Weekly beauty: Taizé music

Since I've already been thinking about music this week, I'm sticking with the theme for your weekly glimpse of beauty. The Taizé Community of France is an ecumenical, international monastic community that has become well-known for its music. Here's part of their own description of their songs:

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.

I love the meditative nature of Taizé music. I have this album, plus a few other individual songs, and I turn to them often in my personal devotions. Here are YouTube clips of a couple of my favorites.


"Magnificat" canon

The Latin words, "Magnificat anima mea Dominum," are the first line of Mary's song (Luke 1), "My soul magnifies the Lord."




"Wait for the Lord" is from Psalm 27:14.