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The Rule of Taizé - Brother Roger
Contents
Preface
Introduction
Prayer
Meals
The council
Harmony
Throughout your day, let the Word of God breathe life into work and rest
Maintain inner silence in all things so as to dwell in Christ
Be filled with the spirit of the beatitudes: joy, simplicity, mercy
Joy
Simplicity
Mercy
Celibacy
Community of possessions
The prior, servant of communion
Brothers on mission
New brothers
Receiving guests
Conclusion
Exhortation read at profession
The commitments made at profession
Notes
Contents
Preface
Préambule
La prière
Le repas
Le conseil
L’harmonie
Que dans ta journée labeur et repos soient vivifiés par la Parole de Dieu
Maintiens en tout le silence intérieur pour demeurer en Christ
Pénètre-toi de l’esprit des béatitudes: joie, simplicité, miséricorde
Joie
Simplicité
Miséricorde
Célibat
Communauté de biens
Le prieur, serviteur de communion
Les frères en mission
Les nouveaux frères
L’accueil
Conclusion
Exhortation lue à la profession
Engagements pris à la profession
Notes
Preface
Roger Schutz was born in 1915 in Provence, a small village in French-speaking Switzerland. As a 16-year-old he developed tuberculosis and was seriously ill for several years. He began studying theology at Lausanne when he was 21.
Four years later, in 1940, feeling Switzerland too comfortable a place to be during the war, he went to live alone in eastern France. In the small village of Taizé, where he settled, he began a life of prayer while sheltering refugees, including Jewish fugitives.
Over the next years, others who shared his vision joined him, culminating in the lifelong commitment of the first seven brothers at Easter 1949 to constitute the ecumenical and monastic Taizé Community.
In the solitude of a long retreat, during the winter of 1952–3, Brother Roger wrote the Rule of Taizé to underpin their vocation to live out a ‘parable of community’. It is a life which both waits on God in prayer and is turned towards the needs of the world; it contains a passion for the visible unity of Christians.
Nowadays the Taizé Community comprises around 100 brothers, Catholics and of different Protestant backgrounds, from 30 different countries. Most of them live at Taizé itself, while some live in small groups in poor neighbourhoods in Asia, Africa and South America.
In the 1960s young adults began visiting in large numbers, and tens of thousands now come to Taizé each year to meet and pray with the community. Usually the young people stay for one week, but some prolong their stay for a period of discernment, offering their time as volunteers in the youth meetings which have grown up around the permanent community.
After Brother Roger’s death in 2005, the community republished La Règle de Taizé incorporating the small adjustments which he himself had wished. This copy of The Rule is a fresh translation of that edition.
Introduction
Brother, if you submit to