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Annual message Brother Alois 2022: Becoming Creators of Unity Helping unity to grow, creating bonds between people: this is one of the greatest challenges of our time. The present day is characterized by contradictory developments. On the one hand, humanity is becoming more and more aware howinterconnected and linked it is to the whole of creation. The pandemic has madeus realize once again that we are one human family; we undergo certainhardships all (...) 25 December 2021 Brother Alois 2021: Hoping in Season and out of Season A message for 2021Booklet as PDF A message for 2021 Humanity is able to move forward because of the multitudes of women and men who give themselves without counting the cost, even in times of upheaval and uncertainty. Over these last few months, many young people have shared with us their worries about the future: what hope can give us direction; what things can we trust and rely on when (...) 21 December 2020 Brother Alois 2020: Always on the Move, Never Uprooted “Proposals 2020”PDF format: In September, we held a new stage of our “pilgrimage of trust on earth” in the city of Cape Town. South Africa is a great and beautiful country; 25 years ago, it showed the world the power of the protest against apartheid and of a non-violent transition, even though today the country is still scarred by the deep divisions between ethnic groups. In this context, the (...) 26 December 2019 Brother Alois 2019: Let us not forget hospitality! Download in pdf format Do not forget to show hospitality, for by so doing some people have welcomed angels without knowing it. (Hebrews 13:2) The pilgrimage of trust, an uninterrupted succession of meetings of young adults which began in Taizé several decades ago, continues today on all the continents. In each of these gatherings, one of the most memorable experiences is hospitality, both for (...) Brother Alois 2018: Inexhaustible Joy A young woman who was very ill said to me last year, “I love life.” I remain deeply moved by the inner joy that filled her, in spite of the narrow limits imposed by her illness. I was touched not only by her words, but by the beautiful expression on her face. And what can we say about the joy of children? Recently I saw some children in Africa whose presence, even in refugee camps where so many (...) 26 December 2017 Brother Alois 2017: A Call to Church Leaders for 2017 On the road together! In 2017, the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation offers an opportunity to advance towards unity and to go beyond mere cordiality. There will always be differences between the Churches, as well as within each Church. These differences will remain subjects for frank dialogue; they can be an enrichment. But, in all the Churches, over time denominational identity (...) 10 January 2017 Brother Alois 2017: Towards the Unity of the European Continent As migrants arrive, let us go beyond fear! The meeting in Riga organized by the Taizé Community at the end of December 2016 brought together young adults from across Europe.(1) Coming both from member-countries of the European Union and countries that do not belong to it, they had an experience of community capable of uniting people from the whole continent. This Nordic gathering also enabled (...) 10 January 2017 Brother Alois 2017: Together, Opening Paths of Hope At the beginning of September 2016, a stage in the pilgrimage of trust brought together 7500 young Africans in Cotonou, Benin. (1) The theme of this gathering will continue to inspire us throughout the year 2017: together—not alone, but supported by one another—we can open paths of hope—in ourselves, around us and for the human family. One of the questions asked at Cotonou was this: “To nourish (...) 26 December 2016 Brother Alois 2016: The Courage of Mercy Throughout the year 2015, at Taizé, we looked for ways to get involved in new solidarities; these are so urgent today. Across the earth, new forms of distress — migratory, ecological and social — are a challenge for believers of different religions and for non-believers alike. Armed violence is wreaking havoc in the name of inhuman ideologies. While remaining clear-headed, we shall continue our (...) 