I think I know in my heart what I want to say in this and a future related post – but I also have an intuition that what I write may be misheard. But hey! Like that’s never happened before 😉 so here goes: Many of us will have been to a service with so
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I regularly, sadly, find myself in situations where people appear to think that liturgy is essentially singing and reciting lovely poetry to one another. My trying to shift towards some balance by stressing action, gesture, environment, structure, etc. in those contexts is usually met with bemused confusion. Let’s think about silence in liturgy. Claude Debussy
Having described my visits to Taize, I dug out my own photo of Br. Roger from 1983 (above). For me it speaks volumes of who he was (for me and for others) – and how I encountered him.
Brother Roger was born in Provence in Switzerland in 1915 the ninth and youngest child of a Protestant minister’s family. He studied theology at Strasbourg and Lausanne. In 1940 he left Switzerland for his mother’s native France. In 1940, he biked from Geneva to Taizé, a small village in Burgundy near Cluny. Taizé was at
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The latest edition of the newspaper The New Zealand Catholic has the following story: CHRISTCHURCH – Blessed Mary MacKillop and Blessed Teresa of Calcutta could soon feature in Anglican liturgies in New Zealand. In 2006, the Rev. Bosco Peters, Christ’s College chaplain and webmaster of the ecumenical liturgy site www.liturgy.co.nz, proposed a motion to that
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Prophet of unity, Encourager of youth, 16 August 2005 Early in my marriage, on a very lengthy world trip, Helen and I arrived at Taizé. Because of the special circumstances – including the distance from New Zealand – we were allowed to stay two weeks. One in group discussion. A second in silence. Brother Roger
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