Taize

[MoNiCa4316]

Has anyone here ever been to a taize service? The reason I'm asking is because I came across these YouTube videos and I think it's soo cool, I'd love to go even if you havent been, share your thoughts

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=HNojQd_ri_o

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=73ptUCEEwmI&feature=related

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=yFCXFosklWs&feature=related

 

[BAFRIEND]

I have been to taize and I was very moved by it. Here in Reno Taize is done either weekly or monthly (can't remember) at the college chapel.

I would recommend attending for the experience even though Taize is not Catholic.

 

[MoNiCa4316]

that's cool!
I thought it's done in some Catholic churches though?
Around Easter time, a parish in my area had Taize, but I didn't go

 

[BAFRIEND]

that's cool!
I thought it's done in some Catholic churches though?
Around Easter time, a parish in my area had Taize, but I didn't go

They do it in the chapel at the college here, in Sacramento they run Taize at the diocese retreat center.

It is a really a wonderful experience. I say Taize is not Catholic because it orignates from a non-Catholic monastic community in France.

 

[MoNiCa4316]

oh I see what you mean now I agree

I'd love to go to one of those someday..

God bless

 

[InTheCloud]

It was a ecumenical minded Reformed Monastic Community lead by the great late brother Roger Shultz who tried to make a Reformed type of monasticism that was not just a adaptation of Catholic monasticism ans in Lutheran or Anglican monasticism.

So he created a type of ecumenical services to share with Catholic and other monks and laymen.

 

[faerieevaH]

I have and I loved it. The monastery in France is actually dual by now, Catholic and protestant monks.
I played a Taize cd five or more times during the delivery....

 

[Peaceful Dove]

They do it in the chapel at the college here, in Sacramento they run Taize at the diocese retreat center.

It is a really a wonderful experience. I say Taize is not Catholic because it orignates from a non-Catholic monastic community in France.

Are you in the Sacramento Diocese? I am!
My son made is first Communion with our new Bishop in So. Cal.

 

[Peaceful Dove]

Our Catholic Charismatic Prayer Group has Taize in place of our regular Prayer Meetings during Lent.

Here is how we do it.

Our Music Minister plans it. puts candles out on the floor in the sign of the cross. We darken the room.
David, our Music minister plays and sings Psalms. Then we have long deep moments of silence where we contemplate the Psalm. After a bit, he prays another Psalm.
This is a very deep, silent time with the Holy Trinity.

It is amazing how wonderful it is. It is a wonderful Lenten preparation. Very contemplative.

 

[BAFRIEND]

Are you in the Sacramento Diocese? I am!
My son made is first Communion with our new Bishop in So. Cal.

I am in Reno now, but lived in Sac for twenty years. The last few years in Sac were none too happy while the cathedral was renovated, but isn't it beautiful now ?

I used to go to the cathedral every New Years and Memorial Day to light a candel. The capital is such a culture experience.

Reno is different. There are things I love about Reno like it smallness- but the Catholic community is different and takes some getting used to. The parishes are real close together in the city.

 

[BAFRIEND]

Anyone have any good Taize cd recommendations? I shopped last year for one but was at a loss.

 

[Globalnomad]

It wasn't really ever a non-Catholic community - Roger Schütz gathered Catholic as well as Protestant monks frm the beginning, and the Catholic ones went to Mass separately (later he had Catholic priests too, so Mass could be celebrated for the Catholics).

A "taizé service" held in a Catholic parish is beautiful, though really just a matter of a different atmosphere and special songs. The real experience is the original Taizé settlement and the summer gatherings they have. I went in 1979. It was a life-changing experience of the best of ecumenical pan-European Christian activism. The message was, stay faithful to your own Church and don't go form any new communities, but bring home with yourself the spirit of reconciliation - that was the key word, reconciliation - and live it. Reconciliation in the family, in the community, between communities.

The ecumenism too, was healthy. We prayed and made plans and spent our days together, but the church had a Catholic tabernacle in one aisle and an Orthodox iconostasis in the other, and we all had our own liturgies and Sacraments, reinforcing the message to stay true to your own Church and keep its rules and traditions.

Eva, is it still like that?

 

[kisstheson]

Me! I have! It's very beautiful and simple.

 

[SpiritualAntiseptic]

I sing that stuff at the monastery frequently. I'm not that big of a fan of it. *shrug*

 

[Peaceful Dove]

I am in Reno now, but lived in Sac for twenty years. The last few years in Sac were none too happy while the cathedral was renovated, but isn't it beautiful now ?

I used to go to the cathedral every New Years and Memorial Day to light a candel. The capital is such a culture experience.

Reno is different. There are things I love about Reno like it smallness- but the Catholic community is different and takes some getting used to. The parishes are real close together in the city.

Reno! Wow! Have great friends there.
Bishop Phil was my Bishop for many years in So. Cal and Deacon Joe Garcia is a very old friend from St Mels parish in So Cal.

Small world, isn't it?

 

[FullyMT]

St. Thomas Music Group has a CD that you can get on iTunes."Taize Chants - Jesus Remember Me"
They may have others too

 

[FullyMT]

Reno! Wow! Have great friends there.
Bishop Phil was my Bishop for many years in So. Cal and Deacon Joe Garcia is a very old friend from St Mels parish in So Cal.

Small world, isn't it?

Sacramento just got Bishop Jaime Soto, he Confirmed me! Wonderful man, very passionate, faith filled, and a good homilist (imho).

 

[MoNiCa4316]

thanks for the replies! Taize sounds really cool; and I think I'll get a CD sometime

 

[BAFRIEND]

Sacramento just got Bishop Jaime Soto, he Confirmed me! Wonderful man, very passionate, faith filled, and a good homilist (imho).

Weigand is the long time bishop of Sacramento and Soto is an auxillary coadjutor. Soto was sent to minister to the Hispanic community.

 

[newtaste]

There is a Taize prayer group that meets at St Patrick's Cathedral Parramatta in Sydney. The chanting is all live with an organist. I went once in 2007 and it was great.