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Future Taizé services:
January 15, 2012 - 7:30 p.m. (Martin Luther King)
April 2, 2012 - 7:30 p.m. (Monday in Holy Week)
June 3, 2012 - 7:30 p.m. (Trinity Sunday)
What is Taizé? The Taizé Community, an ecumenical monastic community in a small village in the Burgundy region of France, has its origins in World War II. The purpose of its founders was to work ecumenically at furthering peace within the human family by engendering reconciliation and healing of divisions among Christians. The Taizé Brothers regain their own faith traditions but join together in their work for unity, peace and justice. The Brothers developed a style of prayer consisting of simple meditative chants as well as periods of silence. Today, Taizé is a place of pilgrimage for thousands of Christians, particularly young people, from all over the world.
Taizé at St. Paul's At St. Paul's Cathedral, Evening Prayer is sung in the manner of Taizé four times a year. A candle-lit service lasting about an hour, it includes quiet chant from both within and outside the Taizé Community, readings from Scripture, sung and spoken prayer, incense, icons, and periods of meditative silence. The flexible interior of the Cathedral nave lends itself to this style of prayer, which has been welcomed by many, young and old alike, as a calm and contemplative approach to God at the end of the day.
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