About Taizé
What exactly is Taizé Prayer? It is named after a small village in eastern France which, for over fifty years, has been the home of an ecumenical Christian monastic community. Members of the Taizé community belong to several different Christian denominations. Catholics, Anglicans, Protestants, Orthodox and others live and pray together, share a simple life and welcome thousands of visitors who come to spend time with them every year from all over the world.
Taizé prayer services are comprised of silence and song, candlelight and stillness, prayer and contemplation. The music is unique and distinctive. Taizé chants featuring deceptively simple refrains that are repeated, mantra-like, by the whole congregation, while instrumental and vocal soloists occasionally add verses on top of the repeated refrains. The music is accessible, participatory, and meditative.
All who attend these services, either online or in person are invited to stop, pray, and use the silence and meditative music as opportunity to listen to the “still, small voice” within. The mind calms and the soul opens up. God speaks and the heart hears.
We will hold an Interfaith Taizé service on Tuesday, June 9 at 7 p.m.
Upcoming Taizé Events
Sunday Forum: Interfaith Partnership
In this forum, we'll be joined by members of Clear Mountain Monastery to hear more about their ministry, share about our partnership, and preview the chants and songs for the Interfaith Taize service on June 9.
Interfaith Taize Service
All are invited to join a special Interfaith Prayer Liturgy in the style of Taizé, co-hosted by Saint Mark's Taizé Ministry and our neighbors Clear Mountain Monastery Buddhist Community (who meet on the cathedral campus every Saturday morning). The theme of the prayer service, Living Buddha, Living Christ, Living Spirit, celebrates the values that both traditions hold as sacred, represented by the "fruit of the Spirit" in Galatians, and the perfections (parami) of character necessary in Buddhism to achieve enlightenment. … Read More
