The Mystery of Taize
I have been, for many years, intrigued by the community at Taize. Their life of ecumenical prayer is a beautiful reality. I am drawn to the simplicity of ideas in the community and would like to share them here.
Each year, thousands of young people make a pilgrimage to Taize. Like those of us drawn to Abbeys and people like Brother Dunstan, they are drawn to Taize’s sense of ….
Mystery,
Peace,
Depth.
Oliver Clement talks of a film director who says that “The challenge of our age is to let humanity remain a question; to avoid thinking that everything is straightforward, that everything is explainable.” It is very important that there should be people and places and actions which ask the question of the mystery of life.
I wonder: What speaks mystery in into our lives these days? For me it’s often in movies–like Garden State or Away We Go. These movies touch on the quest in people for home, and security–but that these things aren’t enough. There is more…and what is that?
But Brother Oliver says “It is not enough just to ask… because to ask it is to discover that an essential characteristic of humanity is incompleteness….” How do we accept that incompleteness?