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Taizé Evensong
We offer a Taizé Evensong service once a quarter, from 7:30-8:30pm, and the next scheduled one is on:
"Jesus, remember me, when you come into your kingdom..." Christian meditation often focuses on a few simple words of Scripture that sink deeper into our hearts as we repeat them and listen to their meaning.
This worship time follows a similar model where the words of Scripture are sung, as they do in the Taizé Community in France. The songs are beautiful, simple, and prayerful, interspersed with reading of the Word and a time for silent prayer. Come join us for this lovely prayer service.
| Singing is one of the most important forms of prayer. A few simply words sung over and over again reinforce the meditative quality of the prayer and express a basic reality of faith that can quickly be grasped by the intellect but then gradually penetrate the heart and the whole being. |
Taizé is a village in southern France where Swiss Reformed pastor Roger Schultz founded a unique monastic community in 1940. He originally intended to establish a bridge between French and German Christians that would become a source of reconciliation. The bridge-building later extended to the effort to reconcile East and West and Protestant and Catholic. The Taizé Community is ecumenical, one of the few places where Catholics and Protestants share in Holy Communion together with the blessing of the churches. It has been a community that welcomes seekers. During the summer months, thousands of young people from all over Europe and beyond flock to the fields around the village to join in worship with the brothers and to study scripture together. Perhaps Taizé is best known as the source of many meditative chants and songs used in worship.
"In common prayer, the spirit of praise gives glimpses of the invisible. In it, you receive a kind of ‘shock of meaning.’ And within you comes welling up the wonder of a love.
– Brother Roger of Taizé
