Taizé
For many people the name "Taizé" evokes a certain style of singing that has become popular in more and more churches, retreat centres, campus parishes and even seminaries. For some, the word also suggests retreats and gatherings which attract large numbers of young adults. Still others are aware that Taizé is in fact an ecumenical community of brothers located in a small village in eastern France.
Brother Roger In 1940, he was twenty-five and another world war was tearing humanity apart. For several years, he had been carrying within him the idea of a community where it would be possible to be reconciled again and again, every day. He left Switzerland, the country of his birth, and settled in France, where his mother came from, to be where the war was raging. As he wrote later, "The more a believer wishes to live the absolute call of God, the more essential it is to do so in the heart of human distress."
