#taizé

[an-nae]

Last week I've been to Taizé. It's a christian community that ist open for visitors. My stay there was very beautiful, I've been getting to know lots of nice people from all around the world and I had the opportunity to practice my french too. There were a lot of nice messages on the bathroom walls and I thought it was very sweet.

[cana--merula]

I lived in the same house all my life, even when I left for university I would come back every weekend. This is my home. And I like the flat I live in now, but I still wouldn't call it my home in this sense of ultimate belonging. The only other place I ever felt that way was in Taizé. And I'm so happy to go back in a little over a week.

If you're not european and christian, you probably never heard about this place. It's a little village in the french countryside where a community of brothers are living and offering a safe space for thousands of young people from all over the world to meet up, connect and discuss whatever matters to them (that being religion or philosophy or life in general).

I first went there when I first finished school. Legally I was already an adult but I didn't feel that way. My future was still uncertain, I didn't knew if uni would work out. Even so, I didn't have many questions. I found the answers anyway.

I came back while studying. I knew what I would be doing in the next three years, how my life would look like (at least I thought so, this was in 2019). I had even fewer questions. I still got more answers.

Last time I went after finishing uni and I stayed a bit longer as a volunteer. I had a job that I could probably start after coming back, but nothing for certain. My whole life was changing again. This time I had more questions and I got answers to most of them.

I'm going back in a week and I'm trying to find my questions. I know they will come out as soon as I sit down in that church to sing the first song and I'm excited for them and for the answers. As soon as I reach that hill, I'm gonna be back in my second home. I can't wait. ♡

[lapseudosphere]

2. Petit historique - partie 2 (pseudossier : le phénomène ovni)

À lire avant pour ne pas être trop perdu :

1. Petit historique - Partie 1

Pseudocomplément : l'affaire Roswell

Je remercie les chercheuses et chercheurs cité·e·s dans ce pseudossier pour leurs travaux. Pour réaliser ce pseudossier, je me suis appuyé sur des films documentaires, des interviews vidéos, des ouvrages, des articles de presse ou de sites internet. Je remercie les pseudosphéristes passionnés qui en sont à l’origine.

Principales pseudosources :

Je me suis appuyé sur l’ouvrage suivant pour l’ensemble de ce pseudossier : Franck Maurin, Les mystères du phénomène ovni - de la préhistoire à nos jours, Éditions La Vallée Heureuse, 2016

Pour ce chapitre, je me suis également appuyé sur la page Wikipédia qui recense de manière chronologique les principaux cas d’ovni, il est possible à partir de cette page, d’accéder à des articles plus détaillés : https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronologie_de_l%27ufologie

Mutilations animales : Gildas Bourdais, ovnis : vers la fin du secret ?, Édition Le Temps Présent, 2010 (pages 211 à 223)

Malmstrom : Paranormal Channel, L'incident de la base militaire de Malmstrom (USA) - 1967 (https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3oeiia) Leslie Kean, Ovnis, des généraux des pilotes et des officiels parlent, Editions Dervy, 2010 (pages 202 et 203) Egon Kragel et Yves Couprie, Ovnis - Enquête sur un secret d'États, Éditions Le cherche midi, 2010 (pages 196 à 198)

Minot AFB : https://minotb52ufo.com/

Stephen Michalak : (en anglais) https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/falcon-lake-incident-book-anniversary-1.4121639 https://lesrepasufologiques.org/stephen-michalak-et-le-cas-de-falcon-lake-1967/ Chaîne Muloot X-files "MYSTERES - Emission N°14 - L'OVNI de Falcon Lake" (https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x18dip0)

Oanis au Vénézuela : Henry Durrant, Les dossiers des ovni, Éditions Robert Lafont, 1973 (pages 52 et 53)

Shag Harbour et oanis : https://www.barringtonmunicipality.com/Visiting-Us/shag-harbour-ufo-incident https://inexplore.inrees.com/articles/oanis-mysteres-dans-mysteres-armee http://www.dramatic.fr/colomb-p746.html

