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Online Taize Prayer

Second Sunday of every month, 5:00 pm Online.

Due to Covid-19, we have moved our second Sunday, Taizé style contemplative prayer service online. Join us on Zoom at 5:00 PM for a time of recorded instrumental meditations and readings. Then, we continue live on Zoom for communion and group prayer. Click this link to go directly to the Zoom waiting room and you will enter the meeting at 5:00 PM. Or, email Lisa Smith for a link to the service.

Online Taize with Convergence

What is Taizé?

“Taizé.” The word itself conjures up images of quiet and contemplation, of ancient history and simple relevance. Born out of a desire to live out the essential elements of faith that gives and serves, the Taize community in France models a style of worship and community that is drawing thousands to experience contemplation and cultural reconciliation.

Once a month we meet to enter into an intentional rhythm of song, scripture, silence and communal prayer. Silence has long been a part of spiritual practice, and is a welcome refuge here in the frenetic energy associated with the Washington, DC Metro area. Our lives are consumed by noise and updates and opinions and tasks, and we often insulate ourselves against a noisy internal dialogue because we are afraid of what might be discovered in silence.

For those who can enter into a shared silence, the benefits are exponential. The community serves to build a safe, fertile space for this intimate experience of prayer and reflection. We discover more of God and ourselves in this encounter and leave knowing a deeper, truer connection to a God is expansive enough to supply all of our needs and is small enough to meet with us in stillness and quiet.

Listen below to a live recording of the improvised instrumental meditation on the theme of “unity” from the Taizé service on April 8, 2018. Musicians: Ryan Walker, Fox Vernon, Dan ABH, Jay Smith.

 

And if you’d like to sing along, click below to hear some of our Taizé favorites recorded live at Convergence!


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