Greetings in ordinary time! See below for upcoming Taizé prayers around the state.

Summer is a popular time for young adults to pilgrimage to Taizé for retreat. Young people can spend the summer volunteering and welcoming the thousands of other young people who come and stay for a week of retreat. One of the special summer programs is a week of friendship between Muslims and Christians (see photo). You can read more about this summer’s Week of Friendship here.

You can tune into an audio livestream of prayer from the daily prayer at the Taize Community every day at 2:30pm at this link on their website. The Saturday evening prayer is also visually shared live on the Taizé YouTube channel. You can watch a replay at any time. It gives a beautiful feel of the prayer on the hill at Taizé. In this time of world divisions, it brings hope to join with others as one.

Upcoming prayers around the state:

July 15, August 18. Third Mondays, 8:00  p.m., Cathedral of Saint Philip, 2744 Peachtree Road, Atlanta, GA.https://www.stphilipscathedral.org. There is a monthly labyrinth walk from 7:00-8:00 before the prayer. An introduction to how to walk the labyrinth is at 6:30.

July 22, August 26. Fourth Tuesdays, 7:00 p.m., Mount Vernon Presbyterian Church, 471 Mt. Vernon Highway NE, Sandy Springs, GA 30328. Labyrinth available during prayer. Special service on Ash Wednesday – check for times.

July 2, August 6. First Wednesdays, 6:30 p.m., St. John Lutheran Church, Griffin. 1689 Martin Luther King Jr Pkwy, Griffin, GA 30224. (Contact Larry Boudon, larryboudon@gmail.com)

Periodic prayers (on hiatus for summer) at St. Thomas More Catholic Church, 636 W. Ponce de Leon Ave. Decatur, GA 30030. STM has paused quarterly prayers, but we hope to have them two or three times per year. Definitely Advent and Lent. Stay tuned.

Weekly on Tuesdays, 7:00 p.m. On Zoom, Columbia Presbyterian Church. Zoom link: https://cpcdecatur.com/online-worship-links. Recorded music.

Weekly on Wednesdays, 5:30 – 6:00 p.m., Vineville United Methodist Church, 2045 Vineville Avenue, Macon. https://vinevillemethodist.com/taize/ Communion service.

See also the Taizé Atlanta Facebook page. Apologies for gaps in communication!

Blessings all,

Lisa