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Join me for the Holy Spirit Novena!

Please join us each evening for the virtual Holy Spirit Novena at St. John of the Cross, beginning on Friday, May 22nd, at 6:30 pm CST and ending with the vigil for Pentecost Sunday, May 30th. I’ll be providing the music on Saturday evening, May 23rd, starting at 6:30 pm. Veni Sancte Spiritus! Set your alarm and tune in LIVE at 6:30 pm on YouTube at :
 
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh56L78KcvVEXY60_Tun4eA.

A surprise blessing on Divine Mercy Sunday


April 19, 2020, Divine Mercy Sunday

I commend the commitment of Kitty Cleveland, who is dedicating her considerable talents to the new evangelization, especially in its care for the poor. May God bless all her efforts.

Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke

 

A COVID-19 Easter Miracle!

Friends, I just received this incredible feedback on my Sounds of Peace MP3 players from someone suffering in the hospital from COVID-19. What a message of miraculous hope!

My Miracle Story!

by Parish from La.

“I have to share this with you, and I cannot explain it; however, I will try.  I was down in the hospital [with COVID-19] and thought my world was crashing around me. I was so sad crying for [my family members who are also sick, two of whom were in the hospital]. I was a basket case.  I was just so sad for everyone in the hospital. I mean, if you had seen me, you would have thought I was checking out, and everyone I loved was coming with me. And then came a little knock on my door and my nurse comes in and says, “Good Evening Parish. How are you doing?”

Well, you know me.  I am a big guy. I pop up and say what I always say to everyone when asked that question: It’s another day in paradise. I am here to fight another day. Still, inside I am struggling with the fact that this could be it. But then Kelli, my nurse says, “Parish the Catholic Church dropped these MP3 players loaded with music on them for our patients to listen to. Would you like one?”  I said, sure, I would love one. I read the information that was in a little blue pouch. I read the bottom of the card, Please pray for the intentions of Maria Mandras. I learned that it was Sounds of Peace, and the artist was Kitty Cleveland…Little did I know my life would change right then and there.

As soon as I turned on the music a calm came across my body. All my doubts, fears, and sickness left my body. I felt inspired and loved by God. The doctor came in and said, “You look too healthy to be here. Would you like to go home?” I started to cry again.

I thank everyone for all the prayers. I appreciate the healthcare providers at Lakeview Regional Medical Center that took care of me. I so love my wife Julie, who never gave up praying and fighting for me to be on the right medications. I thank all the friends who never quit praying for me.  I thank Sounds of Peace and Kitty Cleveland for the fantastic music that they sent to me at my lowest point. I thank my teammates and friends who prayed for me. I thank my friend Scot who drove 2.5 hours one way to give me medication that would fight the virus, and I thank God for not leaving me and sending all these things my way to protect me.  I still pray for everyone who is ill and has no one to pray for them.

COVID-19 is no joke. It takes over your lungs, and you cannot breathe…Life is so short, and you will not believe how many of your friends are praying for you. All thoughts and prayers are so appreciated!

Stay safe & be well! Happy Easter!!!! Without God, there is no hope. Through the resurrection, God gives us his Mercy and Grace to be a Light to the World today and every day! HE IS ALIVE!!!!!!!!!!!! HAPPY EASTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! COVID-19 is a wake-up call to the World!”

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What an incredible Easter miracle story, and it would never have happened without the generosity of my many friends and sponsors–both those who have sponsored my CDs over the last 20 years and those who have sponsored the Sounds of Peace digital music packages.  May God bless each one of you with treasure in Heaven!

For those who would like to know more, each player package includes a mini MP3 (digital music) player loaded with $100 of music and prayer–all 9 of my CDs. I just ask for help covering my costs at $25 each, which allows me to buy two more players to replace it.

If you would like to learn more about how you can help sponsor a Sounds of Peace digital music player package for the sick and dying, and also how you can get one for yourself or a loved one, please go to www.kittycleveland.com/soundsofpeace.  God bless you, friends! Kitty

Join Kitty for the Chaplet of Divine Mercy

I recorded this video on April 2, 2020, starting at 2:37 pm CT, the exact date and time of St. Pope John Paul II’s death 15 years earlier, with the specific intention to ask for his intercession during this critical time in human history. I end by singing “Now You Come to Me” (available on my CD, Be Not Afraid), which is the song I wrote the night JPII died based on his last words: “I have looked for you all my life, and now You come to me.”

Spotify Surprise

Well, this is amazing! While artists make almost no money from streaming ($0.006 per song), it’s so edifying to know that in 2019 we were able to reach this many people around the world with songs of hope, healing, and consolation. I had no idea!

So grateful to all of my family and friends who have supported this ministry over the last 20 years. Look what God is doing with our loaves and fishes!

Sounds of Peace now available!

Hooray! My Sounds of Peace digital music player package (with my daughter’s beautiful logo) is now available! All nine of my CDs are on it. With every one you purchase, we donate three to the poor. Head on over to our Etsy shop by clicking on the image! 

