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Mission: We offer compassionate, interfaith and spiritual care in a contemplative community so those who are dying leave this world with dignity and grace. We teach the art of contemplative living and dying.
Vision: We live in a world where death is not feared, and we live fully until we die.
Mission: We offer compassionate, interfaith and spiritual care in a contemplative community so those who are dying leave this world with dignity and grace. We teach the art of contemplative living and dying.
Vision: We live in a world where death is not feared, and we live fully until we die.
ABODE is Home
Most of us would prefer to die at home. It’s not easy to do. Perhaps you can no longer live by yourself. Or your home isn’t conducive to a quiet, peaceful death. Or perhaps your loved ones now need help caring for you around-the-clock.
We are the only 501(c)(3) nonprofit end-of-life care home in San Antonio offering contemplative care for those in the last three months, weeks or days of life. We provide our service at no charge to our Guests, hospice or insurance. We welcome and depend on the generosity of you – our donors – to support our sacred work.
We are here to serve you during your most tender of days.
“You matter because you are you. You matter until the last moment of your life and we will do all that we can do, not only to help you die peacefully, but to live until you die.”
– Dame Cicely Saunders
How You Can Help
Your financial support is key to helping us cover our operating costs – and we have plenty of great volunteer projects. On top of that? Please help us spread the good word. Read and share our award-winning newsletter and follow and share our social media posts on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube.
How You Can Help
Your financial support is key to helping us cover our operating costs – and we have plenty of great volunteer projects. On top of that? Please help us spread the good word. Read and share our award-winning newsletter and follow and share our social media posts on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube.
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Latest News
ABODE Book Club and Study Group
We’ll read and discuss The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully by Frank Ostaseski. The group meets 6:30-7:30 p.m. each Tuesday, starting Jan. 18, via Zoom.
Thursday Meditation
Join us for our Thursday Morning Meditation, 11 am-Noon, with Ed Alderette at ABODE and also via Zoom. We reflect on a brief reading and then go into meditative silence.
Family-style lunch follows at Noon.
RSVP by sending an email to Mary Thorsby.
Holiday Luminarias at ABODE
The holiday season is one of the most beautiful times of the year at ABODE. Please join us at our home, 5-7 p.m., 8619 Post Oak Lane, Sunday, Dec. 19, for this special year-end celebration featuring the Conroy Christmas Carolers along with Mexican hot chocolate, cider, wines from Judy Tierney of Scout & Cellar and plenty of holiday treats.
We invite you to honor your loved ones with luminarias, too. They’re $25 apiece and will feature your loved ones’ names. Details here.
Holiday Luminarias is 5-7 pm, Sunday, Dec. 19.
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Upcoming Events
ABODE Book Club and Study Group
We’ll read and discuss The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully by Frank Ostaseski. The group meets 6:30-7:30 p.m. each Tuesday, starting Jan. 18, via Zoom.
Monday Meditation
An ABODE tradition! Our meditation format includes a brief reading chosen by the week’s facilitator to prepare us for 30 minutes of silent meditation. It could be a poem, a Scripture from any tradition or a reflection on a topic that opens us to deeper contemplation of awareness and love. After meditation, we follow with a conversation based on the reading or meditation. RSVP by sending an email to Edwin Sasek.
Monday Meditation is 5-6 pm, Mondays, hosted on Zoom.
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