“Be still, and know that I am God!”
-Psalm 46:10
On Fridays at 3 p.m. Mo. Prisca Lee-Pae leads this service of Taize Songs, Centering Prayer, and Lectio-Divina. Contact Mo. Lee-Pae for more information.
“Real singleness of heart is hard to come by. It takes much patient practice and
purification. But Jesus himself does promise that the spirit of truth lies within you,
and it connects with reality, not just your subjective meanderings.”
– Cynthia
Bourgeault, “Wisdom Jesus”
More Information
Lectio Divina literally means “divine word” or “divine reading”. It involves choosing a short passage from the scripture, memorizing it, and then repeating it silently for some minutes. During practice, all ideas, thoughts and images related to the passage are allowed to arise spontaneously in the mind. It is somewhat in between contemplative reading and contemplative prayer.
The Taizé Community was founded by Brother Roger (Roger Schütz) in 1940. He pondered what it really meant to live a life according to the Scriptures and began a quest for a different expression of the Christian life.
Currently, each year, about 100,000 young adults between the ages of 18-30 make weeklong retreats at Taizé from cultures spanning the globe.
Amidst these multicultural assemblies of global pilgrims, a new kind of music developed to fit these global gatherings – many using brief sung texts in Latin set to simple melodies with verses in several vernacular languages.
The mystical sounding chants of Taizé are indeed a “music of participation.” The chants are brief texts that one sings over and over, using repetition as a mechanism for the words to enter one’s very being. It becomes the unending song that continues in one’s mind, long after one has stopped singing.
