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Brother Roger, founder of the Taizé Community, shown at prayer in 2003. The Taizé Community was founded by Brother Roger (Roger Schütz) in 1940. [3] He pondered what it really meant to live a life according to the Scriptures and began a quest for a different expression of the Christian life.
Brother Roger was stabbed to death during the evening prayer service in Taizé on August 16, 2005, by a young Romanian woman named Luminița Ruxandra Solcan who was later deemed mentally ill [5] and was stabbed as well in 2011. [6] He was stabbed several times and, though one of the brothers carried him from the church, he died shortly afterward.
The song is often sung in the Church of Reconciliation of the Communauté de Taizé "Meine Hoffnung und meine Freude" (lit: My hope and my joy) is a 1988 hymn of the Communauté de Taizé.
Throughout Advent it occurs daily as the versicle and response after the hymn at Vespers. [1] The text is used in the extraordinary form of the Roman Rite: [1] as the Introit for the Fourth Sunday in Advent, for Wednesday in Ember Week, for the feast of the Expectation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and for votive Masses of the Blessed Virgin ...
The text forms a part of the daily office in the Catholic Vespers service, the Lutheran Vespers service, and the Anglican services of Evening Prayer, according to both the Book of Common Prayer and Common Worship. In the Book of Common Prayer Evening Prayer service, it is usually paired with the Nunc dimittis.
The BBC has, since 1926, broadcast a weekly service of Choral Evensong. It is broadcast (usually live) on BBC Radio 3 on Wednesdays at 15:30 and often repeated on the following Sunday. Between February 2007 and September 2008, the service was broadcast on Sunday only. The service comes live from an English cathedral or collegiate institution.
For example, an English translation of "The Great O Antiphons" appears with the hymn O Come, O Come, Emmanuel in the Lutheran Service Book. In the Book of Common Worship published by the Presbyterian Church (USA) , the antiphons can be read as a praise litany at Morning or Evening Prayer.
Kiddush levana, also known as Birkat halevana, [a] is a Jewish ritual and prayer service, generally observed on the first or second Saturday night of each Hebrew month.The service includes a blessing to God for the appearance of the new moon and further readings depending on custom.