Observation de Taizé : https://rr0.org/science/crypto/ufo/enquete/dossier/Taize/ Thibaut Canuti, Histoire de l'ufologie française, Le temps des soucoupistes, Éditions Le temps présent, (pages 276 à 279)

Travis Walton : Chaîne de Nuréa TV, Disparitions Mystérieuses : Le cas Travis Walton (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k78W_DdMOps)

Ovni de Téhéran : Leslie Kean, Ovnis, des généraux des pilotes et des officiels parlent, Editions Dervy, 2010 (pages 116 à 124 et page 210)

Ovni de Colares : Chaine Nuréa TV OVNIs en Amazonie : L' Affaire Colares (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b1zei8giSs) https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/colaresf.htm Chaine SANTIAGO Didier, Les mystères des Ovnis de Colares avec Elisabeth De Caligny (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1h6_5B_w2M&t=6702s)

Incident de Rendlesham : Il y a eu plusieurs confusions au niveau des dates et de l'enchaînement des évènements dans ce dossier complexe. Je me suis appuyé sur les sources suivantes : (en anglais) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendlesham_Forest_incident https://theunredacted.com/rendlesham-forest-ufo-the-christmas-invasion/ Leslie Kean, Ovnis, des généraux des pilotes et des officiels parlent, Editions Dervy, 2010 (pages 249 à 261) Autres sources : https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/rendlesf.htm https://rr0.org/science/crypto/ufo/enquete/dossier/Bentwaters/ https://www.therendleshamforestincident.com/2023/01/how-rendlesham-binary-code-message.html https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incident_de_Rendlesham https://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2001-01-25a.22.3&s=speaker%3A13225 https://hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/1997-10-28/debates/829bc73d-7e53-4412-8ae6-0c1be8942f77/RafBentwatersAndWoodbridgNuclearWeaponsAllegations

Betty Cash : (En anglais) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cash%E2%80%93Landrum_incident

[apoemaday]

Your Pilgrimage

by Ko Un tr. Brother Anthony of Taizé and Lee Sang-Wha

A slower pace, a somewhat slower pace will do. Of a sudden, should it start to rain, let yourself get soaked. An old friend, the rain.

One thing alone is beautiful: setting off. The world's too vast to live in a single place, or three or four.

Walk on and on until the sun sets, with your old accomplice, shadow, late as ever. If the day clouds over, go on anyway regardless.

[flying-yellow-bib]

I have a great time in Slovenia (Taizé European Youth Meeting), but it's sad that I'm missing most of 4hills. But I was very happy to check the news and see that Andi won today!

[dehonians-philippines]

Finding Light in Unexpected Places: The Inspiring Story of Talisay's Dehonian Youth

[camelcasebestcase]

crafting asks: 5, 6, 11!

5. anything you have made that you hated?

I once knitted a sleeveless cardigan out of leftover yarn of several colours with large seed stitch diamonds that just turned out super disappointing. It took forever, was boring to knit, and when finished was a little bit too small for me. I ended up donating it.

6. anything you made that you loved?

I love most of the things I've made, so I took a picture of some hightlights.

The first thing I knit (apart from some practice squares that are lost to time), at age 16-17 (it took that long lol), was a 3 meter 4th doctor scarf. I would even work on it between classes at school. You can see where I started, because there's a bunch of dropped stitches there, and one botched colour change, and on the other end my knitting had become so much more even. I couldn't get all the colours from the same brand, so I went to different shops and bought all kinds of different yarns - that's why the edge is so wobbly, there's a lot of different weights!

It looks decent and it taught me so much, I'll always cherish it for that reason, though I rarely wear it anymore because it's impractical.

