Advent Taizé Prayer
Holy Wisdom Monastery 4200 County Road M, Middleton, WI, United StatesJoin us for contemplative, Taizé style prayer incorporating song, silence, meditation and spiritual readings in the monastery oratory.
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Join us for contemplative, Taizé style prayer incorporating song, silence, meditation and spiritual readings in the monastery oratory.
Join us for contemplative, Taizé style prayer incorporating song, silence, meditation and spiritual readings in the monastery oratory.
This Advent season will be like no other with quarantine restrictions; altered holiday celebrations; inability to be with loved ones; and continued economic and political turmoil. How does the Rule of Benedict help us to find hope, peace and even joy during these times? Join us for a virtual retreat, including a livestreamed concert of Advent hymns and carols and a Taizé service; workshops on Waiting, Hope and Praying with Mandalas plus opportunities for integration or lectio divina via Zoom; and a Zoom social hour. This retreat is open to oblates and the public. Retreat leaders Concert: Sherri Hansen & ...
In Advent we anticipate – with hope, ache and longing – some refreshed or renewed experience of divine presence in our hearts, in our lives. It is a time when we return to scripture’s birth stories of Jesus because they have a 'thin place' quality to them. We return to the beginning when the promise of divine presence seems strongest, brightest, purest. We start at the beginning so that we might also begin again. This season we turn to the beginning verses of John's Gospel – a 'birth narrative' of a very different sort. We find neither Mary nor Joseph, ...