The Taize Service comes from the monastic community founded in France by
Brother Roger in 1940. Three times each day, everyone gathers for prayer centered 
on singing. The community wanted to unite people of all countries and decided that 
music would bring people together.

 The songs are sung again and again by the whole community. For centuries, a few 
words offered  up unceasingly have been a way of contemplation. Little by little, they
 build an inner unity with God. And when the words are sung, they reach the depths
 of our being even more. 

There are traditions in many spiritual paths of laying on of hands as a blessing and 
as a healing. Jesus touched and blessed the sick, as did the apostles. The action  was 
symbolic of spiritual blessings flowing from one person to another. 

Taize  Community website: www.taize.fr