UNBIBLICAL, ANTI-CHRISTIAN
"MANTRA LIKE CHANTS"
(CHANTS REPETITIFS)
NO SERMONS; A "GOSPEL"
WITHOUT SCRIPTURE
WITHOUT SCRIPTURE
AN EXPERIENCE FOLLOWED BY
MYSTICAL/CONTEMPLATIVE "SILENCE"
TAIZÉ RELEASES “MUSIC OF UNITY AND PEACE”
(Friday Church News Notes, March 13, 2015,www.wayoflife.org, fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143) - Taizé (pronounced teh-zay), an ecumenical monastic community on the cutting edge of contemplative prayer, has released a collection of chants entitled “Music of Unity and Peace.” Based in Burgundy, France, the community consists of about 100 monastics from Catholic and Protestant backgrounds, but its influence is vast. Hundreds of thousands of young people flock there from all over the world, and thousands of congregations in the U.S. and elsewhere hold Taizé contemplative prayer services and sing Taizé songs. Taizé is a major force for ecumenism. 
Founder Roger Schutz participated in the Second Vatican Council, and Pope John Paul II visited Taizé in October 1986. Since Schutz’s death (he was murdered by a deranged woman during a Taizé service), the community has been led by a Roman Catholic priest named Alois Loeser. The Taizé services are non-dogmatic and non-authoritative. There is no preaching. “It does not dictate what people must believe. No confessions of faith are required. No sermons are given. No emotional, evangelical-style salvation testimonials are expected.” Schutz described the philosophy of Taizé as, “Searching together--not wanting to become spiritual masters who impose; God never imposes. We want to love and listen, we want simplicity” (“Taizé,” Religion and Ethics Newsweekly, Sept. 20, 2002). This is blind mysticism loosed from the authority of Scripture. It is not building the true church of Christ; it is building the Mystery Babylon. Taizé’s non-doctrinal ecumenical Christianity is fueled by mystical practices. A “shadowy medieval” atmosphere is created with the use of such things as candles, icons, and incense (Vancouver Sun, April 14, 2000). The goal is to bring the “worshipper” into a meditative state, “to a place beyond words, a place of just being.” There is a lot of repetition, with “one-line Taizé harmonies repeated up to 15 times each.” Catholic contemplative prayer has swept through “evangelicalism” over the past 20 years, as we have documented in Evangelicals and Contemplative Prayer, available in print and as a free eBook from www.wayoflife.org.
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SEE OUR PREVIOUS POSTS ABOUT TAIZE HERE:
http://ratherexposethem.blogspot.com/2012/12/contemplative-prayer-taize-worship.html
http://ratherexposethem.blogspot.com/2014/02/nazarene-road-to-romefast-becoming.html
http://ratherexposethem.blogspot.com/2014/04/ex-catholic-priest-richard-bennett-key.html
GERMAN/ENGLISH SHORT VERSION:
GERMAN/ENGLISH LONG VERSION:
FRENCH/ENGLISH LONG VERSION:
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INTERVIEW IN ENGLISH WITH BROTHER GHISLAIN:
THE HISTORY OF TAIZE:
Published on Jun 11, 2014
Description: As France prepared to enter the Second World War, Roger Schutz-Marsauche, a 25 year old Swiss man, inspired by the Gospel ideals of reconciliation and fraternity sought to establish a community of men where kindness of heart and simplicity would be at the centre of everything. What started out as a small group of brothers living out the Gospel in the remote French village of Taizé has today blossomed into a vibrant ecumenical, monastic community where more than a 100 000 pilgrims gather each year. Join host Cheridan Sanders as she speaks with Brother Emile about this extraordinary community of faith.
