Wednesday, February 28, 7 pm at St. Thomas the Apostle
Join together this Lenten season with the Augustana and St. Thomas communities for a Taize service of prayer, song and contemplation. 
Taize is a small village in Burgundy, France and is home to a monastic community devoted to prayer and reconciliation. The community is made up of brothers from all the continents and major denominations who gather together three times a day, seven days a week, to pray. 
The characteristic of Taizé worship that is most prevalent is the use of a kind of repetitive prayer set to simple musical lines. Repetition is not a new phenomenon nor unique to Taizé. The use of repetitive prayers is a long attested reality in the history of Christian spirituality and liturgy (for example, in the Jesus Prayer and the Rosary). What is unique to the prayer of Taizé is the adaptation of the repetitive form to simple musical lines and core biblical texts that can be sung by a whole assembly of various nationalities, languages, and denominations.
If you would like to practice singing this service or accompanying it with instruments, join the St. Thomas choir a week before, on Wednesday, February 21st, at 7 pm, also at St. Thomas. 
Augustana Lutheran Church of Hyde Park 
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