TAIZÉ
On the second Sunday of the month at 5:00 p.m., Lake Travis United Methodist Church holds a Taizé worship service, incorporating the songs of Taizé , which are simple phrases repeated again and again. Our worship service is a powerful ecumenical, candlelight communion service. Join us for an evening of healing prayer, silence, and Taizé music.

Taizé is the name of a small French village in Burgundy where Roger Schultz, a young seminary student founded a simple prayer community offering hospitality, refuge and reconciliation in response to the hostilities of the second world war. As knowledge and appreciation of the community grew, more people from all over Europe came to pray with the brothers of Taizé , leading to the chanting of songs and prayers in a variety of languages. Now, thousands of young people from all over the world and a variety of Christian traditions come to Taizé . Some weeks there are as many as 7,000 gathered from 70 nations. Three times a day, everyone gathers with the brothers in the Church of Reconciliation, built in 1962. The brothers want to be a source of spiritual grounding for young adults who would go back to their own communities and live their lives with a deepened sense of God's purpose for them.

As Brother Roger says, "Singing is one of the most important forms of prayer. A few words sung over and over again reinforce the meditative quality of the prayer...".

To learn more about Taizé, visit their web site: www.taize.com.