26 December 2015 Taizé 2015 God of compassion, we thank you for Brother Roger’s life. In a world often torn apart by violence, he wanted to create a community that was a parable of communion. We praise you for the witness he gave to the Risen Christ and for his faithfulness until death. Send your Holy Spirit upon us so that we too may be witnesses to reconciliation in our daily lives. Make us creators of unity among (...) 7 August 2015 Brother Alois 2015: Four proposals in order to be “salt of the earth”. The letter “Towards a New Solidarity” (2012-2015) continues to express the essentials of the common journey that is leading us to August 16, 2015, the tenth anniversary of Brother Roger’s entrance into the life of eternity (see the program for the year 2015 below). Here are four proposals in order to be “salt of the earth”. First proposal: Sharing with those around us a zest for life “You are the (...) 26 December 2014 Brother Alois 2014: Four Proposals for “seeking visible communion among all who love Christ” The Letter “Towards a New Solidarity”, continues to be the basis of the common journey that is leading us by stages to 2015. It commits us for the coming year to “seeking visible communion among all who love Christ.” Here are four proposals to join in this search. Christ extended his friendship to all, without rejecting anyone. Those who love Christ all across the earth form, in his steps, a large community of friendship. This is called communion. For this reason, they have a contribution to (...) 26 December 2013 Brother Alois 2013: Four Proposals to Uncover the Wellsprings of Trust in God The Letter published last year in Berlin, “Towards a New Solidarity”, will continue to support our searching during the coming three years. We are devoting the year 2013 to finding ways of “uncovering the wellsprings of trust in God.” The “Year of Faith” launched by Pope Benedict XVI points us in this direction. Here are four proposals to help us go further with our searching. First Proposal - Talk together about our faith journey What is the meaning of our lives? How do we deal with suffering and (...) 18 February 2013 Brother Alois 2012-2015: Towards a New Solidarity Letter 2012-2015 Click the image to download or view 26 December 2011 For an open Europe, a land of solidarity Since the young adult meeting is taking place in Brussels, headquarters of numerous European institutions, it seemed important to address the following message to the European Union. On 15 December, Brother Alois delivered the message personally to Mr José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission, and he sent it to the heads of state and government of the 27 countries of the Union. Brother Alois 2009: Letter from Kenya From the 26th to the 30th of November 2008, 7000 young people from different regions of Kenya as well as from other African countries and other continents met together in Nairobi. It was the second international meeting organized in Africa by the Taizé Community, after one in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1995. This stage in the “pilgrimage of trust on earth” was hosted by more than eighty parishes of the different Churches of Nairobi. Its aim was to help create more fraternal relationships, (...) 15 December 2008 Brother Alois: Letter to those who want to follow Christ In the Gospel we hear Jesus call, “Follow me!” Can we respond to him by a lifelong commitment? In all of us there is the desire for future happiness. But we can have the impression that we are conditioned by so many limits that at times we fall prey to discouragement. And yet God is present: “The Kingdom of God is at hand!” We become aware of God’s presence when we face the situations of our life just as they are, in order to create on the basis of what is. No one would want to get (...) 