Vanessa Marie Chastain Rivas is a Catholic writer, singer (Mezzo-Soprano), pianist, composer, and visual artist in Philadelphia. She is planning to teach piano and voice in Autumn 2024, and she sings at Our Lady of Lourdes in Philadelphia. She did a B.A. at New College of Florida, Area of Concentration: Applied Mathematics/Environmental Science, but her interest in music has motivated her to work in music professionally, drawing on the reality that mathematics is related to music. She is trying to be a Carmelite religious and is asking for prayers for her vocation and her intentions. Please visit the LinkedIn page https://www.linkedin.com/in/vanessa-chastain-rivas-7182b566/ for information on her work. She also writes on a blog Our Lady of Sorrows Prayer for Broken Families: olsprayerforbroken.wordpress.com. To contact her, please email her at asocialcat@gmail.com. Thank you for everything!