Jean offers you Hymns from the Rig Veda and other Sanskrit studies; sacred geometry represented by the Millennium Sphere, created for the time capsule competition sponsored by The New York Times Magazine at the millennium; and a number of multi-media books and articles on engineering education and design.
Katharine's contribution comes through her two books on Gregorian chant and Benedictine spirituality: Chant and The Benedictine Gift to Music. Information is also given about her healing practice using modalities such as Thought Field Therapy, Emotional Freedom Technique, and the Healing Codes.
We wish to acknowledge the contributions to our life and work and to this website of our Benedictine friends Sr. Donald Corcoran, OSB (Cam.), Sr. Jeanne Marie Pearse, OSB (Cam.), Abbot Patrick Barry, OSB and Father Ralph Wright, OSB and to other friends whose presence and talent also grace our lives-Astrid Fitzgerald, Toinette Lippe, and Solveig Eskedahl.
Good News!
Jean’s original translation of Hymns from the Rig Veda is now available in quadrilingual translation and may be downloaded by clicking here.
Cost for entire text and paintings is $25.
The presentation of the twelve hymns in this book makes available a portion of one of the major scriptures of humanity in contemporary idioms (English and French, tr. Jean Le Mée; German, tr. Volker Stutzer; and Spanish, tr. Gerardo del Cerro) that reflect the quality, substance, and form of the original.
A stunning collection of twenty-six full-color reproductions of paintings by the renowned Indian painter Prem Raval inspired by this translation forms an integral part of the presentation and adds to it a new dimension.
Events
The 2008 Northeastern Benedictine Experience will be held at Bethany Spirituality Center in Highland Mills, NY from October 30 - Nov. 2. Jean and Katharine will again be speaking on the cultural contributions of Benedictines. Jean will illustrate from Chartres Cathedral and Katharine will refer to the works of Hildegard of Bingen. For further information, please click here.
Jean and Katharine spoke on contributions of the Benedictines to religious and cultural life at a retreat offered by the Friends of St. Benedict at the Trinity Conference Center, West Cornwall, CT., November 1-4, 2007. Jean’s topic was “The Birth of the Gothic” and Katharine’s was “Gregorian Chant.”
Jean taught a class at the Center for Christian Studies of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, 7 West 55th St., NYC on Tuesday evenings during the month of May 2007. The subject was: "Numbers and Proportions in Sacred Geometry, Architecture and Music: Some Traditional Conceptions and Applications in Medieval Churches (Chartres in the West and Russian churches of the Golden Ring in the East.)"
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On March 10 and 11, 2007 Katharine and Jean gave the Abbot Gerald R. Desmond Lectures at St. Martin’s Abbey in Lacey, WA. Katharine spoke on “The Origins, Practice, and Interiority of Gregorian Chant” and Jean on “Medieval Christian Architecture: The Cathedral of Chartres.”