7 December 2007 Brother Alois: A call for the reconciliation of Christians When he left Geneva in 1940 to found the Taizé Community, Brother Roger was motivated by this intuition: for Christians to be ferments of peace in humanity, they cannot put off reconciliation among themselves until later. Many years afterwards, this is how he described his personal journey: “Marked by the witness of my grandmother’s life, following her I found my own Christian identity by reconciling within myself the faith of my origins with the Mystery of the Catholic faith, without (...) 7 December 2007 Brother Alois 2008: Letter from Cochabamba Prepared for months with the parishes and families of the city and its surroundings, a Latin American young adult meeting was held in Cochabamba, Bolivia, from October 10-14, 2007. It brought together 7000 participants from the different regions of Bolivia, from all the countries of Latin America and from several European countries. This “Letter from Cochabamba” for the year 2008 was first distributed during the European meeting in Geneva at the end of December 2007. Reconciliation, a fire (...) 7 December 2007 Brother Alois 2007: Letter from Kolkata Thirty years ago, Brother Roger spent some time in Kolkata (Calcutta) with brothers and young people from different continents, living in a poor district and taking part in Mother Teresa’s work with abandoned children and the dying. He brought back the Letter to the People of God, made public during a young adult meeting at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. Later on, he wrote several messages and three books with Mother Teresa. This presence in 1976 was the seed of a lasting relationship of (...) 10 December 2006 2006: Brother Roger’s unfinished letter The afternoon of the day he died, August 16th, Brother Roger called one of the brothers and said to him, “Note down these words carefully!” There was a long silence while he attempted to formulate his thinking. Then he began, “To the extent that our community creates possibilities in the human family to widen…” And he stopped there, too exhausted to finish his phrase. These words reflect the passion that inspired him, even in his old age. What did he mean by “widen”? He probably wanted to say: do (...) 12 December 2005 Brother Roger 2005: A future of peace This letter, written by Brother Roger of Taizé and translated into 55 different languages (including 24 from Asia), was made public during the young adult European meeting in Lisbon. It will be used for reflection throughout the year 2005 during the weekly meetings in Taizé as well as those held elsewhere, in Europe or on other continents.“God has plans for a future of peace for you, not of misfortune; God wants to give you a future and a hope.” [11] Today, a great many people are longing for a (...) 13 December 2004
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26. prosinca 2017 Prošlog ljeta jedna mi je teško bolesna djevojka rekla: »Volim život.« Dirnula me svojom unutarnjom radošću koja ju je ispunjavala unatoč svim ograničenjima njezine bolesti. Nisu me se dojmile samo njezine riječi, nego i njezino lice koje je zračilo radošću. Posebnu sam radost nedavno doživio među djecom u Africi. Čak i u izbjegličkim kampovima, gdje ima toliko dramatičnih životnih priča, dječja prisutnost (...) 26. prosinca 2016 Početkom rujna 2016. jedna od postaja Hodočašća povjerenja okupila je 7500 mladih Afrikanaca u Cotonou, u Beninu (1). Tema ovog susreta nastavit će nas nadahnjivati tijekom 2017. godine: zajedno – ne sami, nego uz podršku jednih drugima – možemo otvarati putove nade – u sebi, oko nas i za ljudsku obitelj. Jedno od pitanja postavljenih u Cotonou bilo je ovo: »Da bismo hranili našu nadu, kako možemo napustiti pasivni stav u kojemu čekamo da promjena dođe izvana? Kako se možemo osobno angažirati?« Hitno je da ljudi s drugih kontinenata poslušaju silne (...) 