This month’s Sounds of Iona piece comes from Caro Penney and the Israel/Palestine Common Concern Network with a prayer from the Wild Goose Resource Group and song by Iain McLarty in response to the conflict in Israel-Gaza.
Ruth Harvey’s final postcard from the lands now called Australia reflects on how lessons from the other side of the world might apply to the Iona Community.
Join the Iona Community, Wild Goose Publications, Wild Goose Resource Group and Iona Abbey as we make our way through the season of Advent with online and onsite events.
Ruth shares reflections on lessons from birds and the people she met in Ngunnawal and Ngambri Country (Canberra) and Warrang, Eora Nation (Sydney).
Ruth Harvey’s fourth postcard from the listening pilgrimage on Naarm, Wurundjeri and Boonwurrung Country (Melbourne), GunaiKurnai Country (Gippsland)
With a situation so vast, against the backdrop of a complex world stage, it is difficult to know how to respond to the devastation in Israel/Palestine. Here are some suggestions of how to learn more, pray faithfully and act wisely.
This month’s Sounds of Iona piece comes from Caro Penney and the Israel/Palestine Common Concern Network with a prayer from the Wild Goose Resource Group and song by Iain McLarty in response to the conflict in Israel-Gaza.
Meeting as a global Community What do a passionate talk on being a multi-language community, a story of two men walking to Jerusalem and a communion under the stars have
‘…grant us times of
deep-dreaming-rest,
of reverie and revelation,
where pathways to peace may open wide,
and roads to reconciliation will unfold.’
Read Ruth’s third postcard from a Listening Pilgrimage.
‘Gather us in to listen deeply, share intently, understand so fully that our differences become starting points and our points of intersection become rivers of connection flowing more deeply than all that divides…’ Read Ruth’s reflection in full in the second postcard from a Listening Pilgrimage.