As
we move towards the season of Lent this morning’s service took the form of a
meditative reflection and prayer in the Taizé style.
At
the beginning we pondered the origins of Taizé in 1940 and that it was there
for German, Jew and political refugees. Brother Roger, the founder of the
community understood the plight of these people and from this sprang the
community whose trademark is one of love and reconciliation between Christians
and man and fellow man. Jesus prays in St John’s Gospel ‘ I ask that they
may all be one. As you Father are in me and I am in you may they also be in us.
(John 17; 20, 21).
In
many ways there are no real winners in war; the innocent suffer. Brother Roger
fostered a spirit of compassion – as he said – when compassion is lost,
everything is lost.
We
need to think about change, how we follow Christ’s way, and today’s gospel
reading, tells of transfiguration, and the Corinthians reading talks of light
shining out of darkness.
As
the chant says ‘In our darkness there is no darkness with you O Lord, the
deepest night is clear as the day’ We, made in the image of God, should reflect
God’s light (glory) in the world in which we live, living out ways of love,
compassion and reconciliation as exemplified by Brother Roger.
Rev
Frances
For more information on Taize go to http://www.taize.fr/en
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