30. prosinca 2016 Krenimo zajedno na put! U 2017. godini, 500. obljetnica Reformacije nudi priliku za napredovanje prema jedinstvu i nadilaženje puke srdačnosti. Razlike između Crkava, kao i unutar svake Crkve, uvijek ce postojati. O tome se mora i dalje voditi iskren dijalog; one mogu i obogaćivati. No, u svim je Crkvama, s vremenom, denominacijski identitet došao u prvi plan: ljudi se definiraju kao katolici, protestanti, ili pravoslavci. Nije li došlo vrijeme dati prednost našom kršćanskom identitetu koji imamo po krštenju? Iz toga slijedi pitanje: ne bi li Crkve (...) 30. prosinca 2016 Ususret migrantima, ne dopustimo da nas obuzme strah! Na susretu u Rigi u organizaciji Taizéa na kraju prosinca 2016. okupili su se mladi iz cijele Europe, daleko šire od Europske Unije. (1) To iskustvo pokazalo je da je zajednica sposobna ujediniti ljude s cijelog kontinenta. Ovaj je baltički susret omogućio mladima otkrivanje raznolikosti europskih naroda sa svojem vlastitom poviješću i tradicijom. Budućnost mira zahtijeva od Europljana da prošire svoju svjesnost i dopuste da solidarnost raste me u svim zemljama kontinenta. Povećavanje broja (...) 21. prosinca 2015 Tijekom 2015. godine u Taizéu smo tražili načine uključivanja u nove oblike solidarnosti; to je danas vrlo hitno. Diljem zemlje, novi oblici nevolja – migracijske, ekološke i socijalne – podjednak su izazov za vjernike različitih religija kao i nevjernike. Oružano nasilje čini strahovitu štetu u ime nehumanih ideologija. Bez gubitka lucidnosti, ali uz otpor strahu koji generira nesigurnost, naše (...) 7. kolovoza 2015 Bože suosjećanja, zahvaljujemo ti na životu brata Rogera. U svijetu tako često rastrzanom nasiljem želio je stvoriti zajednicu koja bi bila uzor drugim zajednicama svijeta. Zahvaljujemo ti na svjedočanstvu koje je dao Uskrslom Kristu i na vjernosti Kristu sve do svoje smrti. Pošalji svoga Duha Svetoga na nas, da i mi možemo biti svjedoci pomirenja u našim svakodnevnim životima. Učini nas tvorcima (...) 26. prosinca 2014 Pismo »Prema novoj solidarnosti« (2012. – 2015.) nastavlja izražavati bit zajedničkog putovanja koje nas vodi do 16. kolovoza 2015., desete obljetnice prelaska brata Rogera u vječni život (vidi program za 2015. u daljnjem tekstu). Ovdje su četiri prijedloga kako postati »sol zemlje«:Prvi prijedlog: Podijeliti s onima oko nas životni polet »Vi ste sol zemlje. Ali ako sol obljutavi, čime će se ona osoliti?« (Matej 5,13) Biti sol zemlje Božji je dar koji želimo primiti s radošću. Bivajući sol zemlje možemo prenositi životni polet. A kada uljepšamo život (...) 26. prosinca 2013 Pismo »Prema novoj solidarnosti« nastavlja biti osnovom zajedničkog putovanja koje nas postupno vodi do 2015. godine. Ono nam daje zadatak da sljedeće godine »tražimo vidljivo zajedništvo svih koji ljube Krista«. Ovdje su četiri prijedloga da biste se priključili tome traganju.Krist je svoje prijateljstvo dao svima, ne odbijajući nikoga. Oni koji ljube Krista širom cijelog svijeta čine, koračajući njegovim stopama, veliku zajednicu prijateljstva. Nju nazivamo zajedništvom. Iz tog razloga, oni daju doprinos liječenju rana čovječanstva: ne želeći se (...) 22. siječnja 2013 Pismo »Prema novoj solidarnosti«, objavljeno prošle godine u Berlinu, nastavit će podupirati naše traganje tijekom iduće tri godine. Posvetit ćemo 2013. godinu traganju za načinima kako »otkriti izvore povjerenja u Boga«. »Godina vjere« koju je proglasio papa Benedikt XVI. potiče nas na to. Ovdje slijede četiri prijedloga koji će nam pomoći da napredujemo o toj potrazi.Prvi prijedlog - Razgovarati s drugima o našem putu vjere Što je smisao našega života? Kako se nositi s patnjom i smrću? Što nam daje radost života? To su pitanja na koja su svaka generacija (...) 