Lenten Taizé prayer service offered March 26 at St. Charles church

St. Charles Episcopal Church, 994 N. Fifth Ave. (Route 25), invites the community to experience a Lenten Taizé Prayer Service at 4 p.m. Sunday, March 26, featuring the parish choir and instrumentalists.

Worship in the style of Taizé, a monastic community in eastern France, is a quiet, simple way of prayer, designed for people of all Christian traditions. These meditative services include simple chants sung repeatedly, rich silence, and prayers of praise and intercession.

For more than 50 years, Taizé, France, has been the home of a Christian monastic community made up of brothers from many different countries, speaking many different languages and, uniquely, belonging to several different Christian denominations. Catholics, Anglicans, Protestants, Orthodox, and others live and pray together, share a simple life, and welcome tens of thousands of visitors who come every year from all over the world.

Sacred Music at the Red Door, St. Charles Episcopal Church's gift to the community, presents this musical offering.

The series has helped to establish St. Charles as a destination for those seeking musical refreshment and excellence, drawing on the existing strengths of our choir and guest artists, Georgian architecture, the Howell 21-rank organ, and Anglican heritage.

For more information, email mdowney807@gmail.com.

St. Charles Episcopal Church celebrates three Sunday morning Eucharist services. The building is wheelchair-accessible.

For more information about the outdoor labyrinth, outreach opportunities, and youth and adult education classes, visit www.stcharlesepiscopal.org or call (630) 584-2596.