On the Sunday evening I made my way from Holy Island to an even smaller island – St Cuthbert’s Isle, which you can cross to easily when the tide is out. I had to be quick though as it was around 9 in the evening and getting dark. People are often got caught out with [...]
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Retreat 5: St Cuthbert
Posted in Holy Island of Lindisfarne (Northumbria), Uncategorized, tagged Holy Island, Lindisfarne, Monastery, Retreat, St Cuthbert on June 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Retreat 5: Island meditations
Posted in Holy Island of Lindisfarne (Northumbria), Uncategorized, tagged Holy Island, Lindisfarne, meditation, nature, Spirituality on May 28, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Ebb tide, full tide Let life’s rhythms flow Full tide, ebb tide How life’s beat must go (David Adam*) The funniest thing happened when we arrived at the Open Gate Retreat house on Lindisfarne. My mum, having seen the sign Community of Aiden and Hilda on the wall outside and not knowing a knowing a [...]
Retreat 5: The Holy Island of Lindisfarne
Posted in Holy Island of Lindisfarne (Northumbria), Uncategorized on May 21, 2010 | 1 Comment »
‘Lindisfarne – baptised in the blood of so many good men – truly a ‘Holy Island’ ’ It took the best part of a day to journey up to Lindisfarne, the tiny island that sits off the picturesque coast of Northumbria. I was fortunate enough to be driven up there, but arrived too late to [...]
An island retreat
Posted in Holy Island of Lindisfarne (Northumbria), Uncategorized on May 14, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Today I head to Lindisfarne in Northumberland, also known as Holy Island, which sits just south of the border to Scotland on the East Coast. It is seen as ‘holy’ because St Aidan went to the island in 635AD from Iona and built a monastery there; it was here that Christianity flourished and spread. It is [...]