The sweater is from 2021. Kind of a 10 years of knitting anniversary! It's pure wool (A sheep and alpaca blend if I recall correctly) and very warm. I don't love the cold, but I love that I can wear this sweater when it's cold! It's part of why I often have to turn up the heat a bit for guests in winter... I used a standard drops sweater pattern for the shape of the sweater, and came up with the colour pattern myself. The collar is kinda improvised, but I like how it turned out. I love working with colours, thought recently I have been branching out into doing more with cables too. I calculate how many stitches I have, figure out whether I can divide that by something like 16 or 20, and then draw out patterns until I find something I like on 5 mm paper.

I carved the symbol into the prayer bench when I volunteered in Taizé, a religious community in France which organizes retreats for particularly young people. It's my rendition of the orange origami boat, the symbol of the German pro-refugee movement (I don't think it's used as much anymore). Before I was in Taizé, I volunteered in a women's center for refugees in Greece for half a year. Nowadays my pro-refugee activities mostly consists of donating. If you want to help, considering donating to action for women, offene arme, equal rights beyond borders if you want to support the small organizations whom I have personally seen doing amazing work, or doctors without borders if you prefer an org with a wider scope who also does great work there.

The potholders are the first and so far only thing I quilted- they are completely hand-quilted from thrifted fabrics, and I love how they turned out. I now have a sewing machine, and yesterday a friend got it to work, so there's gonna be a lot of quilting in my future I hope!

The shirt is bought, but I embroidered the flowers with perl cotton. I had done some cross-stitch before, but this was the firs time I did this kind of embroidery. I based the flowers on the drawings of the herbs in pathologic 2, and used some instructional videos on youtube to figure out how to stitch them.

11. best thing about [your craft] is?

I mostly knit, but what I like in any craft is to make things that are are both pretty and can be used. And I can make exactly what I want! Of course, with literally *all* of these, there are things that could be improved. With everything I make, I reflect on what I made before, and change how I do it. But while everything I make is flawed, it's already great for just existing. It's fun to make things, and it's fun to use things I have made. The options are endless.

[ivyppoison]

topics ‘m hoping won’t come up tomorrow ── r.s

1. pilgrimage ( christian pilgrimages just don’t make any sense, but they go to walsingham to visit the place where the visions of mary happened, jerusalem where jesus taught and died and lived the rest of his days, iona to walk & pray, and taizé to gather w other young ppl in the faith <3 )

2. the worldwide church ( i’ve just never understood it but there’s reconciliation, persecution, charity and Christian aid <3 )

[moonystoes]

Are we sure that it's a van cleef bracelet? Because to me it looks like a bracelet with a cross from Taizé

I'm not sure about the brand Taizé (im not Christian and too broke to know jewelry brands lol)

Elisa did wear a cross for a while:

But I'm pretty sure the one she's wearing now is a van cleef bracelet:

[iibislintu]

"Joy is not an overestimated feeling, nor an individualistic happiness that leads to isolation, but the serene certainty that life has meaning. Far from an exaltation that escapes problems, it makes us even more sensitive to the hardships of others. It is stronger than the fear of instability, of the unknown, of the stranger. An inner joy does not diminish solidarity with others, it nourishes it."

-Brother Alois of Taizé (source)

[tinyshe]

JESUS, REMEMBER ME

A beautiful chant from Taizé, France, based on the words of one of the men crucified with Jesus, underscores a meditation on the face of Christ, his suffering, death and resurrection. Music by St. Thomas Music Group, Woodford Green, under the direction of Margaret Rizza.

[normalbeing404]

this is a typical Taizé breakfast: some baguette 🥖, a bit of butter 🧈 and two sticks of chocolate 🍫. you can choose between tea and cacao to go along with it.

it's best prepared by ripping the bread open, smothering it with butter and laying one stick of chocolate inside (the other one is a snack for after).

i took that photo this morning.

i also watched a film about the founder of Taizé today, i would have loved to meet him!

in bible discussion we talked about social injustices and our strengths and weaknesses!

