord and savior, letting their “yes” be yes and their “no” be no.  It all comes down to a personal relationship between human and God, so no one should be able to speak for another because they aren’t in the middle of that relationship.  Those folks drove, and in a sense, continue to drive me away from organized religion.  They are more about fighting and attention seeking than they are for loving God and their neighbor – Mike Huckabee: Obama pretends to be a Christian
  • I attended a small Southern Baptist university and a professor (actually, university VP that taught Christian ethics) once told me that the Ten Commandments aren’t necessarily to be followed (bad wording on my part) anymore and are to be looked at a more historical context of how far Christianity has come. He reasoned that all one has to do is love God and love your neighbor, that Christ simplified things and all rules, laws, and the Ten Commandments are incorporated within those two things to love.  I think about that moment a lot, and come to agree with it.  I’ve have shared this with others who have made clear it’s incorrect, faulty reasoning, a poor interpretation of things, or bad theology.
  • Crucifixions are still a thing – U.N., rights groups call on Saudi Arabia to spare man from beheading, crucifixion
  • My Big XII Football Conspiracy Theory – There’s no real feud between the head coaches of TCU and Baylor, it’s all orchestrated to generate more attention to a conference that almost went under a few years ago.  I bet both were reluctant to do this, and both aren’t real fond of each other, but both are lifers at their schools, and are doing this for the good of the conference.
  • This Saturday, Baylor will have suspended a total of three assistant coaches this year.  One of the assistants is the son of Art Briles, another is the son-in-law of Art Briles.  [Biting my tongue, I shall not say something negative.]
  • An Animated and Visualized System Map of DART – This is actually pretty helpful and impressive and should be shared with others that will be using our local public transportation system.
  • War is hell – Toll of Syria’s war: Baby born with shrapnel on forehead
  • Nature provided an easy way to tell these puppies apart.
  • Texas police department driving seized Corvette Z06 named ‘Coptimus Prime’ with ties to cartel
  • I think something has been buried regarding 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed and his clock story, and it was probably because it occurred on Friday.  Mark Cuban was on ‘Real Time with Bill Maher’ and stated he talked with Ahmed on the phone.  When he asked him about science and technology stuff, he was very talkative, but when the conversation went elsewhere, Cuban said he could clearly tell Ahmed’s sister was whispering in his ear to guide him on answers.  Handcuffing the kids was definitely wrong, and I can’t blame him or his parents for milking what’s been offered to them, and I’m not giving into any conspiracy theories, but I just don’t like it when people can’t be genuine and sincere.
  • Volkswagen hires BP oil spill lawyers to defend emissions cases
  • Oscar Mayer launches dating app for bacon lovers
  • Batmobile entitled to copyright protection, judges rule
  • WifeGeeding is wanting me to purchase a security camera that has a night setting recording feature because I caught the “Peeping Tom” at 9:45 PM last night on the dark side of the house where our master bath window is located, which had the light on at the time with WifeGeeding in it.  I only caught him walking the path in our yard cutting between yards, and not trying to sneak a quick peak between the blinds like I did last time.
  • Whataburger didn’t make the cut – The Most Influential Burgers In America – Burger scholar George Motz gives the rundown on nine essential bun-and-patty combos that would change the burger landscape forever.
  • GIF – Otter skillfully juggling a rock
  • I caught part of Fox’s new show ‘Scream Queens’ on the DVR last night, which stars Emma Roberts and Jamie Lee Curtis.  It was pretty enjoyable, funny, campy, and makes fun of the whole genre.  To my surprise, the freshman dorm room looked realistically small.  There were a few times when I had to look some words up on UrbanDictionary.com to understand current slang, and it was pretty shocking how perverse they can be.  For instance, “blumpkin” was quite a shocker.
  • ‘Modern Family’ has a talented writing staff.  Man sitcoms have old recycled jokes and scenarios we’ve seen from the history of sitcoms, but I find a lot of originality in the show.
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Since several of you mentioned Dr Greene’s death scene

Man, I forgot how much I really like that show (especially how it was shot, the whole walk-and-talk long takes), and I’m surprised (well, not really) that I teared up watching it.  Once again, “Over The Rainbow” is one hell of a song.

I cued it up to where the song is about to begin, so just hit play, but you can always rewind to catch his sendoff in full.

https://youtu.be/l6wxXs0aQhE?t=7m13s

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