| The Pilgrimage Walk Around Iona THE MACHAIR This raised beach, made fertile by seaweed and shells washed in from the sea, is the island's common grazing land and also its golf course! Here pilgrims share food, swap stories, give thanks for each other - a place to rest along the way. |
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HERMIT'S CELL In a quiet place on the island is a ring of stones. They are probably the remains of a hut, where monks came from the Abbey Community to find God in silence and solitude. We all need moments of quiet to think and to listen. We visit the Hermit's Cell together on the pilgrimage, but it is also a good place to come on your own DUN I Dun I is the highest hill on Iona. From its summit, on a clear day, you can see the mainland and many Hebridean islands. Here is a place to think about the world beyond Iona - a world that we have to return to - a world that may be hard and dangerous - but a world that belongs to God and in which God is always with us. |
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ST ORAN'S CHAPEL: The pilgrimage ends in a graveyard - a reminder that for Christians life and death and resurrection are parts of each other, and that the Christian journey does not end in death, but in life beyond death. |
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Photo by M Bennett |
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The Pilgrimage walk on Iona is a way of exploring your own life's journey - and, as in all journeys, it has to be experienced to find out what it's all about. Often the Pilgrimage walk ends with a song by Sydney Carter, a prayer to God who calls us and accompanies us on our journeying -
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