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    • Brother Alois received by Pope Francis
    • February 2018: News of the Migrants Welcomed in Taizé
    • New Decorations in the Church: A Work in Progress
    • Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
    • Council 2017: Prayer by brother Alois
    • “Coexister”: Bonds of friendship growing deeper
    • Patriarch Bartholomew in Taizé Tuesday, 25 April
    • Brother Alois received by Pope Francis
    • An Easter Broadcast from Taizé
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    • Refugees: helping fraternity to grow
    • Basel 2017: On social media
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    • The Prior of Taizé in South Sudan and Sudan
    • Taizé accompanies the preparation of “COP21”
    • Prayers for the Protection of the Creation
    • Prayer by brother Alois after the tragic events in Paris
    • From Darfur to Taizé by way of Calais
    • March 2016: Visit to Taizé by the French National Office for Refugees
    • A Syrian family has arrived at Taizé
    • Meeting between Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill: Prayer by Brother Alois
    • March 2016: Brother Alois received by Pope Francis
    • Garden of Solidarity in Taizé
    • Brother Denis (1934-2015)
    • The year 2015 at Taizé in the media
    • Easter in Taizé: Celebrating the Resurrection in the hope of a better world
    • The Sisters of Saint Andrew have been at Taizé for 50 years
    • Message by Brother Alois for the end of Ramadan
    • Unaccompanied Minors Welcomed
    • Prayer by Brother Alois: After the Attack at Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray
    • Prayer for Peace: On Sundays at Taizé, the bell of peace will ring for the city of Aleppo, Syria
    • The Saint Irenaeus Group at Taizé
    • Council of the Community: Prayer by Brother Alois
    • Brother Jean-Philippe (1946-2014)
    • Brother Alois received in private audience by Pope Francis
    • Pope Francis speaks about Taizé and the search for Christian unity
    • Brother Alois in Canterbury
    • Brother Frank (1935-2014)
    • An afternoon of solidarity in the region of Taizé
    • Brother Alois received by Pope Francis for a private audience
    • Brother Alois spent Christmas in Syria
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    • Echoes from the Meetings
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    • Lenten Conférence in Paris
    • Weekend of friendship between young Christians and Muslims: Testimonies by Brother Alois and some young adults
    • The big weeks begin again
    • The Photo of the Moment
  • Visit of Patriarch Bartholomew to Taizé
    • Two video clips of common prayer
    • Visit of Patriarch Bartholomew to Taizé: Words of Welcome by Brother Alois
    • Speech during the Common Prayer
    • The Key Moments in Photos
  • Vocation and History
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    • A lifelong commitment
    • About Taizé: The Community Today
    • A pilgrimage of trust on earth
    • Brother Alois, Prior of Taizé
  • Brother Roger, Founder of Taizé
    • 12 May 1915 – 16 August 2005: Homage to Brother Roger
    • Why Brother Roger died
    • A way of reconciliation
      • Benedict XVI speaks of Brother Roger: “An ecumenism lived spiritually”
      • Interview with Brother Alois: Something that was without precedent
      • Mgr Daucourt, Bishop of Nanterre: Ecumenism is first of all an exchange of gifts
      • Déclaration by the French Protestant Federation: Let us respect the memory of Brother Roger
    • Photos of Brother Roger
    • Video: Brother Roger: A key word from my youth
  • Other people on Taizé
    • John Paul II: One passes through Taizé as one passes close to a spring of water
    • Paul Ricœur: “Liberating the core of goodness”
    • Olivier Clément: "Trust will have the last word"
    • Celebration of Taizé’s 70th Anniversary
      • Celebration of the 70th anniversary of Taizé - Messages received
  • Brothers living in other places
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        • Meetings in Nairobi: April 2011
        • Meetings at Nairobi: December 2010
        • Meetings at Nairobi: August 2010
        • Retreat at Nairobi: April 2010
    • The brothers in Senegal
      • The brothers in Senegal
      • A fraternité in Dakar
      • Sénégal: Young people from the villages around Taizé visiting Dakar
      • Lets go and see ak benn!
      • "Ak benn"
      • Voluntary drains clean-up in Grand-Yoff!
      • Griots at the Taizé house in Dakar
      • Refugees in Dakar
      • Locked and barred?
      • The children in Dakar are also accompanying COP21
    • The brothers in Bangladesh
      • The brothers in Bangladesh
      • Estema, the “assembly” at Tongi
      • The station children’s club
      • Rajshahi – following the meeting in Kolkata
      • Learning for life: The stipend program schools in Mymensingh
      • "Singing as we go"
      • Islam in Bangladesh
      • As Christmas draws near
      • Sing to the tune of a new life
      • Floods in August 2007
      • Visits in Nepal
      • On Christmas Day: a great gust of joy
      • Bangladesh: Festival for street children in Dhaka
      • Meeting in Mymensingh, June 2012
      • October 2012 : News of the brothers in Bangladesh
      • Bangladesh: A clown in Dhaka’s main railway station
    • The brothers in Korea
      • The brothers in Korea
      • A Life of waiting
      • A visit to the North
      • In Seoul: some hours of prayer and silence
    • The brothers in Brazil
      • The brothers in Brazil
      • A week of prayer for Christian Unity at Alagoinhas
      • Apprenticeships: Thirsting for a future: journeys on paths unknown
      • Brazil, October 2015: Pilgrimage of Trust in Salvador
      • The "brincadeira"
      • The brincadeira: “It is never too late to learn!”
      • The seeing and talking hands club
      • The "Emmaus" children
      • “Jornada da Confiança” at Vitoria da Conquista
      • An evening in the neighbourhood
      • Three months in Haiti
  • The Brothers’ Work
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    • The ceramic adventure
    • “Circle Colours”
    • New Publications
    • Acts of the two colloquia held at Taizé in 2015
    • A new film: Moments in the Life of Brother Roger
    • New CD: «LAUDAMUS TE»
  • Solidarity: Operation Hope
    • An action of solidarity in North Korea
    • Portraits of Some Projects
  • Anniversaries 2015: Towards a new solidarity
    • From 1940 to 2015…
    • Prayers and Acts of Solidarity across the world
    • Many Church Leaders and Representatives of Other Religions at Taizé
    • Gathering for a New Solidarity: Workshops in Taizé
    • 16 August 2015: Messages Received from Religious Leaders
    • Meditations on Joy, Simplicity and Mercy
    • Gathering for a New Solidarity: Photos
    • Taizé: 10 May: Festive and collected atmosphere for the centenary of Brother Roger’s birth
    • Summer 2015: ARTtogether : Exhibition and Hands-On Workshops at Taizé
    • The icon of mercy
    • Gathering for a New Solidarity: Echoes from the week
    • Gathering for a New Solidarity: Workshops at Taizé
Olivier Clément
 

