Every year, thousands of pilgrims flock to an ecumenical monastery in Burgundy, France, to pray with the Taizé monks, a community with roots in World War II and known for its musical prayers and its ...

For its 20th anniversary last week, the little monastery in the village of Taizé, just north of the medieval monachal center of Cluny, held a major celebration. All 45 of the brothers were on hand for ...

With their particular blend of devotion immersed in the Bible, prayer, chanting and silence, the Taizé monks are something like spirituality’s version of rock stars, drawing 100,000 young people each ...

Chico New Thought Center will hold a Thanksgiving Sunday Taize service, led by Rev. Kathy Fernandes, at 10 a.m. During WW II, the brothers of a monastery in Taize, France, wanted to bring people ...

DEEP quiet was what first drew Roger Schutz to Taizé. The young Swiss theology student, climbing off his bicycle one summer day in 1940 after riding a strenuous 70 miles north from Geneva, found ...

Taizé is a unique little village based in Burgundy, eastern France. It houses a monastery with more than 100 Catholic and Protestant Brothers from over 30 different countries. And the monks are famous ...

PARIS — It was vespers in the Church of Reconciliation and a choir of monks was intoning the first notes of evensong amid a sea of worshippers. In the peace and solemnity of prayer, few people in the ...

CARBONDALE — Kathryn Jeffrey has been a longtime fan of Taizé music, the kind of music that was developed at an ecumenical monastery in a city in France, from which it derives its name. Then she ...