If Cass Davies can’t attend her monthly Taizé service, life doesn’t feel quite right. As soon as she steps into the church, lit with candles and filled with music, she feels tension slip away. An ...

The enormous ecumenical impact of the Taizé community, with its haunting music and its tradition of silent prayer and meditative chant, is astonishing given that the community never promoted itself.

Redlands First United Methodist Church invites the community to a Taize service at 7:30 p.m. Sunday. The Taize service is a contemplative worship experience in the style of the Taize community of ...

Taizé worship, originating from France, incorporates music and prayers with songs in many languages, including chants and icons from the Eastern Orthodox tradition. Kinley Lange has been working as a ...

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In a darkened worship center, illuminated by soft lights and the faint glow of candles, 35 people sit quietly in deep meditation. Eventually, the silence is broken by a monastic chant, accompanied by ...

The Catholic Social Communications ministry has recorded a CD album of Taize songs in the Khmer language for use in community prayers and functions. The compact disc, released in early July with ...

Taize prayer meetings have helped young people in Ho Chi Minh City encounter God and build communion with others, according to young people who participated in the monastic-type prayer sessions. "This ...

Founded in 1940 by Brother Roger, Taize began as a Protestant attempt to draw in some of the Catholic monastic traditions, including plainchant and meditation. It is now a community of more than 100 ...

Some 70 religious brothers from all over the world are kneeling in long rows at the heart of the Church of Reconciliation, their white robes touching the ground. They sing softly, their masked voices ...