15. prosinca 2008 Od 26. do 30.studenoga 2008., 7000 mladih iz različitih područja Kenije, kao i iz drugih afričkih zemalja te s drugih kontinenata okupilo se u Nairobiju. Bio je to - nakon Johannesburga (Južna Afrika) 1995. godine - drugi međunarodni susret mladih koji je Zajednica iz Taizéa pripremala u Africi. Domaćin ove postaje Hodočašća povjerenja na Zemlji bilo je 80 župa različitih Crkava u Nairobiju. Cilj susreta bio je pridonijeti stvaranju bratskijih odnosa i nadilaženju pogrešnih stavova prema drugima, utemeljenih na nedostatku kontakata među narodima i (...) Uoči 31. Europskog susreta mladih u Bruxellesu, u gradu u kojem se nalaze glavne europske institucije, iskoristili smo priliku uputiti slijedeću poruku Europskoj Uniji. Brat Alois ju je osobno donio 15. prosinca Joséu Manuelu Barrosu, predsjedniku Komisije, i poslao je svim predsjednicima i premijerima Europe. José Manuel Barroso se sa svoje strane obratio mladima u osobnoj poruci dobrodošlice. 11. prosinca 2007 Nakon višemjesečnoga pripremanja sa župama i obiteljima grada i okolice, latinoamerički susret mladih održan je u Cochabambi, Bolivija, od 10. do 14. listopada 2007. Okupilo se 7000 sudionika iz različitih područja Bolivije, iz svih zemalja Latinske Amerike te iz više europskih zemalja. Ovo Pismo iz Cochabambe za 2008. godinu objavljeno je u vrijeme Europskog susreta u Ženevi potkraj prosinca 2007. Vatra pomirenja S mladima iz svih zemalja Latinske Amerike okupljenima u Boliviji, zapitali smo se: koje putove nade možemo danas otvoriti? Bolivijski (...) 11. prosinca 2007 U Evanđelju čujemo Isusov poziv: «Slijedi me!» Možemo li mu odgovoriti predajući se za cijeli život? U svima nama postoji želja za sretnom budućnošću. No, možemo imati dojam da smo uvjetovani mnogim ograničenjima, pa nas ponekad vreba obeshrabrenost. A ipak, Bog je prisutan: «Blizu je kraljevstvo Božje» (Marko 1,15). Njegovu prisutnost naziremo kada prihvatimo naše životne okolnosti, onakve kakve jesu, i postanemo stvaraocima počevši od njih. Nitko se ne bi želio izgubiti u snovima o idealnom životu. Prihvatimo ono što jesmo kao i ono što nismo. Potraga za (...) 11. prosinca 2007 Kad je 1940. godine napustio Ženevu kako bi osnovao Zajednicu u Taizéu, brat Roger je bio vođen svojom intuicijom da kršćani ne mogu odgađati pomirenje među sobom, ako žele biti kvasac mira među ljudima. Mnogo godina kasnije, ovako je opisao svoj osobni put: «Obilježen svjedočanstvom života svoje bake, slijedeći je, otkrio sam svoj vlastiti kršćanski identitet, pomirivši u sebi vjeru svojih korijena s Otajstvom katoličke vjere, bez prekida zajedništva i s kim.» Ovaj je put, kojeg je otvorio brat Roger, osjetljiv, zahtjevan, i nismo ga još do kraja (...) 11. prosinca 2006 Prije trideset godina brat Roger je s braćom i mladima s različitih kontinenata boravio u Kalkuti živeći u siromašnoj četvrti i pomažući Majci Terezi u radu s napuštenom djecom i umirućima. Otamo se vratio s Pismom Božjem narodu, koje je bilo objavljeno tijekom susreta mladih u crkvi Notre Dame u Parizu. Kasnije je zajedno s Majkom Terezom napisao još nekoliko poruka i tri knjige. Taj je boravak 1976. godine bio sjeme dugotrajne povezanosti naše zajednice s kršćanima u Indiji, koja se očitovala kroz posjete širom zemlje, dva međukontinentalna susreta u (...) 23. prosinca 2005 Na dan svoje smrti, 16. kolovoza, brat Roger je tijekom poslijepodneva pozvao jednog od braće i rekao mu: «Dobro zabilježi ove riječi!» Dugo je šutio nastojeći oblikovati misao. Zatim je nastavio: «U mjeri u kojoj naša zajednica u ljudskoj obitelji stvara mogućnosti za širenje...» Tu se zaustavio, umor ga je spriječio da nastavi rečenicu. U tim se riječima odražava čežnja koja je u njemu obitavala, i u njegovim kasnim godinama. Što je mislio sa «širenjem»? Vjerojatno je htio reći: činiti sve što je moguće kako bi svima postala zamjetnijom ljubav koju Bog gaji (...) Ovo je Pismo, što ga je napisao Brat Roger iz Taizéa, prevedeno na 55 različitih jezika (od toga 24 azijska) i objavljeno tijekom Europskog susreta mladih u Lisabonu. Iznova će se čitati i razmatrati tijekom 2005. godine tjedan za tjednom za susreta mladih u Taizéu, u Europi ili na drugim kontinentima.«Bog za vas pripravlja budućnost mira, a ne nesreće; Bog vam želi dati budućnosti i nadu [9].» Mnoštvo ljudi danas teže budućnosti mira, čovječanstvu oslobođenom prijetnjama nasilja. Ako su neki obuzeti nespokojem zbog budućnosti koji ih koči, ima širom (...)