[cana--merula]

Last year I watched Eurovision with thirty other girls from different european countries (plus two american girls) who volunteered at the Taizé community in France. It was the best viewing experience of the esc I ever had, we did our own voting and just had a lot of fun. Some of them were quite into it and watched every year, some were casual viewers and some hadn't even heard about it (which included the two american girls, of course).

This year, I am in America, visiting my uncle, who moved here, and his family. I wonder how the vibe will be to sit down on at saturday morning to watch the esc with no one else who knows much about it (as even my uncle wouldn't normally watch it). But I can imagine that the kids will like all the over the top performances, even if they will probably not like all the songs and will not have the attention span for the whole thing. It will be very different from last year, but hopefully also fun.

[sethian123]

Trip to Taizé (haibun poem)

In days long past, my school did a pilgrimage to a small land of peace and reconciliation, that lay in the nation of passion and revolution. As a community from nations near and far, we all ate simple food in the daylight flavouring the fresh air, allowing us all to discover joy in pearls hidden in fields. I listened and sang hymns of honey given by the monks dressed in white. Through the songs on my tongue, I tasted gladness of heart and peace in mind, though sometimes the words were a mystery to me. I spent my personal time in the chapel, sitting in silent worship amid polished stone with orange windows. I listened to the peace of flowing milk around me, and the occasional drip touching my tongue. I did not understand the divine flowing all around and within me, though I felt its gentle touch. It was a mystery to me, incompressible and veiled by my shackles. A mystery that I had not comprehended at that time, till I took a bit of fruit in years after. But the hymns of sweet honey and the flowing milk was but a faint taste to me. I was not a Christian back then as I am now. I was still led along by the hope of a New Age back then. Though the milk and honey were sweet to my tongue, I could not have swallowed the medicine they contained within. Yaldabaoth had chained my neck tight by his words and by his mirages of the desert, until I found the Tree of Gnosis that unlocked my neck and heart later in life. As such, the milk, honey or any beverage of the spirit were not my found treasure there, but the friends that journeyed with me. They were a mountain filled with greenery for me. Birds were tweeting in laughter, and the trees were rustling in chatter. Wind was playing games in the branches, and the sun was shining over this all. We all slept and hung out in tents at night when there was no blistering sunlight showering us. That was a mountain of friendship I never climbed before and never climbed up again. Only memories of the mountain peak of shining white remain. I can no longer see that princess of moonlight now, though I was closest to her on the mountain peak. I felt her cool breath amidst the stars, and I heard her laughter among the trees at daylight. 

On the green mountain

With honey and pearly milk

Laughing with the moon

[generouswindow]

Hope is Lonely

by KIM SEUNG HEE Translation from the Korean by Brother Anthony of Taizé

People often say that despair is lonely but I reckon that hope is even lonelier. Despair might be termed the peace of gravity. For a pig to become bacon all it has to do is relax and subside into a pool of blood . . . and still its head is grinning pink. Despair has a similar warmth of sorrow.

Hope sometimes provides first aid but there may sometimes be people who dislike hope’s first aid, maybe. Reckoning that despair offers more comfort, following a bright ray of sunlight trembling in the breeze, you came from afar to obtain medicine but being already convinced that the medicine has no effect your sickness grew worse.

The cactus – hope’s totem pole . . .

Even on a night when all the words flew away from the dictionary, even at that moment like blue lightning standing quietly before a chair after taking off my shoes, the word hope barely managed to remain and because of that one word, I cannot discard everything. The word hope prevents the world’s ruins from being completed. Beating my breast and asking why I don’t let the ruins continue, rather because of that hope there are frighteningly lonelier times.

The cactus – hope’s totem pole . . . it’s an order to love still, more, fully, until blood flows freely

Though I want to escape, put an end to it, that bright sunlight being shared out for no reason, such a waste, like blood spreading in water . . . hope and I, hope is a life sentence. Hope is lonely.