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Lenten Retreat with Therese Schroeder-Sheker on Zoom

We are thankful for your interest, while registration for this particular series is full. Please fill out this form to be contacted about a future project with Therese Schroeder-Sheker. Your information will be shared only with her and her non-profit, Chalice of Repose. (If you also want to receive notices of events from the Cathedral, you may check the box indicated.)

Therese Schroeder-Sheker will serve as an artist and theologian in residence at the Cathedral during the winter and spring of 2023.

In a six-week Lenten series, an intimate circle will explore Beauty not only as a Transcendental but, crucially, as a Transfiguring Ministry.  Leading from the Baptist’s vox clamantis call in the wilderness and moving to the Paschal mystery of Holy Week, the six evening sessions will combine an opening contemplative delivery prepared by the instructor followed by dialogue sustained within the group of registrants.  By turning a loving and meditative gaze toward the ministries embodied in the lives of Christ and Mary together and separately, and that of the two Johns, we seek to nurture ways in which we can newly live, ensoul and integrate the metanoic processes and themes they disclosed into our own daily lives.  The hope?  The contemplative dimension: To live and serve the continuum of living and dying in the light of the Risen Christ more authentically, intimately, beautifully.   Through the Gospels, pastoral care and liturgical arts, we will be considering Beauty within Silence, Beauty of Soul, Beauty in Speech, Beauty in Deed, Beauty in Sound, Beauty of Intention, and more. 

Register early, as this group is limited to ten participants. The six separate hour-and-a-half sessions are delivered via Zoom, and begin at 7pm EST on Tuesday’s, beginning from 2/28; 3/7; 3/14; 3/21; 3/28 and 4/4.  Cost: $150.

Please write a paragraph or two including a biographical background and explanation of what interests lead you to this course and your hopes for joining, and send it in an email to Brynna at arts@cathedralofallsaints.org. If you need a partial scholarship, please contact Brynna Carpenter-Nardone.

While working in a nursing home, Schroeder-Sheker developed Music-Thanatology—a formal program teaching the use of prescriptive music to aid the dying. Music historian Ted Gioa calls Schroeder-Sheker a “visionary of sound” and writes “[she] had a brilliantly successful career as a recording artist and concert hall performer. She could have spent her entire life as a music star, but instead put her primary focus on serving those in the most dire and hopeless situations.” To learn more about Therese Schroeder-Sheker, her work and the organization she founded, visit https://chaliceofrepose.org/ or visit YouTube: https://youtu.be/qOAYNaJe4l0

 Biography

For forty-plus years, harpist, singer, composer, educator and clinician Therese Schroeder-Sheker has maintained her triple vocation by working simultaneously in classical music, higher education and end-of-life care.  She founded the palliative medical modality of music-thanatology and its flagship organization The Chalice of Repose Project.  Therese made her Carnegie Hall debut in 1980; has concertized worldwide for decades; records for American and European labels such as Sony, Celestial Harmonies and Curve Blue; has taught at American and European universities, colleges, seminaries and institutes; made her profession as a lay Benedictine in 2000; and publishes frequently on the mystical theology of the women mystics ancient and contemporary, the practice of music-in-medicine, and contemplative musicianship. 

Earlier Event: March 5
Choral Evensong