Taizé - Pielgrzymka Zaufania przez Ziemię

The Taizé Pilgrimage of Trust on Earth

Summary: Taize is a tiny village in central France. The settlement hosts the international ecumenical community established by Brother Roger in 1940. Currently, the community has more than a hundred friars, Catholic and Protestant, representing more than 25 nationalities. The brothers are committed to celibacy, life of charity and simplicity. The community lives by its own work accepting no donations or personal inheritance. Some of the brothers live and work at Taizé while others help the needy in the poorest corners of Africa, Asia and South America. The essence of the community's activity is deepening the communion with God through individual prayer, common singing and sowing the seed of peace, trust and hope among young people. The brothers conduct weeks of spiritual exercises to help discover the meaning of life.
Since 1950s, young people have been flocking to Taizé from all countries of Europe and the world to exchange thoughts and views, to pray and sing together and to discover answers to the question: "What to live for?" One can spend the whole week in silence to find inner peace and hope through personal meditation. Others meet in topical groups and discuss various issues, such as art, poetry, music, world peace, voluntary work, international relations, culture and tradition of other countries, etc. Taizé brothers are available for private meetings with the participants to talk about their personal problems and dilemmas of life.
The brothers also organise European Youth Meetings. Beginning in 1978, every year around New Year's time, thousands of young people gather in a selected large European city to jointly pray for peace, reconciliation and forgiveness. Last year, some forty thousand youth met in Lisbon on 28 December and stayed there until the New Year's Day.

Peregrinus Cracoviensis, 2005, z.16, s. 159-165.

Instytut Geografii i Gospodarki Przestrzennej UJ

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