Ruth Harvey’s fourth postcard from the listening pilgrimage on Naarm, Wurundjeri and Boonwurrung Country (Melbourne), GunaiKurnai Country (Gippsland)ย
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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 fullyย that our differences become starting points andย our points of intersection become rivers of connectionย flowing more deeply than all that divides…’ Read Ruth’s reflection in full in the second postcard from a Listening Pilgrimage.
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.
‘If day one was a day of opening our hearts to the pain of the past, day two was a moment of healing amongst friends and strangers.ย ‘ย Ruth Harvey shares reflections from the first stage of the Listening Pilgrimage in the lands now called Australia.
This beautiful image was commissioned by the Wellspring Community for the Listening pilgrimage. Find out more about the artist behind it and the Listening pilgrimage here.
Interfaith Relations CCN and Peace CCN are collaborating with โAlignment: Interfaith Contemplative Practicesโ (headed up by Associate Member Margaret Somerville) and the Week of Prayer for World Peace (WPWP) committee to produce a digital offering for this yearโs prayer week.ย










