The Taiz\u00e9 community is ecumenically oriented and has regular prayer times in the morning, at noon and in the evening, during which the famous Taiz\u00e9 songs, Bible reading, shared silence and participation in communion play a central role. The 60 or so brothers invite young people from all over the world to participate in their life for a week. In fact, about a thousand Portuguese young people were in Taiz\u00e9 at the same time as our delegation.<\/p><\/p>\n\n
The shared reading from the book of Joel (2:12-18) led the delegation to a conversation with the prior of the community, Brother Matthew, and Brothers Richard and Andreas. The text struck the readers precisely in reference to Europe, where it says: \u2018Tear your hearts and not your garments\u2019. The appeal is addressed to all generations, that they approach God with sincere devotion and ask for his mercy. On this the group agreed. Being in contact with so many young people, the brothers of Taiz\u00e9 also have an insight into their fears, for which they feel an urgent need to be accompanied. Taiz\u00e9 is therefore undoubtedly a spiritual place for young people, where they find a listening ear and understanding.<\/p><\/p>\n\n
How can a bridge now be built between Taiz\u00e9 and TfE<\/em>? The trio recognised that the Brothers’ charism and their contribution to the whole, and consequently also to Europe, lies in their closeness to young people, their fidelity to their prayers and their hospitality. Now the next steps must be identified together, starting with the friendship that has become deeper. And who knows? Perhaps in the future there will be a \u2018Together for Europe\u2019 meeting of young people in Taiz\u00e9? We, together with the brothers, can certainly imagine it.<\/p><\/p>\n\n Sister Nicole, Father Raffael and Matthias returned home happy and full of joy. \u2018Besides the meeting with the Taiz\u00e9 brothers, these days brought us closer to each other – we are among the youngest in our Steering Committee. We need such experiences. The trips we make together and the meetings with the different Movements we visit make us realise: \u2018Together in Europe<\/em> is alive and we go on together!\u2019<\/p><\/p>\n\n Beatriz Lauenroth<\/em><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A visit among friends. This was the wish of three members of the International Steering Committee of Together for Europe (TfE) when they undertook the trip at the beginning of March. Sister Nicole Grochowina (Christusbruderschaft Selbitz), Father Raffael Rieger (Sch\u00f6nstatt Movement) and Matthias B\u00fchlmann (Vineyard) spent three days in France with the Brothers of Taiz\u00e9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":351269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2435,3136],"tags":[748,4835,751,4817],"class_list":["post-351274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-experiences-reflections-and-interviews","category-news-en","tag-ensemble-pour-leurope","tag-taize","tag-together-for-europe","tag-working-together-for-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.together4europe.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.together4europe.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.together4europe.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.together4europe.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.together4europe.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351274"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.together4europe.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":351282,"href":"https:\/\/www.together4europe.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351274\/revisions\/351282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.together4europe.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.together4europe.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.together4europe.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.together4europe.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Impressions<\/strong><\/h4><\/p>\n\n