Taizé

An hour of prayer, music and silence

Four Sundays in Advent; December 2nd, 9th, 16th, & 23rd
4:00 -5:00 p.m.

St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, 510 Jefferson Street, Red Bluff, California

Taizé prayer involves the repetition of simple sung Christian phrases. The experience of singing these phrases nourishes us on a deep non-verbal level. The service consists of quiet chanting, scripture reading, petitions and silence. It allows us to come together to the cross during this Advent Season to pray, to bring our burdens and the burdens of our world and all that is in our hearts to Jesus Christ.

Taizé is the name of the village in France where Brothers of an Ecumenical community reside and where young adults have been gathering for this type of prayer since the late 1950’s. Many churches and retreat centers throughout the world regularly offer this type of meditative communal prayer.

“Nothing is more conducive to a communion with the living God than a meditative common prayer with, as its high point, singing that never ends and that continues in the silence of one’s heart when one is alone again.”
Brother Roger of Taizé