{"id":6467,"date":"2005-06-20T23:26:19","date_gmt":"2005-06-20T23:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2005\/06\/finding-my-religion-2.html"},"modified":"2005-06-20T23:26:19","modified_gmt":"2005-06-20T23:26:19","slug":"finding-my-religion-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2005\/06\/finding-my-religion-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Finding My Religion"},"content":{"rendered":"

A piece from the SF paper about a musician’s journey:<\/a><\/p>\n

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Classical pianist Jacqueline Chew rebelled against her Christian upbringing and became an atheist while attending the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in the 1970s. But her love of music eventually led her back to a spiritual life. <\/p>\n

Chew was so taken with the work of Olivier Messiaen, a pioneering French composer known for his sacred Catholic music, that after hearing his composition "Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant-Jesus" ("Twenty Contemplations of the Infant Jesus"), she began questioning her belief that God does not exist. The more she learned about the music, the more religious she became. <\/p>\n

Next month, Chew, who released a CD of "Vingt Regards" last year, will take her interest in Catholicism to a new level. She will be received as an oblate, a layperson living outside a monastery who promises to follow the rules of St. Benedict in her private life, at the New Camaldoli Hermitage, a community of monks in Big Sur. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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