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Historical moment of Christian unity with this blessing given
#together
by
@Pontifex
, Patriarch Bartholomew,
@JustinWelby
and twenty Church leaders of all Christian denominations: an ecumenical vigil of prayer to entrust to the Spirit the work of the upcoming session of
@Synod_va
#Taiz
é | Brother Alois will hand over his office as prior to Brother Matthew, who is English and by denomination Anglican. The change of prior will take place on the first Sunday of Advent, 3 December 2023.
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The
#Taiz
é Community has a new prior! Yesterday evening Brother Alois handed over his office to Brother Matthew in the presence of representatives of different Churches and many friends of the Community, as well as young people currently in Taizé.
It was the biggest Portuguese week ever in Taizé: more than 2,000 young people from various dioceses, including 600 from Viseu, spent a week on the snow-covered hillside. The bishop of Aveiro joined them for a few days.
Today is the 13th anniversary of brother Roger's death. Here is the prayer written by Brother Alois on this occasion: "God of love, we give you thanks for the life of our Brother Roger. He sought ardently to live from trust in you"...
#Taize
#Taiz
é
Frère Alois a pris la parole au début de la prière de ce soir pour confier à Dieu les pompiers et secouristes actuellement en lutte contre les flammes à
#NotreDame
de Paris.
The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, will be at
#Taiz
é on Saturday, August 27.
More info on
Brother Alois reacts: “This visit, in the serious crises of the present time, will be a sign of hope.”
Today is the anniversary of Brother Roger's death. The prayer by Brother Alois for this day is available online like every day
"Christ Jesus, (...) the fire of your love burned within him, that love which gathers all human beings into one."
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#Taiz
é
The young people present at
#Taiz
é this week, coming from Portugal, France and Germany among other countries, took this picture as a gesture of solidarity with all those who are suffering from the war in
#Ukraine
.
#PrayForPeace
Aujourd'hui, la communauté de
#Taiz
é se souvient de frère Roger, décédé le 16 août 2005 à l'âge de 90 ans. La prière de frère Alois pour ce jour est publiée ici :
It’s in Madrid.
The next European Meeting will take place in Madrid from 28th December 2018 to 1st January 2019! Brother Alois announced it today during the evening prayer in Basel.
See you in Madrid
#Taize
#Europeanmeeting
#Madrid
#FromBaseltoMadrid
With the agreement of the local authorities, from Monday 3 May on we are delighted once again to be able to welcome people in
#Taiz
é. The strict observance of all health measures remains imperative and is required of everyone.
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Brother Roger would turn 103 today. The founder of
#Taiz
é was born on May 12, 1915.
“Do we have hearts large enough, imaginations open enough, love burning enough to enter upon that Gospel way: to live as people who are reconciled, without delaying a single day?”
Prayer by Brother Alois for the 15th anniversary of Brother Roger's death: "God of love, we give you thanks for the life of our Brother Roger. He sought intensely to live from trust and to express your infinite goodness towards each human being"
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#Taiz
é
En ce premier jour de 2022, les frères vous adressent, ainsi qu’à vos familles et vos proches, tous leurs vœux de santé et de paix pour l’année nouvelle.
On this first day of 2022, the brothers of
#Taiz
é send you all their best wishes for health and peace for the new year.
On Monday 18 March, Brother Matthew was received in private audience by Pope Francis, for the first time since he became prior of the
#Taiz
é Community.
Picture (C) Vatican Media
@Pontifex
@VaticanNews
A
#Taiz
é les frères descendent vers la source pour la procession du dimanche des
#Rameaux
en présence de l'archevêque Job de Telmessos et de trois évêques luthériens suédois. Belle entrée dans la semaine sainte à tous !
#DimancheDesRameaux
A very important day in
#Taiz
é : tonight the community will have a new Prior! Br. Alois and Br. Matthew are right now meeting some journalists in Taizé and online. And the prayer will be broadcast live tonight at 8.30pm (Paris time) on
Cette semaine marque à Taizé un double anniversaire : les 80 ans de la première arrivée de frère Roger à
#Taiz
é, le 20 août 1940, et les 15 ans de son décès, le 16 août 2005.
Easing of lockdown: it's now possible again to come and stay in Taizé. The brothers are delighted to be able to welcome once again people in Taizé since yesterday.
More info:
At
#Taiz
é this afternoon a bell rung for three minutes in order to commemorate the hour of Christ's death. Everyone on the hill was invited to remain silent during this time.
This Monday, March 12, Brother Alois was received in private audience by Pope Francis. As every year, he wanted to go to Rome to inform the Pope of the initiatives taken by the
#Taiz
é Community in its ecumenical search and in its welcome of young people.
