We spent our New Year 2016-17 in an ecumenical Taizé meeting in Riga, Latvia, with 15,000 young people who had come together to pray, make a pilgrimage and to meet young people from all over Europe and the world. The four of us were blessed to be placed into host families, me with my sister Anna and Henriikka (you can read her report from Riga here) and Walaa together. We got to experience the warm hospitality of the Latvians and can be grateful. This year the ones of us that had been to Taizé meetings before were happy to see so many friends from previous years. |