Taizé services originated in the monastic community in Taizé, France in the 1940s. At BUF, we have created our own UU-style Taizé service that draws from one of our sources — direct experience of that transcending mystery and wonder.
Taizé services originated in the monastic community in Taizé, France in the 1940s. This is a quiet service held on the first Monday of each month. Our UU adaptation of the Taizé tradition includes contemplative chants, poetry, meditation, and candle lighting. This month’s theme: The Phases of the Moon.
Taizé services originated in the monastic community in Taizé, France in the 1940s. At BUF, we have created our own UU-style Taizé service that draws from one of our sources — direct experience of that transcending mystery and wonder.
What might we learn from the plant and animal creatures who live alongside us? And what can we learn from those who have been paying deep attention to those lessons and applying them? This will be a restful, hopeful service of poems, songs, and reflections.
In Octavia Butler’s prescient sci-fi novels, The Parable of the Sower and The Parable of the Talents, she creates a religion that believes “God is Change.” Whatever our beliefs about God, we certainly know that change is as hard as it is inevitable. What can we learn together about how to navigate change with grace?
Taizé services originated in the monastic community in Taizé, France in the 1940s. At BUF, we have created our own UU-style Taizé service that draws from one of our sources — direct experience of that transcending mystery and wonder.
Stories explain a lot. If we’re lucky, we might live a story or come across a story that doesn’t necessarily resolve conundrums and anguishes, but somehow shifts us to a new place, a new understanding and sometimes even a new acceptance.
Taizé services originated in the monastic community in Taizé, France in the 1940s. At BUF, we have created our own UU-style Taizé service that draws from one of our sources — direct experience of that transcending mystery and wonder.
In person in the sanctuary, AND on Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/738363620; Passcode: BUF Taizé services originated in the monastic community in Taizé, France in the 1940s. At BUF, we have created our own UU-style Taizé service that draws from one of our sources — direct experience of that transcending mystery and wonder.
