Taizé Prayer & Worship

I was able to go to a Taize prayer and worship service last night with a couple of friends and I left incredibly refreshed after a pretty hard week. If you don't know, the Taizé community is an ecumenical monastic order in Southern France that stresses simplicity in worship and prayer for world peace and reconciliation. This past year, I've been able to visit some Greek Orthodox and Middle Eastern Orthodox churches and those experiences have given me a bigger context in which to frame my own faith. I love the atmosphere of reverence and awe created in these spaces, and I'm grateful that my Christian faith has a rich history that goes beyond my own singular context and story. Ahh. So many things to learn and so many postures of worship to glean from.