Taizé Monthly Prayer Service

Our next service is May 2, 2024

Taizé is an ecumenical, meditative prayer experience using music, chants and scripture. We gather on the first Thursday of every month at 7 p.m. Each month we explore a different theme.

• The Thursday of each month, 7-8 p.m. central time
• Our next gathering is May 2, 2024
• In-person and Zoom options available.
• A recording will be available after the service. 

 Registration is appreciated. Register to get details about the live stream.

Download a copy of the program from our May service here: Taize Service for May 2, 2024.

Taizé for May 2: Prayer for Peace and Solidarity

Introduction

Saturday May 4 is World Labyrinth Day, a day when people around the world will pray in solidarity for peace at 1:00 p.m. as they walk a labyrinth in their own location. Tonight we anticipate that prayer for peace. We know that we live in a broken world.

Let’s pray for peace tonight.

Some of us experienced the solar eclipse a few weeks ago. People were in awe; they were in solidarity in experiencing God at work in the universe.

That eclipse reminded us that all these planets in the universe don’t just circle each other haphazardly. There is a definite pattern which we can observe. We already know when the next solar eclipse will happen in North America in 20 years.

What is Taizé?

Taizé prayer is practiced throughout the world. It is a meditative candle-lit form of community prayer that includes simple chants sung repeatedly, silence and prayers of praise and intercession. In prayer, we enter the silence, stilling the mind, opening the heart, surrendering to the action of the Spirit ever molding us into the image of Christ. The candles used in the service symbolize the presence of the risen Christ, who conquered darkness and sin and offers new life to all humankind.

Taizé Prayer comes from an ecumenical, monastic community in France and has spread to numerous spots around the world.

From the depths of the human condition, a secret aspiration rises up. Today many are thirsting for the essential reality: an inner life, signs of the Invisible. Nothing is more conducive to communion with the living God than meditative common prayer. When the mystery of God becomes tangible through the simple beauty of symbols, when it is not smothered by too many words, then a common prayer awakens us to heaven’s joy on earth.

All the videos of our Taize prayer services are available here.

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