Ralph Ray Walsh who, on entering the Taizé Community in 1962, took the name of Brother Pascal, died on March 16, 2023, after a long illness.He was born on October 12, 1940 in Illinois, USA. His father was a pastor and he had a brother, now deceased, and a sister. Because of his membership in the Episcopal Church in the United States, he was the first to expand the range of denominational (...)
18 March
Pierre Emery who, on entering the Taizé Community in 1953, took the name of Brother Pierre-Yves, died peacefully at Taizé on Sunday morning, March 12, 2023, while the brothers were celebrating the Eucharist in the Church of Reconciliation. For some time he had been weakening, losing his strength and had to remain in bed during the last week, but he remained lucid until the end and, on the (...)
15 March
Brother Francesco 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. The funeral celebration will take place in Yogyakarta on 9 December. In Taizé, a Eucharist will be celebrated in his memory on Thursday 8 at 8.30 pm. Francesco was born in 1965 in Indonesia - the second of six brothers and sisters. He (...)
9 December 2022
Tuesday, June 4, 2019 At a time when society and the Church are attempting to shed light on sexual abuses and assaults, notably towards minors and fragile persons, my brothers and I have judged it necessary to speak out as well. For decades now at Taizé we have been welcoming, week after week, thousands of young and not-so-young people from Europe and from the whole world. Aware of our (...)
21 November 2022
In the very particular context of what the world is experiencing at this time, we remember that at Easter 1970 in Taizé a “joyful news” was announced. It was the first stage in the preparation of the “Council of Youth”, which opened in 1974A fortnight before Easter, around twenty young adults from every continent gathered together with Brother Roger to work on this statement. It was made public (...)
16 April 2020
Brother Thomas died during the night of 11th - 12th January, 2019. He would have had his 80th birthday in early February.Signs of a long-term illness appeared more than three years ago, and over the last year and a half, his health diminished a lot, and this included a loss of memory. However, apart from one extended stay in hospital after a fall, he stayed at home in Taizé until the end. He (...)
19 January 2019
Brother Alois (Alois Löser) was born on June 11th, 1954 in Bavaria, subsequently living in Stuttgart. His parents were born and grew up in the Sudetenland, a region then part of Czechoslovakia. Of German origin, Brother Alois has held French nationality since 1984 and is a Roman Catholic. After several visits to Taizé, beginning in 1970, he stayed for a year as a (...)
3 September 2013
Many young people come to Taizé every year, but how can they be encouraged to pray and work with others in the places where they live? The notion of a pilgrimage of trust wants to address this concern by proposing to each person to set out... "Walk forward on your way, because it exists only by your walking. " First of all a meeting During the stages of the pilgrimage of trust, whether big or small and international or local, the participants and their hosts are (...)
31 January 2012
After a time of preparation, a new brother in the community makes his lifelong commitment. Here are the words used to express this commitment.Beloved brother, what are you asking for? The mercy of God and the community of my brothers. May God complete in you what he has begun. Brother, you trust in God’s mercy: remember that the Lord Christ comes to help your humble faith and that committing himself with you, he fulfils for you his promise: Truly, there is no one who has left everything (...)
20 November 2010
Everything began in 1940 when, at the age of twenty-five, Brother Roger left Switzerland, the country where he was born, to go and live in France, the country his mother came from. For years he had been ill with tuberculosis, and during that long convalescence he had matured within him the call to create a community. When the Second World War began, he had the conviction that without wasting time he should come to the assistance of people going through this ordeal, just as his grandmother (...)
8 March 2008
Today, the Taizé Community is made up of about hundred brothers, Catholics and from various Protestant backgrounds, coming from around thirty nations. By its very existence, the community is a “parable of community” that wants its life to be a sign of reconciliation between divided Christians and between separated peoples. The brothers of the community live solely by their work. They do not (...)
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