Prayers are the salt of the meeting. Yesterday I attended evening prayer of the Taizé community and tonight was Iona community's turn. Both were held at the beautiful Lutheran cathedral of Sibiu and both were really nice.
Iona community is an ecumenical Christian community in Scotland. They had prepared an evening prayer on the topic of Israel-Palestine 'fence'. The people attending were divided into two groups, one in the choir (front) of the church and the other in the normal benches. The prayer had some songs from Israel and texts that went through the history of the Israel region, showing that there has always been someone putting up fences. During the readings people built a wall in between the two groups of people out of boxes. This was really efficient, because everybody would have wanted to see the other group which was on the other side of the wall. In the end of the prayer the wall was left there, because the 'fence' still exists between the Israelians and Palestinians.
This was a really concrete way of making people open their eyes on the issue and in a way that showed how sad the situation is for the people living on both sides, not just from the view of one side. Thank you Iona, I appreciate.
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