Sounds of Peace: Kitty to give away all of her music!

  • A Heavenly Visitation

September 19, 2019

Feast of Our Lady of La Salette

On August 28th of last year, I was in Cuenca, Ecuador, for the 30th anniversary of the first apparition of Our Lady, Guardian of the Faith, to a teenage girl named Patricia “Pachi” Talbot (the messages have been approved by her bishop, as has the building of a massive new shrine).  After the beautiful Mass with the bishop, for which Pachi had earnestly asked me to sing when visiting the U.S. months earlier, she came over and hugged me.  I whispered a question that had been burning in my heart,
  • “Why me?”

After all, she’s met so many lovely singers as she’s traveled the world setting up Prayer Cenacles (Our Lady’s request), and she had wonderful singers there in Cuenca.

  • Her response shocked and startled me.

“Because Our Lady loves you so much, and because you have a mission to save the world with your voice.”

“Is that from you or from her?” I asked.  “From her,” she replied.
I wasn’t sure what that meant or what that would look like, but tears filled my eyes as I contemplated the gravity of her words.
Pachi and me in Cuenca
Three weeks ago (exactly one year later), on the Feast of Our Lady, Guardian of the Faith, August 28, 2019, I was driving home from singing for my second funeral in three days, thinking that I needed to do more works of mercy for the sick and dying.  Perhaps I should start visiting nursing homes and hospitals to sing for people?  Then I heard a voice say to my soul, “Give your music away to the poor, the elderly, the sick and the dying. No one should suffer or die without consolation.“
Inspiration came quickly, like a download from Heaven, which I believe was the start of the fulfillment of Pachi’s prophetic words to me:

–Buy 1,000 digital music players to start;

–Download them with your music; and

–Give them away to Catholic parishes for the sick and homebound, to Hospice care, to the homeless…

–Stay small, but think BIG.

After getting the ball rolling with manufacturers overseas and polling my friends on Facebook, we decided to call the project “Sounds of Peace.” My daughter, Cecilia, designed this beautiful logo for me:
Last week another inspiration came: offer my Miracle of Divine Mercy CDs for free to Fr. Chris Alar, MIC, to be given away with his new book After Suicide: There’s Hope for Them and For You. When he excitedly asked how many I could donate, I was surprised to hear myself say “12,000!” I don’t actually have the money to buy that many, but I do have the credit.
Those CDs arrived at his office in Stockbridge, MA, today, which also happens to be my birthday (yay!).  It’s the least I could do in thanksgiving for the gift of my life and as a consolation to all those who suffer in the tragic wake of suicide.
And so now I ask you, my friends, will you help me fulfill this mission?
For every $25 donation, I will donate to a Catholic parish or other people in need:

—One rechargeable digital music player (see photo below), PLUS

–Headphones, a charging cable, and a blue velvet gift bag with the Sounds of peace logo, PLUS

–$100.00 worth of my music and prayer, PLUS

–A card listing all 109 tracks, plus a place to write your personalized prayer request, which we will put in the velvet bag with the other items so that the recipient can pray for you.

For a $250 donation, I will send ten (10) sets to the U.S. parish or charity of your designation (or as many as you want over 10 for $25 each, e.g. for a $1,000 donation, we would donate 40 units on your behalf).  Any money received for this project will go towards purchasing and distributing more units, which I’m hoping will be in the tens (or hundreds) of thousands.

Our digital music player
  • If you would like to purchase one for yourself or a loved one, you can do so on maybe Etsy shop. With every one you purchase at $100, we donate three to the needy and poor!
My plan is to launch the project on Sunday, December 15, 2019, at my 2:00 p.m. concert at St. Aloysius in Baton Rouge, LA (please come!).  I hope to have at least 1,000 units ready to go.
And if you would like to help me defray the cost of the 12,000 Divine Mercy CDs I gave to Fr. Chris to go with his book After Suicide: There’s Hope for Them and For You, please make a note to that effect.
How to help:
1)  Checks: payable to Christiaria, LLC if you don’t need a tax receipt; or payable to Carrick Ministries if you do need a tax receipt (I pay a 5-10% administrative fee) with a memo about your intention for the donation.
Please mail the check to:
Christiaria, LLC, PO Box 843, Madisonville, LA, 70447
2) PayPal: Send via “Friends and Family” to orders@kittycleveland.com with a memo about your intention for the donation.
3) Venmo: Send to @Kitty-Cleveland with a memo about your intention for the donation.
Most of all, please pray for the success of this project, that no one will suffer or die without the consolation of music and prayer to help in their time of need.
So many people have used my CDs to help ease their anxieties or to help their loved ones pass peacefully into the arms of God, and many of you share in the merits of those graces by having donated your time, talent, and treasure to help make those recordings a reality (70 different songs, plus the rosary CD, children’s rosary CD, and Divine Mercy CD!).  I thank God for you.
With love and joy,

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