Br. Roger of Taize, from his Journal August 20, 1970
Saturday, August 20, 2011
Discovering Taize, August 20, 1940
Human beings only create by drawing on their poverty. I am well placed to assert that today: it is exactly thirty years ago that I discovered Taize.
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Br. Roger of Taize - Rest in Peace
When I was young, at a time when Europe was torn apart by so many conflicts, I kept on asking myself: Why all these confrontations? Why do so many people, even Christians, condemn one another out of hand? And I wondered: is there, on this earth, a way of reaching complete understanding of others? Then came a day - I can still remember the date, and I could describe the place: the subdued light of a late summer evening, darkness settling over the countryside -- a day when I made a decision. I said to myself, if this way does exist, begin with yourself and resolve to understand every person fully. That day, I was certain the vow I had made was for life. It involved nothing less than returning again and again, my whole life long, to this irrevocable decision: seek to understand all, rather than to be understood.
Br. Roger of Taize 1915-2005
On August 16, during a prayer service at Taize,
Brother Roger is fatally wounded by a mentally unbalanced assailant.
He dies at the age of ninety.
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