"Trust will have the last word"

A writer and theologian, professor at the Saint Sergius Institute of Orthodox Theology in Paris, Olivier Clément strives to facilitate the meeting between Christians of the East and the West. A close friend of the Community, he has written a book called, "Taizé: A meaning to life” (GIA Publications). Here are some extracts.

At Taizé, brothers from different and sometimes opposing denominations, cultures, races, and languages pray and work together. Yes, it is really possible; Christ destroys every separating wall. This historical and geographical variety becomes unimportant beside the variety of personal gifts. The community is a beehive of activity. Some brothers are creators of beauty: they paint pictures or icons, or they produce wonderful pottery which can ennoble everyday life. Others make translations and print important works from the Christian tradition. Languages are also studied, in response to the international calling of the community. It is a small but deeply experienced foretaste of the reconciled and transfigured humanity towards which history is painfully groping; and in this process of history, the Spirit is always at work, undermining whatever is impenetrable yet illuminating the creations of art, science and spirituality.
Young people today are tired of talk and tired of scoffing: they want authenticity. It is no use talking to them about communion if we cannot show them a place where communion is being worked out - "come and see." At such a place people are welcomed as they are without being judged; no one is asked for their doctrinal passport; but nevertheless no secret is made of the fact that everyone is gathered around Christ, and that with him - "I am the way," he said - a way forward begins for those who want it. (p.12)

This link between a deep spiritual experience and a creative opening to the world is at the heart of the meetings at Taizé, which have been centered for many years on the theme “inner life and human solidarity.” This is the kind of Christianity we should be aiming at, for the more someone becomes a person of prayer the more they become a person who is responsible. In fact, nothing shows more responsibility than to pray. This is something that really needs to be understood and communicated to young people. Prayer is not a diversion. It is not a sort of drug for Sunday morning. It involves us in the mystery of the Father, in the power of the Holy Spirit, around a face that reveals every other face for us, and which in the end makes us servants of every human face. (p.46)

One of the key words at Taizé is "trust". The meetings organized by the community in Europe and on the other continents make up part of what is called a "pilgrimage of trust on earth". The word "trust" is perhaps one of the humblest of words, one of the most everyday and simple words that there are, but nevertheless it is one of the most essential. Instead of speaking about "love", of agape, or even of "communion", of koinonia, which are heavy words, we could perhaps more often speak of "trust", because in trust all of these realities are present. In trust there is the mystery of love, the mystery of communion, and finally there is the mystery of God as Trinity. (p.69)

Last updated: 10 April 2008

Daily Bible Reading

Tue, 24 April
Paul writes: I did not come among you with eloquence or wise arguments to announce the mystery of God. I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ crucified, so that your faith might rest not on human wisdom but on the power of God.
1 Corinthians 2:1-5
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For the Diary

27 April - 1 May, Ukraine:
Lviv 2018
5 - 8 July, Taizé:
Weekend of friendship between young Christians and Muslims
8 - 12 August, Hong Kong SAR China:
2018 Meeting in Hong Kong
19 - 26 August, Taizé:
Reflection week for 18-35 year-olds
28 December 2018 - 1 January 2019, Spain:
At the end of 2018 in Madrid
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Podcasts

2018-04-11 : Confitemini Domino /Alleluia 7 + Psalm 104/ Matthew 11:28-30 / Kristus, din Ande / Prayer by Brother Alois / Gib mich ganz zu eigen Dir
IMG/mp3/taize_podcast_2018-04-11.mp3
11 April 2018
2018-04-05 Easter Day: Introduction / Prayer by Brother Alois / Lumen Christi / Maranatha / Exultet / John 20:1-9 / Christus resurrexit
IMG/mp3/taize_podcast_2018-04-05_easter_day.mp3
11 April 2018
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