Sad News

Christian leader stabbed to death

'The 90-year-old founder of the French-based Taize Christian ecumenical community has been stabbed to death at a prayer service. '

As regular readers will know I have previously posted about my visits to Taize which is where Brother Roger lived and now, very sadly, was murdered.

I'm shocked and saddened by his death - everyone who knew about Taize realised it was only a matter of time before he died as he was an old man, but not in such a violent manner.

I usually detest gushing sentimentality just because someone has died but he truly was a great man. The word reconciliation was very prominent in Brother Roger's vocabulary and I know that he would want people to forgive the young woman that took his life. Unfortunately the rest of us would struggle to achieve the levels of compassion and love that seemed to come so naturally to him.