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From: "Edward Andrews" <>
Subject: RE: Church of Ireland?
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 21:31:14 +0100
In-Reply-To: <00b501c02edb$59f33340$449ea4d0@jacknday>


Thanks for your kind comments.
Briefly, and lifted from the concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian
Church
The TAIZÉ COMMUNITY, an ecumenical monastic community founded in 1940 by
Roger Schutz (b. 1915). Schutz became convinced of the need for some form of
traditional monasticism within Protestantism; in 1940 he acquired a house at
Taizé in SE. France in which he sheltered Jewish and other refugees until
1942. With the German occupation he moved to Geneva and began living a
community life with Max Thurian and others. In 1944 they moved to Taizé and
the first seven brothers took solemn vows in 1949. The Rule of Taizé,
composed in 1952, provides for a life similar to that of other monastic
orders, except that the members dress as laymen and recite only three
Offices a day. Their main work lies in the promotion of Christian unity.
What is not said is that it is very much a place for youth during the
summer, and there is some of the most fantastic modern Church music which
you will get. There is a CD "Sing To God, Auvidis Distribution T 556.
Taize has a web page in a choice of languages, but I can't find the URL. It
is a very important part of the life of the Reformed Church in Europe.
Before anyone complains about this post it is of course a vestige of the
Huguenots who so often appear on S-I pages
Edward Andrews
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mary M. Lander [mailto:]
> Sent: 05 October 2000 15:47
> To:
> Subject: Re: Church of Ireland?
>
>
> That's nice----------except for the Jazz bands. The Presbyterian
> Church that
> I left has gone a bit "Holy Roller" which I could not
> take. Only-------what is Taize?
>
> Mary Lander
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 5:58 AM
> Subject: Re: Church of Ireland?
>
>
> > Actually, here in Pittsburgh the East Liberty Presbyterian Church is
> moving
> > ever closer to the Roman Catholic liturgy (same sung responses, blessing
> of
> > pets, advocating contemplative prayer & Taize), while at the same time,
> > curiously, trying to be more "modern" by having Jazz bands and
> "liturgical"
> > dancing. As the old cliche goes -- the more things change,
> the more they
> > stay the same.
> >
> > ______________________________
>
>

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