Posted on Mon, Mar 12, 2007
Our last Wednesday evening lenten service will be a Taizé worship on March 21 at 7:15 pm. Before our Taize' service we invite you to a Soup Supper at 6:15 p.m. Pastor Cheryl will share her experience (and hopefully some pictures) at Taize', France, in May of 2005.
Taize' worship is a contemplative form of worship that includes simple chanting music, brief readings, and a period of silence. This is the form of worship used three times a day at Taize'. Taizé, in the south of Burgundy, France, is the home of an international, ecumenical community, founded there in 1940 by Brother Roger. The brothers are committed for their whole life to material and spiritual sharing, to celibacy, and to a great simplicity of life. Today, the community is made up of over a hundred brothers, Catholics and from various Protestant backgrounds, from more than twenty-five nations.
At the heart of daily life in Taizé are three times of prayer together. The brothers live by their own work. They do not accept gifts or donations for themselves. Some of the brothers are living in small groups – “fraternities” – among the very poor.
Since the late 1950s, many thousands of young adults from many countries have found their way to Taizé to take part in weekly meetings of prayer and reflection. In addition, Taizé brothers make visits and lead meetings, large and small, in Africa, North and South America, Asia, and in Europe, as part of a “pilgrimage of trust on earth”.
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