A Taizé service is a contemplative, meditative practice inspired by a monastic community Taizé in France. Its simplicity, repetition, and silence characterize it, creating a space for deep reflection and prayer.
The service features short, repetitive songs that are easy to learn and sing meditatively, helping the participants focus on the divine. Taizé services often include periods of silence, prayers, and readings. The service intends to foster an experience of inner peace, unity, and communion.
Karen Druker will provide a Taizé service for our community on Wednesday, November 20, from 7 pm to 8:30 pm. Here is what Karen says about the experience:
“Music has the ability to bypass the mind and sink into the heart.”
Breathing, stillness, rest, calm, allowing yourself to just “be” and not “do” for a little while. Settling into your heart and dropping into that place of inner knowing. With all that is going on in the world right now, give yourself a “time out” and allow yourself to be musically and spiritually nurtured.
This is a participatory musical experience where we sing, chant, meditate, and pray together. We create a sacred space by spending time chanting (singing repetitive and affirmative words over and over), being in silence, listening to short sacred, inspirational readings, and just allowing ourselves to “be.” The theme for our Wednesday, November 20th event will be about gratitude for yourself, your loved ones, and the world.
No need to be a good singer - just come with an open heart and a willingness to receive.
The service features short, repetitive songs that are easy to learn and sing meditatively, helping the participants focus on the divine. Taizé services often include periods of silence, prayers, and readings. The service intends to foster an experience of inner peace, unity, and communion.
Karen Druker will provide a Taizé service for our community on Wednesday, November 20, from 7 pm to 8:30 pm. Here is what Karen says about the experience:
“Music has the ability to bypass the mind and sink into the heart.”
Breathing, stillness, rest, calm, allowing yourself to just “be” and not “do” for a little while. Settling into your heart and dropping into that place of inner knowing. With all that is going on in the world right now, give yourself a “time out” and allow yourself to be musically and spiritually nurtured.
This is a participatory musical experience where we sing, chant, meditate, and pray together. We create a sacred space by spending time chanting (singing repetitive and affirmative words over and over), being in silence, listening to short sacred, inspirational readings, and just allowing ourselves to “be.” The theme for our Wednesday, November 20th event will be about gratitude for yourself, your loved ones, and the world.
No need to be a good singer - just come with an open heart and a willingness to receive.
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