This morning, Pope Francis received Brother Alois in private audience. They spoke in particular about the preparation of the event "
@Together2023
| Gathering of the People of God", which will take place on 30 September in Rome before the assembly of
@Synod_va
#WalkingTogether
A virtual choir sings “In resurrectione tua” for
#Easter
! 50 young adults from all over the world - singers and instrumentalists - share from their homes the song “In resurrectione tua”. Thank you to all the musicians, singers and the coordination team!
The President of the European Commission Ursula
@vonderleyen
is speaking today at
@taize
, on the second day of her stay. The conference can be followed live on the YouTube channel
On Thursday 25th June, the Prior of Taizé, Brother Alois, was received in a private audience by Pope Francis at the Vatican. This audience, originally scheduled for the end of March, had been postponed because of the current pandemic. More info:
#Taiz
é
In Ljubljana tonight, brother Matthew just announced that the 47th European meeting will take place next year in the capital city of Estonia, TALLINN!
#JourneyingTogether
#TaizeLjubjlana
#TaizeTall
ìnn
Happy New Year !!
Frohes neues Jahr !!
Bonne année !!
The 40th European meeting is coming to an end. The pilgrims started the new year in silence and a prayer vigil for peace, followed by a festival of nations.
From tonight onwards, the live broadcast will start again from a small house at
#Taiz
é with a group of brothers. It will be broadcast on the YouTube channel . We go back to the usual schedule: 8.30pm (CET / Paris time).
Following the directive of the French government concerning the resumption of religious services, the Eucharist this morning at
#Taiz
é was open to the public
#Welcome
Prayer for peace in Ukraine | This Friday at 8pm (Paris time), the brothers and all the young people who are present in
#Taiz
é will pray in silence for peace in
#Ukraine
; the prayer will be broadcast live.
#PrayerForPeace
Photo: Taizé Lviv, April 2018
Prière de frère Alois pour l'Epiphanie : “Dieu éternel, en envoyant le Christ Jésus, tu as fait briller une lumière nouvelle dans le monde.”
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Vitrail de frère Eric, église de la Réconciliation à
#Taiz
é
#Epiphanie
🎤There are still two prayers with songs of
#Taiz
é in
#Lisbon
for
#WorldYouthDay
, today and tomorrow in the church of São Domingos at 2pm (Portugal time).
📽️ It's also possible to follow the live stream via the following link:
#WYD2023
#WYDLisbon
“Christ Jesus, today, when we remember how at the end of your life on earth you returned to the presence of God, you enable us to understand that you never abandon anyone to loneliness. You send your Holy Spirit, the comforter, to be with us for ever”
#AscensionDay
#Taize
#Prayer
En cette fin d'année, les frères qui ne participent pas à la rencontre européenne de
#TaizeRostock
prient dans la petite église romane du village.
➡️Horaires des prières à
#Taiz
é pour la fin de l'année:
This morning, Brother Alois, prior of Taizé, was received in private audience by Pope Francis.
Ce lundi 21 mars 2022, frère Alois, prieur de
#Taiz
é, a été reçu en audience privée par le pape François.
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(C) Photo Vatican Media
@VaticanNews
On Thursday evening at
#Taiz
é, Brother Alois announced this good news: for the first time, an international youth meeting will be organized in
#Lebanon
from Friday, 22 March to Tuesday, 26 March 2019. More information:
A weekend youth meeting was held in
#Taiz
é in 1966. But it was 1968 that the Community first invited young people for gatherings that continued through the whole summer. So this year's meetings will be 50-year milestone. Here are some pictures from the 60s and early 70s.
Ce matin, comme chaque samedi, les frères de
#Taiz
é sont présents sur les marchés de
#Tournus
et de
@VilledeCluny
. En vente: poterie artisanale, biscuits
#Carr
ésDeTaizé, ail des ours et tisanes. Bienvenue !
At
#Taiz
é, since last Tuesday, the brothers have been living, praying and eating in eight separate household groups. On the collage, there are photos of prayer in the different places. This week we will continue to broadcast the prayer every evening at 8:30 pm (CET).
#COVID19
On air now, the ecumenical vigil of prayer
#Together2023
live from St Peter Square in Rome: a "Gathering of the People of God" prepared for many months with
@Synod_va
and many ecclesial partners. The broadcast is available in 8 languages on the YouTube channels of
@VaticanNews
On Sunday morning, for the Feast of Palm Sunday, the brothers and young people present in
#Taiz
é gathered at 9.15am at the Saint-Etienne spring. Recalling the entry of Jesus into Jerusalem, all went from there to the Church of Reconciliation, with branches in hand.
