Talk:Taizé Community
Just added news from Roger's death. Feel free to modify as details emerge in the following days.
Taize Services in the US
Hi, I wrote the brief part about Taize services in the US. I hope that's ok. This page seems to be specifically about the Taize community more than the services, so I hope it's ok that I put the article here. Please write to me if it is inappropriate and suggest where (if anyplace) I should put this info. The reason I wanted to add the info is that I think many people would love the Taize service (as we know it here in the US), and so I thought it might be nice to have it on Wikipedia.
Sarum blue 14:54, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
Hello,
Thank you. But I would prefer to remove it (which I just have). For three reasons really:
1) The community has always been very clear that it does not have a "movement" around it. And this content could be construed in the opposite way.
2) The character of the prayer you mention is just a specific example and cannot be generalised (as you do) to all prayers which use music from Taizé or call themselves "Taizé prayers".
3) A page which is about the Community of Taizé as such should, we feel, remain just about the community. (If we start with prayers in the USA, then why not the Philippines, Chile, UK, Korea, etc?)
By all means place the article somewhere else as a description of clearly identified prayers in which you're involved.
Wikimonk 09:33, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
Other corrections
I have also made some other corrections. e.g. Priory -> Community (the community has never been known as a "Priory"). and "thousands of people visiting each week", I've changed to "with many thousand people visiting each year".
And removed the reference to Orthodox members of the Community (there are, as yet, none).
Wikimonk 09:33, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
I am just making a similar change to the one made earlier. Namely, removing the section "Influence Abroad". A page about the Taizé Community should remain focussed on the Community, not on groups which have a more or less tenuous connection with the Community. Perhaps you could create another page about "Prayers in the US using songs from Taize"? The paragraph suggests that the Community's main influence outside France is in North America. This is to give an incorrect impression.
I have put in a couple of photos of the evening prayer and of small group meetings at Taizé.