Jaime Rickert
Jaime Rickert
This is a NEW site under development. Look for further developments including
stories, reflections, and other information including guitar, scripture,
and other interest based links. |
Jaime Rickert is an itinerant fool, a wandering minstrel, a singer, songwriter, storyteller, juggler, clown, magician, workshop leader, retreat director and not a bad cook. He claims that his spirituality has been formed equally by Benedictine monks and a concertina player he met in the back of a Greyhound bus.
Sound clip |
 |
Having spent his twenties in the seventies making all the wrong choices for all the right reasons, and his thirties in the eighties trying to recover from his twenties, he has decided to give up and accept life as a gift and not as a problem needing a solution. This is the message of his ministry: "we are loved ferociously by the God who created us."
Sound clip |
|
In nearly 400 week-long missions with the Parish Mission Team of the Archdiocese of New York, in his work with the Fountain Square Fools, Inner Actions, The Good News Company, and other groups involved in Ministry using the performing arts, and in numerous solo concerts around the country Jaime has tried to help people see themselves more clearly by a simple retelling of his own story. From the night life of the Caribbean to the solemnity of the monastery, he takes his stories and songs from a wide range of experience, and he takes his inspiration from Tommy No-Show as well as Meister Eckhart; from Johnny Reveille as well as Julian of Norwich. From the laughter and foolishness of his concert's opening to the depth and power of its conclusion his message remains clear and accessible to all; "we are loved."
"I brought my parents, my children, and my grandchildren, and we all had a wonderful time." |
Sound clip |
|
A concert goer in Ohio summed up the evening by saying, "I brought my parents, my children, and my grandchildren, and we all had a wonderful time." Jaime spent twelve years with the Parish Mission Team in New York. He served on the Board of Directors of "Phoenix" a national organization of performing artists involved in community and religious service, and is a member of the teaching staff of the National Association of Pastoral Musicians School of Guitar. He has produced seven albums with the Parish Mission Team and three solo albums of original songs entitled By Your Touch, and New Wine, and Stand Your Ground upon which a concert designed more for an adult audience is based. Two additional albums, Father's Table and Stand Your Ground Live Concert, contain both songs and stories. Jaime spent five years as resident musician at Marydale Retreat Center in Erlanger Kentucky. In September of 1995 he rejoined the Parish Mission Team as Artistic Director. Since the closing of the mission team in September of 2000 Jaime has been a Pastoral Associate at St Ann's, a multi-cultural parish in Ossining, NY.
Contact Jaime at JWRickert@aol.com.