On this Day of
#PrayerForPeace
in the
#HolyLand
, prayer by brother Alois: "God, of love, we entrust to you the victims of violence and war, particularly in Israel and Palestine, the families in mourning and the people currently held hostage..."
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#Taiz
é
Les cloches sonnent de nouveau à
#Taiz
é pour annoncer la prière du soir ! La prière aura lieu à 19h45 pour les trois semaines à venir afin que soit respecté le couvre-feu.
#Bienvenue
Tonight, during the evening prayer, a young brother will make his life commitment in the
#Taiz
é Community. Like every Saturday evening, you can take part in the online prayer, at 20.30 (Central European Summer Time, UTC+2)
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Blessed Feast of
#Pentecost
! The prayer by Brother Alois for this day is published online on the
#Taiz
é website
“Holy Spirit, Comforter, on this day of Pentecost we welcome your presence. (...) And we ask you: pour out your peace to all humanity.”
Today in
#Rostock
, the welcome for the participants at the 45th
#Taiz
é European meeting is going on since the early morning. At
#HanseMesse
, the young people from Croatia, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Slovakia and the Netherlands are welcomed.
#TaizeRostock
#Willkommen
In recent years at
#Taiz
é, various innovations have been incorporated into the Holy Week celebrations, such as the washing of feet on Thursday evening. The prayer that was read today at midday is online at
#MaundyThursday
Yesterday evening, the brothers finished their annual council gathering at
#Taiz
é with a common prayer open to all which included the gesture of “prostration” by which the brothers recall the day of their life commitment. (Picture: JB Bagarić)
From Monday evening, at 8:30 p.m. CET, a prayer with a small group of
#Taiz
é brothers will be broadcast live from the community. Follow us on
#COVID
ー19
Brother Francesco (1965-2022) | Brother of the
#Taiz
é community, he entered the life of eternity on 7 December 2022, while in Indonesia, his native country, where he was visiting his family for a few weeks.
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At
#Taiz
é, the brothers will be in their annual council gathering from 5-10 Feb. On Sunday 10, at 7 pm, at the conclusion of the council, a common prayer open to all will include the gesture of “prostration” by which the brothers recall the day of their life commitment.
Cet après-midi à
#Taiz
é, rencontre avec Marguerite Léna, membre de la communauté apostolique Saint-François-Xavier, philosophe et éducatrice, qui livre ses réflexions sur le thème "Intériorité à l'ère du numérique" et dialogue avec les jeunes présents cette semaine.
Message by brother Alois:
"On this day when Desmond Tutu has entered into the life of eternity, I would like to express my affection, and that of all the
#Taiz
é Community, to you who have shared his life and his struggles for nearly sixty-five years."
Getting ready for the evening broadcast live from
#Taize
, tonight in a new place: Isba, the small house located near the church of Reconciliation. It will be live from 20.30pm CET on
Pope John Paul II in Taizé, 1986: "I would like to express to you my affection and my trust with these simple words with which Pope John XXIII who loved you so much greeted Brother Roger one day: "Ah, Taizé, that little springtime!"
#DziekujemyJaniePawle2
Ce matin, frère Alois, prieur de
#Taiz
é, était invité à intervenir à
#Rome
lors de l'ouverture du chemin synodal de l'Eglise catholique.
Photo: Tilen Čebulj
Suite au décret gouvernemental concernant la reprise des cultes, les frères de
#Taiz
é se réjouissent de pouvoir de nouveau accueillir celles et ceux qui le souhaitent pour les prières communes à partir de ce dimanche 24 mai, à 10h.
Prayer by Brother Alois for Christmas: "Christ Jesus, sent by God, we praise you with all our heart. You became one of us; you shared the joys and the sorrows of a human life...."
#MerryChristmas
Picture: "Nativity" by Brother Sylvain (Oran, Algeria)
A Palestinian group was at
#Taiz
é a few days ago. They have held a workshop on the following theme: "Being a young person in Palestine today: young Christians and Muslims share their hopes and the daily challenges they face."
#PrayForPeace
“As we seek you, God of mercy, we ask you for peace for our hearts. That peace is there, in the way that you, O God, look with infinite goodness on each of our lives.”
Prayers read every day at midday in the church of Reconciliation at
#Taiz
é:
« Le mal n’aura pas le dernier mot ». Alors que le carême commence ce 2 mars dans un climat international tendu à cause de la guerre menée par la Russie en Ukraine, le prieur de Taizé frère Alois s'exprime longuement dans
@LaVieHebdo
When we hear the cry of a wounded person, when we look in their eyes, when we listen, when we touch those who suffer, we are brought closer to Jesus, who is poor among the poor, they bring us into greater intimacy with him. - From today's meditation of Brother Alois.