TAIZÉ: THOUSANDS OF YOUNG PEOPLE DECIDE TO SPEND THE SUMMER PRAYING

In July and August, the meetings on the hill of Taizé, home to the ecumenical community founded by Frère Roger, are attended by thousands of young people. Every week – say the brethrens to SIR –, 3 to 4 thousand young people arrive. This week, the Europeans come from thirty different countries, but there are also young people from America, Africa and Asia. "For the brethrens, summer means renewed amazement, year after year: why do so many young people walk the road to the hill, time and time again?". "What is shared by the brethrens and the young who come from everywhere – write the brethrens of Taizé in a release – is common prayer. The many facets of the summer meetings give an increasingly central place to these shared moments, three times a day, in the Church of the Reconciliation. In the immense diversity of languages and cultures, in the extremely wide range of confessions that gathers these Christians from all horizons, in the variety of the subjects for reflection that are proposed day after day, He who gathers is the Christ resurrected". (continued)