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« Taizéisms » and other familiar phrases


This is just a list of words and phrases you hear a lot in Taizé. About some you don't even think, about some you might laugh, some are more correct than others, some exist nowhere else in the world, but all of them are part of the common Taizé language.


there are so less people this week
can everyone understand English?
I understand nothing
personal silence
smashed potatoes
monastic tan

to invite
to welcome
to broom the floor
to go to the front
to jump the bushes
to support sing

children's animation
coordination of accommodation
changement list
gastro
passage group
the economat
being available / the jumper
can you check if there's enough paper toilet
the responsible
Bible introduction

The Welcome team: first welcome, welcome on the field, night welcome, walking welcome

big spoon
the washing up
El Abiodh fire alarm, since one hour
stocks (everywhere)
squeezie
toilet book
midday meal
working list
the hill
El Abiodh front
church boys
hangmat = hammock

I would say
normally it should be like this
I wonder if it is possible
more or less (more less than more)
you can take some time to relfect / for personal silence
Now I propose that we make small groups to share a little bit
Carry this question with you in the coming time
you have to see / feel a little bit
...kind of...
...like...
What shall we sing?
may I invite you to... = you have to
Ce n'est pas monastique.
là-bas
who feels vocated?
In Taizé it's not possible
We're not in France, we're in Taizé
I didn't saw that
I propose
I am not a brother, I am Ferenc
"they moved her"

















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