Talk:Taizé Community
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Just added news from Roger's death. Feel free to modify as details emerge in the following days.
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[edit] Taize Services in the US
Hi, I wrote the brief part about Taize services in the US. I hope that's ok. This page seems to be specifically about the Taize community more than the services, so I hope it's ok that I put the article here. Please write to me if it is inappropriate and suggest where (if anyplace) I should put this info. The reason I wanted to add the info is that I think many people would love the Taize service (as we know it here in the US), and so I thought it might be nice to have it on Wikipedia.
Sarum blue 14:54, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
Hello, Thank you. But I would prefer to remove it (which I just have). For three reasons really: 1) The community has always been very clear that it does not have a "movement" around it. And this content could be construed in the opposite way. 2) The character of the prayer you mention is just a specific example and cannot be generalised (as you do) to all prayers which use music from Taizé or call themselves "Taizé prayers". 3) A page which is about the Community of Taizé as such should, we feel, remain just about the community. (If we start with prayers in the USA, then why not the Philippines, Chile, UK, Korea, etc?)
By all means place the article somewhere else as a description of clearly identified prayers in which you're involved.
Wikimonk 09:33, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Other corrections
I have also made some other corrections. e.g. Priory -> Community (the community has never been known as a "Priory"). and "thousands of people visiting each week", I've changed to "with many thousand people visiting each year".
And removed the reference to Orthodox members of the Community (there are, as yet, none).
Wikimonk 09:33, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
I am just making a similar change to the one made earlier. Namely, removing the section "Influence Abroad". A page about the Taizé Community should remain focussed on the Community, not on groups which have a more or less tenuous connection with the Community. Perhaps you could create another page about "Prayers in the US using songs from Taize"? The paragraph suggests that the Community's main influence outside France is in North America. This is to give an incorrect impression.
I have put in a couple of photos of the evening prayer and of small group meetings at Taizé.
Wikimonk 21:58, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
I edited, or did somewhat of a revert, of the "many thousands each year" piece. Up to 6 thousand come in one week in summer, which scales the idea of "many thousand" to a more correct level, (many thousand could suggest 6,000 in a whole year. Thanks.
Wslack 00:01, 5 June 2006
I have just re-removed the whole section entitled "Taizé Services in the United States" for the same reasons which were given in February for making a similar change.
Wikimonk 20:51, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] POV
There are probably been some articles about it describing it from the outside. Everything here is from within the Community and I do not think any of the sources are 3rd party in the WP sense. Further, there should be some outside references that make less than positive comments & they need to be added. Everything here is from within the Community. I've put a POV tag on the article. Feel free to delete it after you've added the sources.DGG 17:08, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Possible expansions of the article
Gijs Kruitbosch (talk) 14:48, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] List of brothers
Would it be useful or interesting to list the brothers currently in the community? Or at least the more 'present' ones (ie. the ones that write books and do bible introductions, country meetings or create some of the music or pottery that is sold in the exposition). If not a list, mentioning them might still be worthwhile.
[edit] Sisters of St. Andrew
Why are the sisters not mentioned in the article? This would, I think, also make a great addition. While they are not in exactly the same community/order as the brothers, they play a large part in the overall community life (think El Abiodh, doing contact meetings for the girls, work in 'courier', as well as the choir practice and so on)
[edit] 'Mission' work
The page also lacks information about where across the globe Taizé brothers are helping to make a difference. I'm not sure if this should really be called 'mission' work, but it should be mentioned nonetheless. I don't know enough about this work to do it myself, but it would be interesting if someone else could help out.
[edit] History
Finally, the history of the community could be expanded upon, eg. giving details about the work fr. Roger did in the second world war, the move to Geneva and back, the first brothers arriving, his sister Geneviève (sp?) coming to help, etc. Again, I don't know so much about this myself, but if someone could help out that'd be great.
