This Teresian singer-songwriter will offer on March 18 the second of the three prayerful concerts promoted by the Diocesan Commission for the Jubilee Year of Saint Teresa of Jesus. “Get used to you”, is the title of the recital that we can enjoy in the church of the Discalced Carmelites in Salamanca
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The Teresian singer-songwriter, Fabiola Torrero, will offer on March 18 the second of the three prayerful concerts organized by the Diocesan Commission for the Jubilee Year of Saint Teresa of Jesus. Once again, the church of Santa María Magdalena, run by the Discalced Carmelite Fathers, will host the recital that will begin at half past six in the afternoon, and in which Fabiola will perform the compositions from her Teresian songs album: “Getting used to you.”
Fabiola is an infant and primary school teacher, graduated in music, catechist,… She has been composing music for young people, children and adults for years, in which she addresses issues of life, faith, the person in relationship. She has released several albums and has participated in other productions with other authors and singers. Since 2010 she has been consecrated to the apostolate of evangelization with music and she considers that this “continues to be the universal vehicle of language among the people.”
Why did you become human?was the title of the first prayerful concert that she offered on January 28 in the jubilee temple of the Discalced Carmelites in Salamanca, with which the singer-songwriter tried to “capture that sense that God has of becoming humanity.”
Prayerful experience with Teresa of Jesus
With these concerts he intends to “experience this God that Teresa de Jesús has lived in her life and that she has transmitted to us.” The concert on March 18 will also be a prayerful experience “from the feel that treatment of friendship with human Jesus Christ“. Hence its title (get used to you)“Being next to Jesus fits you, or fits me,” says Fabiola Torrero.
“Castilla sings to Teresa”, It will be the last concert-prayer that he will offer within this cycle, on October 7, close to the feast of Santa Teresa de Jesús, and which aims to be “a tribute from this land, from this place in Castilla y León, where he is from Teresa de Jesús, where she founded so many convents”. A land that “sings to Teresa, that thanks her for her passing through her, for her life, for this experience of faith and for having passed it on to us”, as this Zamora-born singer-songwriter emphasizes.
Zoom in on Jesus figure
Through these songs, Fabiola seeks to “bring the figure of Jesus closer” through the “values that Saint Teresa wants to transmit to us” and that “are current today.” For Torrero “anyone can follow them and experience them.”
The founder of the Order of Carmel highlights “her great experience in prayer”, her “friendship with God” whom she “feels close to because she feels human”.
Evangelize through music
Fabiola Torrero acknowledges that already in her adolescence, singing was “making an experience of prayer and faith.” A vocation that she began to discover as a “gift of God”. And as she points out, “the power to compose, was little by little taking shape on a religious level until it could make a song.”
This singer-songwriter considers that music plays a very important role in the proclamation of the gospel, “art, music,… must continue to be the engine of an apostolate that affects the heart, inside. We cannot stop living that dimension that art is capable of developing and exalting, because it touches human sensibility”. For this reason, he states that “music must continue to be a vehicle to evangelize, because evangelization has to do with the heart.”
