Week Two

The second week on Iona began yesterday. I am staying at the MacLeod Centre now. It was built in 1988 and is more along the design of our Lavrock Centre. There are six of us in the room with bunk beds. There are only 15 of us registered with our two leaders, Peter and Ellie. People are from England Germany, Denmark, Australia and myself and another Anglican priest from British Columbia, via Australia. We are binding together and we joined the Abbey crowd, who are studying Britishness, for communion this morning at the Abbey church. Today is a relaxing day and tomorrow we begin sessions. In the afternoon, we will make a trip to Staffa, an island just north of Iona, with an interesting rock formation, caves and puffins. Felix Mendelssohn visited there and wrote his piece, Hebrides, based on his visit. Other famous people have visited including Queen Victoria. Hopefully it stays calm like today, as it is a one hour boat trip there and back. My chores this week are setting up, serving and cleaning up from lunch, plus every morning after 9am worship, cleaning the toilets. Humility galore!!!!