Word: lona
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Ireland in his little coracle the missionary-saint, Columba, sailed to the isle of lona in the Inner Hebrides, off Scotland's west coast. There, in 563 A.D., on lona's misty, rainy four square miles, he established a base in the great Celtic Christianizing that swept eastward from Ireland to Britain, across to the Continent - and as far south as Vienna...
...lona became holy ground and the burial place of kings. Says Historian A. J. Toynbee: had it not been for one of history's incalculable shifts, lona, instead of Rome, might have been the Christian capital of western Europe.* In the 13th Century Benedictines began to build an abbey on lona. Before he died, St. Columba had made a prophecy...
...lona of my heart, Iona of my love...
...lona shall...
...three months each summer, masons, carpenters and other craftsmen from the Scottish mainland work, pray and live together with the 30-odd "young ministers of the Community. The rebuilding of lona is a means to an end, and has a twofold purpose: 1) to learn "what it means to be 'corporately separate' for the 20th Century. By our worship and our common life on the island we get something of ... a microcosmic but concentrated foretaste of what a 'Congregation' should be"; 2) "to sit at meat with craftsmen brothers who . . . are in touch all winter with...