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Within Our Darkest Night

Author: Communauté de Taizé Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: In our darkness, kindle a fire

[In our darkness, kindle a fire]

Appears in 15 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Jacques Berthier, 1923-1994 Tune Key: e minor Incipit: 77767 11112 32123 Used With Text: Within Our Darkest Night

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Author: Taize Community Hymnal: Gather Comprehensive #644 (1994) First Line: In our darkness, kindle a fire Topics: Loss Languages: English Tune Title: [In our darkness, kindle a fire]

Within Our Darkest Night

Author: Taizé Community Hymnal: RitualSong #767 (1996) First Line: In our darkness, kindle a fire Topics: Alienation; Comfort; Comfort; Compassion; Encouragement; Fear; Funeral; Grieving; Healing; Hope; Interfaith; Loss; Love of God for Us; Pastoral Care of the Sick; Refuge; Struggle; Suffering Languages: English Tune Title: [In our darkness, kindle a fire]

Within Our Darkest Night

Author: Taizé Community Hymnal: RitualSong (2nd ed.) #832 (2016) First Line: In our darkness, kindle a fire Topics: Comfort Languages: English Tune Title: [In our darkness, kindle a fire]

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Jacques Berthier

1923 - 1994 Person Name: Jacques Berthier, 1923-1994 Composer of "[In our darkness, kindle a fire]" in Gather Comprehensive Jacques Berthier (b. Auxerre, Burgundy, June 27, 1923; d. June 27, 1994) A son of musical parents, Berthier studied music at the Ecole Cesar Franck in Paris. From 1961 until his death he served as organist at St. Ignace Church, Paris. Although his published works include numerous compositions for organ, voice, and instruments, Berthier is best known as the composer of service music for the Taizé community near Cluny, Burgundy. Influenced by the French liturgist and church musician Joseph Gelineau, Berthier began writing songs for equal voices in 1955 for the services of the then nascent community of twenty brothers at Taizé. As the Taizé community grew, Berthier continued to compose most of the mini-hymns, canons, and various associated instrumental arrangements, which are now universally known as the Taizé repertoire. In the past two decades this repertoire has become widely used in North American church music in both Roman Catholic and Protestant traditions. Bert Polman