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**gusecrync** · 09-04-2009, 09:34 PM

When I was there in '77, dear in Christ Reader Michael, I stayed in a friend's home on the Island of Mull and took the ferry over to Iona. While I was there, I didn't do any "tours" of the place or meet anyone, though I am sure the "Iona Community" were there somewhere...I just stayed there and prayed, and I found that it was an excellent place to go to make up my mind about whether to go forward with becoming Orthodox. It's what people call a "thin place", where the veil between heaven and earth seems to open...I don't know how to explain that.

Mary Emily
who sat for a long time in the ruins of the old Benedictine convent on Iona.

P.S. It was August when I was there, and it was quite chilly, especially if you walk out into the sea and then come back onto the land.

09-04-2009, 09:34 PM	#10
gusecrync Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 530 Senior Member	When I was there in '77, dear in Christ Reader Michael, I stayed in a friend's home on the Island of Mull and took the ferry over to Iona. While I was there, I didn't do any "tours" of the place or meet anyone, though I am sure the "Iona Community" were there somewhere...I just stayed there and prayed, and I found that it was an excellent place to go to make up my mind about whether to go forward with becoming Orthodox. It's what people call a "thin place", where the veil between heaven and earth seems to open...I don't know how to explain that. Mary Emily who sat for a long time in the ruins of the old Benedictine convent on Iona. P.S. It was August when I was there, and it was quite chilly, especially if you walk out into the sea and then come back onto the land.
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