I vividly remember the time three friends and I drove from Paris to Taizé to visit the Taizé Community, the ecumenical Centre that magically drew thousands of youth from all over the world. What we saw there was just unbelievable. The youth, considered to be uninterested in anything religious, joined the monks of Taizé, called Brothers, to pray in silence and sing and attend talks.
The visionary who founded the Taizé Community was Brother Roger, originally Roger Schütz, from Switzerland. Born on 12 May 1915, he was the youngest son of a Swiss Lutheran pastor and a French Protestant mother. He felt drawn both to a monastic way of life, as well as serving the suffering.
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Fr M A Joe Antony SJ
