“Looking back on these 50 years of life on the hill alongside you, we can see that you, the Brothers of Taizé, have entered into our history, revealing and carrying, without knowing it, a new way of seeing Christ, which has come to renew us from the inside.
The face of Christ shown to us by your witness is:
- the universal Christ, brother of all, poor and humble of heart;
- the Christ of the Beatitudes;
- the Christ, leaven of peace and reconciliation;
- the Christ without borders, the Christ, inner Master of every life.
The grace which you brought took us first of all to our source: welcoming pilgrims marked our most distant origins.
This same grace moved our borders This opening up has certainly rooted up more deeply in the universal heart of the Church. It has had repercussions on the whole apostolic body we form: everywhere, in very different contexts, our sisters receive the grace of loving the Church, one and plural.
This grace of Christ which you have brought has certainly helped to simplify us. It has been, and continues to be today, a “blessing”.”
(Sr. Agnès Granier, General Superior)