Taize meeting in Germany

The 45th European Meeting of Young Adults will take place in Germany, in the city of Rostock, from 28 December to 1 January 2023, prepared by the Taizé Community together with the local Churches. Around 5,000 young people from all over Europe and beyond will seek together a renewed momentum of hope.

Common prayers at HanseMesse and workshops on various spiritual, social, artistic, political and economic themes will shape the meeting, which will take place for the first time in this part of Germany - one of the most secularised areas in Europe. The civil authorities have actively supported this meeting. The former President of the Federal Republic of Germany, Joachim Gauck, will speak at the 1pm prayer on 30 December.

On arrival, the young people will receive a message from Brother Alois entitled 'Inner life and solidarity', which will serve as a common thread for the morning small group sharing and during the meetings in Taizé throughout 2023.

Brother Alois is currently on a five day visit to Ukraine. He is meeting Church leaders and young people in Kyiv and Lviv, where he will stay until 25 December .

He said: "So many young people have come from Ukraine in recent years to Taizé and the European meetings. There will be nearly 300 of them at the meeting in Rostock, but many will not be able to come because of the war. I wanted to come and meet them to tell them of our solidarity during this terrible ordeal."

LINKS

Rostock meeting programme: www.taize.fr/IMG/pdf/livretfrfinal.pdf
Taize: www.taize.fr