Resurrection Evangelical Lutheran Church          

4315  Nottingham Way, Hamilton Square, New Jersey;  609.586.3355; ResurrectionLutheran@Yahoo.com 
Pastor: Rev. Charles A. Ferreri
    

Fall/Winter/Spring schedule begins on September 13th

Saturday, Celebrate Service with Holy Communion 5:30 PM     Sunday, Word & Sacrament 8:00 & 10:15 AM

Sunday School, 10:15 AM  
 

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Taize

Resurrection now offers a service of Taize prayer every Sunday at 7:30 PM.

It features a dark quiet sanctuary, lit only by a multitude of candles. The sanctuary becomes a truly peaceful place to reflect one-on-one with God

Please come out and experience this multi-generational service firsthand. It truly is beautiful.

Please invite your family and friends.

A Brief Overview of Taize
The Taize service focuses on prayer and Christian meditation. This form of worship is very popular with young people. Thousands of young people from all over the world visit the Taize community in France each year.

Taize has spawned a unique style of worship music that reflects the meditative nature of the service. The music emphasizes simple phrases, usually lines from Psalms or other pieces of scripture, repeated and sometimes also sung in canon. The repetition is intended to aid meditation and prayer.

In addition to offering a peaceful setting for contemplative prayer, Taize incorporates reading of scripture along with meditative singing
"Singing is one of the most essential elements of worship. Short songs, repeated again and again, give it a meditative character. Using just a few words they express a basic reality of faith, quickly grasped by the mind. As the words are sung over many times, this reality gradually penetrates the whole being. Meditative singing thus becomes a way of listening to God. It allows everyone to take part in a time of prayer together and to remain together in attentive waiting on God, without having to fix the length of time too exactly.  To open the gates of trust in God, nothing can replace the beauty of human voices united in song." (Retrieved from http://www.taize.fr/en_article338.html)

To find out more about Taize, please visit http://www.taize.fr/.

 

“It is just like a feast to see so many young adults on the hill, in all their diversity. It gives us the great hope that humanity at peace is possible.”

Brother Alois, during a meeting in the Church of Reconciliation