Taize Worship Service this Sunday. The Music of the Taizé Community, France, is used in the beautiful meditation-style services for which this small ecumenical monastic order has become famous. Very short melodies (usually only a line or two long) are sung in repetition like musical mantras, supported by instruments and sometimes by a cantor singing lines of prayer into and through the melody. The music is carried by everyone in the congregation who are free to remain silent and listen, sing the melody – or most beautifully – add their own harmonies and variations as the meditation unfolds.
This year during Lent, Union Church services incorporated Taizé elements: a Kyrie, a doxology, and additional elements such as Psalm responses. This service will use several of the pieces we sang during Lent. Please join us for this special, yet familiar, experience of worship in song!
Pastors Kent and Rachel and Music Director Gabe Evans hope that the peace and strength of this musical worship greatly enhanced our Lenten devotions and that it will carry us into the joyous season of Easter!
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