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Coracle TEMPLATE 5/10/12 09:30 Page 1 Autumn Coracle master:coracle TEMPLATE 5/10/12 09:30 Page 1 A TIME TO MEND Through hunger, injustice, poverty, violence, and the other sorrow-filled markers of our age, there is a time to pause, to listen, to laugh, to see beauty, to seek truth, to love deeply, and to mend our broken but beautiful human fabric. And maybe, just maybe, that time is now – today, right where we are. Peter Millar Cover photo by Martin Johnstone © coracle The Iona Community, 4th Floor, Savoy House, 140 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3DH t: 0141 332 6343 f: 0141 332 1090 e: [email protected] w: http://www.iona.org.uk/coracle.php © the iona community 2012/contents © the individual contributors Autumn Coracle master:coracle TEMPLATE 5/10/12 09:30 Page 2 coracle autumn 2012 issue 4/53 FOR ALL THE SAINTS GONE FORWARD: THE 2013 ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS ON IONA AND IN GLASGOW Peter Macdonald, p1 ‘IT WAS MAGIC!’: THE PRIORITY AREAS HOLIDAY WEEK ON IONA AND MULL the magazine of the iona community John and Molly Harvey, p3 KAIROS – SEIZING THE MOMENT, BUILDING A MOVEMENT/THE IONA coracle CALL Jan Sutch Pickard, Mark Braverman and guests of the Kairos Week on Iona, p6 Work and worship, Prayer and politics, Sacred and secular … Autumn Coracle master:coracle TEMPLATE 5/10/12 09:30 Page 3 The Iona Community is: 1 coracle Peter Macdonald autumn 2012 • An ecumenical community of men and information and women from different walks of life and feature different traditions in the Christian church For all the saints gone • Committed to the gospel of Jesus Christ, and to following where that leads, even into the forward: the 2013 unknown • Engaged together, and with people of goodwill across the world, in acting, reflecting and anniversary celebrations on praying for justice, peace and the integrity of creation Iona and in Glasgow … • Convinced that the inclusive community we seek must be embodied in the community Next year the Community will mark two significant we practise anniversaries – in May, the 1450th Anniversary of the So we share a common discipline of: • Daily prayer and bible study Arrival of Columba on Iona and, in June, the 75th • Mutual accountability for our use of time Anniversary of the Founding of the Iona Community. and money Leader Peter Macdonald fills us in on the 2013 • Spending time together • Action for justice and peace calendar of events – let us all become more Pentecostally expectant! … And are, together with our staff, responsible for: ‘On Pentecost Sunday we remembered in a wonderful way our gratitude to • Our islands residential centres of Iona Abbey, Columba and all the saints gone forward, by a great Act of Universal the MacLeod Centre on Iona, and Camas Communion. No historic denomination of Christendom that has ever served Adventure Centre on the Ross of Mull. And in Glasgow Scotland through the centuries was absent from the occasion, either in • The administration of the Community presence or benediction …’ • Our work with young people • Our publishing house, Wild Goose Publications So begins George MacLeod’s account of the 1400th anniversary • Our association in the revitalising of worship celebrations of the arrival of Columba on Iona. In bright sunshine and with with the Wild Goose Resource Group a stiff breeze enlivening the Sound, pilgrims came from all over Britain and The Iona Community was founded in Glasgow in Ireland and from as far away as Switzerland and even Australia. That year, 1938 by George MacLeod, minister, visionary and 1963, fortuitously, Pentecost and St Columba’s Day began and ended the prophetic witness for peace, in the context of the poverty and despair of the Depression. Its week for the hundreds of people staying in the camp. They were joined for original task of rebuilding the monastic ruins of the two main acts of worship by hundreds more who came by train, bus Iona Abbey became a sign of hopeful r ebuilding and steamship. As well as remembering and giving thanks for the past, of community in Scotland and beyond. Today, we participants were led in reflection upon ‘the shape of things to come’. are almost 250 Members, mostly in Britain, and 1500 Associate Members, with 1400 Friends Fifty years on, preparations are well-advanced for next year’s Pentecost worldwide. Together and apart, ‘we follow the celebrations, when we will mark the 1450th anniversary of Columba light we have, and pray for more light.’ setting foot on Iona. In 1963, I am told, the islanders had little or no Coracle is the bi-monthly magazine of the Iona involvement in the celebrations. However, next year’s events are being Community. Views expressed in it are not necessarily the policy of the Iona Community, but planned by a small group of folk representing the Parish Church, Cnoc a’ the Community seeks the exchange of thoughts Chalmain (the Roman Catholic House of Prayer), Bishop’s House and the and ideas as a basis for finding common ground. Iona Community. Invitations have been extended to leading political Letters are welcome, but may be edited because figures on both sides of the Irish Sea, senior representatives of the major of space restrictions. For advertising or denominations and local dignitaries. A proposed additional early-morning photography specifications, please contact the sailing from Oban will enable many other people to arrive on Iona in time editor. Unsolicited material is welcome (by email or on disk) but cannot always be included. for the service of thanksgiving. next copy dates: The inspiration of the Columban mission will provide the focus for the please contact the editor week’s programme in our centres, for guests who are involved in local contact details: ecumenical partnerships and initiatives. The Iona Community, 4th Floor, Savoy House, 140 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3DH Three weeks later, on Sunday 9th June, a large open-air service will be held t: 0141 332 6343 f: 0141 332 1090 on Iona to mark St Columba’s Day. Associated cultural events are being e: [email protected] planned by Argyll and Bute Council at four locations including Iona. w: http://www.iona.org.uk/coracle.php editor Neil Paynter Members, Associates and Friends are invited to events being held in administration Karen Turner Glasgow, 7-9th June, celebrating the Iona Community’s 75th anniversary. template design Wendy Ball, 2ND STOREY The weekend will include events such as the inaugural George MacLeod formatting by Neil Paynter Memorial Lecture, performances of a play based on the early years of the printed by Montgomery Litho, Glasgow rebuilding on Iona and of the Community, a service of thanksgiving in Coracle is the magazine of the Iona C ommunity, a Govan Old and a family picnic in Elder P ark. charity registered in Scotland No: SC003794 Company No: SC096243 We have booked exclusive use of the Glasgow Youth Hostel for the Friday Autumn Coracle master:coracle TEMPLATE 5/10/12 09:30 Page 4 and Saturday nights. It is hoped that as many Members and their families features coracle 2 can be with us for the weekend and that Associates, Friends and autumn 2012 1 For all the saints gone forward: feature supporters will attend the special events planned. A parallel programme the 2013 anniversary for children and young people is also planned. Here you will find the draft celebrations on Iona and in programme for both celebrations. More information will follow in due Glasgow by Peter Macdonald course. 3 ‘It was magic!’: The Church of Prior to the 1400th anniversary celebrations George wrote: Scotland Priority Areas Holiday Week on Iona and Mull by John ‘If hundreds of people come to Iona on Pentecost determined to partake of the and Molly Harvey Sacrament together … if they have all been praying for a great day … is it Kairos – seizing the moment, really extraordinary that something should happen? As Christians in our 6 building a movement/the Iona modern world are we really expecting anything to happen?’ Call by Jan Sutch Pickard, Mark As we look forward to next year and to the anniversary of the founding of Braverman and guests of the Kairos Week the Community – let us all become more Pentecostally expectant! on Iona God bless, 12 Of mice and Big Ben by David McNeish Peter 14 Finding hospitality on the 2013 CALENDAR OF EVENTS: IONA/GLASGOW Appalachian Trail by Doug Dunlap 16 Personal reflections of an THE 1450TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ARRIVAL OF COLUMBA ON IONA immigrant by John Dillon CELEBRATIONS: IONA, PENTECOST, MAY 2013: 17 North Point Douglas Women’s by Elaine Bishop Saturday 18th May Centre news An Island between Heaven and Earth, Iona Village Hall: A play by Alistair Rutherford originally written for BBC Radio 4, now adapted for the stage 5 Deficit reduction hits the and telling the story of a group of ex-shipyard workers and trainee poorest hardest by Paul Nicolson clergymen who arrive on the island of Iona in 1938 and set about 11 Trident and the Scottish restoring its ruined medieval abbey. Referendum by Brian Quail Sunday 19th May 18 Truth and Reconciliation A Service of Thanksgiving, Iona Abbey Commission: truth-telling, confession and reparation by Buffet reception Elaine Bishop The opening of Historic Scotland’s new interpretation facilities for visitors 19 The liberation theology of to Iona Pussy Riot by Alastair McIntosh An Island between Heaven and Earth, Iona Village Hall 20 Training ministers for a THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDING OF THE IONA prophetic church by John M. Hull COMMUNITY 21 From ‘Bron yr aur’ to ‘Tan y CELEBRATIONS: GLASGOW, 7-9TH JUNE 2013 bryn’ to Iona Community Carbon Coordinator by John Dale Friday
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