Taizé Night Prayer is a distinctive style of meditative prayer developed by a community of monks in rural Taizé, France. This quiet, moving reflective prayer combines elements of the Church’s traditional Liturgy of the Hours, Adoration, and contemplative meditation.

A typical Taizé prayer service incorporates periods of silence with meditative readings from Scripture, prayers of praise and intercession, and songs or chants based on the Psalms or other parts of Scripture. Short songs or chants, repeated over and over, create a meditative environment and express basic realities of faith which can be easily grasped by the mind and the heart.

Taizé Prayer is widely practiced today in student centers and retreat houses, but also in parish churches and local congregations throughout the world.