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Artist-theologian-clinician Therese Schroeder-Sheker, the visionary founder of music-thanatology and the Chalice Repose Project, is offering a four-week retreat during Advent. The dates and times are: 11/28, 12/5, 12/12, & 12/19 from 4PM to 5:30PM Pacific Time (7PM to 8:30PM Eastern Time). The retreat is sold out but you may leave your interest in future workshops with Therese Schroeder-Sheker by filling out the form below.
"In the context of the Cathedral and the liturgical calendar, we speak of the Nativity, the birth of the Divine Child in the manger, the Incarnation, and yet in the highest and deepest sense of a calling, the Nativity is not confined to Christmas Eve, nor to Bethlehem. Whether or not we listen or hear, aren’t all of us called to continue bringing something sacred to birth in ourselves, in our communities? In speech, in ideals, choices and endeavors? This includes our friendships, communities, the world! Through image and word, I would love to cultivate meditative dialogue on Incarnation and on The Incarnation by walking with Mary, the mystical rose, with the Child, with the midwife, with the three Wise Men, with the shepherds in the fields and with the Holy Spirit. Mystical texts describe the whole participation of the natural world too. It is said that the forest and trees, springs and even the stars quivered at The Incarnation, and if we trace those threads with love and awe, with wonder and humility, the Divine might be reborn in us too.”
-- Therese Schroeder-Sheker
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.