[Music] REST IN PEACE, BROTHER ROGER

[judy ayesa]

Eternal rest grant to them O Lord and let perpetual
light shine upon him. May he rest in peace, AMEN.

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>    1. Brother Roger, founder of Taize, has been
> murdered (Robert Waldrop)
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> Message: 1
> From: "Robert Waldrop" <rmwj at soonernet.com>
> To: <music at justpeace.org>
> Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 19:23:22 -0500
> Subject: [Music] Brother Roger, founder of Taize,
> has been murdered
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> Eternal rest grant to him O Lord, and may
> perpetual light shine upon him.  May his soul, and
> the souls of all the faithful departed, through
> the mercy of God, rest in peace.
> 
> Robert Waldrop, Epiphany Church, OKC
> 
> FOUNDER OF RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY SLAIN IN FRANCE
>
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2005-08-17-brother-roger_x.htm
> 
> PICTURE: (Brother Roger founded the Taize
> religious community in
> 1940.  Miguel Riopa, AFP/Getty Images.)
>
http://images.usatoday.com/news/_photos/2005/08/17/roger-inside.jpg
> 
> TAIZE, France (AP) - Brother Roger, the
> 90-year-old founder of an
> ecumenical religious community dedicated to peace
> and
> reconciliation, was knifed to death by a woman at
> an evening prayer
> service attended by 2,500 people, authorities
> said.
> 
> The slaying was deplored Wednesday by the pope and
> the head of the
> Anglican Church, who called the slain monk "one of
> the best-loved
> Christian leaders of our time."
> 
> An all-night prayer vigil was held following the
> fatal attack
> Tuesday night in the church at Taize, in Burgundy.
> 
> A Romanian woman wielding a knife killed
> silver-haired Brother
> Roger, witnesses said. A community spokesman,
> Brother Emile, said
> the monk's throat was cut and he died 15 minutes
> later.
> 
> Taize officials said the woman had arrived two
> days earlier among
> thousands of pilgrims who visit the site.
> Prosecutor Jean-Louis
> Coste said the woman, reportedly 36 years old, had
> bought the knife
> the day before.
> 
> "It would appear for now there is little doubt
> that this was
> premeditated since she bought a knife the day
> before and voluntary
> homicide is manifest," Coste told reporters
> without naming the
> woman.
> 
> Coste said the woman detained for questioning by
> police., He said
> she was not "unbalanced enough to justify
> psychiatric care."
> 
> People at the service grabbed the woman, who had
> sprung from the
> crowd, and turned her over to police.
> 
> Brother Roger founded the Taize religious
> community in 1940
> emphasizing the need for all Christians to come
> together in peace,
> love and reconciliation. The Taize ecumenical
> community, which is
> near Macon, 240 miles southeast of Paris, draws
> tens of thousands of
> Christian youths from around the world each year
> for prayer and
> meditation.
> 
> Pope Benedict XVI said he had received a "very
> moving and very
> friendly letter" just Tuesday from Brother Roger.
> Benedict spoke of
> the "very sad and terrifying news."
> 
> "This is an indescribable shock," said Archbishop
> of Canterbury
> Rowan Williams, spiritual leader of the Church of
> England. "Brother
> Roger was one of the best-loved Christian leaders
> of our time and
> hundreds of thousands will be feeling his loss
> very personally, and
> remembering him in prayer and gratitude."
> 
> President Jacques Chirac praised Brother Roger as
> "one of the most
> remarkable servants of the values of respect and
> tolerance," while
> German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said he
> regarded Brother Roger
> as one of the "great contemporary personalities of
> religious life."
> 
> Schroeder praised him for sheltering Jewish
> refugees during World
> War II and later fostering reconciliation in
> Europe.
> 
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