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Cross of San Damaino

TAIZE PRAYER

In following you, O Christ, we choose to love and not to harden our hearts, even when the incomprehensible happens.
As we remain in your presence with perseverance, day after day, and pray with simplicity of heart, you come and make us into a people who
are a leaven of confident trust by the way we live. And all that your Gospel calls us to, all that you ask of us, you give. -- Brother Roger
of Taize

From Brother Roger of Taize:

"From the depths of the human condition a secret aspiration rises up. Caught up in the anonymous rhythms of schedules and timetables, men
and women of today are implicitly thirsting for the one essential reality: an inner life, signs of the invisible.

"Nothing is more conducive to a communion with the living God than a meditative common prayer with, as its high point, singing that never ends
and that continues in the silence of one's heart when one is alone again. When the mystery of God becomes tangible through the simple beauty
of symbols, when it is not smothered by too many words, then a common prayer, far from exuding monotony and boredom, awakens us to
heaven's joy on earth.
"In a technological society there is a clear separation between prayer and work. When inner life and human solidarity appear to be in
competition with one another, as if people had to choose between them, that opposition tears apart the very depths of the soul.

"Prayer is a serene force at work within human beings, stirring them up, transforming them, never allowing them to close their eyes in the face of
evil, of wars, of all that threatens the weak of this world. From it we draw the energy to wage our struggles - to enable our loved ones to
survive, to transform the human condition, to make the earth a place fit to live in.

"All who walk in the footsteps of Christ, while being in the presence of God, remain alongside other people as well. They do not separate
prayer and commitment."

Prayer Around the Cross and Celebration of the Resurrection

Christians have always celebrated each week the central mystery of their faith: the Paschal Mystery, the dying and rising of Christ. This
mystery sheds light on our own lives as followers of Jesus, as we constantly "pass over" with Him from doubt and anxiety to confident trust,
through little deaths to new beginnings.

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