Lindisfarne Priory

Lindisfarne Priory was originally founded in 634 by Irish Christians led by Aidan, who had come from Iona in southern Scotland. When the Romans left Britannia in 410, much of Christianity left with them, such as it was. The land was again succumbing to another breed of paganism, no longer based around the old Mediterranean idols of the Classical world, but the thuggish gods of the Angles, Jutes and Saxons. Outposts of Christianity survived, quietly re-evangelising far-flung places like the kingdom of Northumbria, in which Lindisfarne was located. That base of evangelism became an ornate, stone-built abbey and was abandoned at the great Reformation. Yet it also neatly depicts our current need for re-evangelisation. As a new, monotheistic paganism sweeps the land and church buildings lay, if not quite in ruins, but exhibited and advertised in the windows and brochures of estate agents, the national need for the saving, transforming gospel of Jesus Christ becomes clearer by the day. From the old ruins of Christianity sprang Lindisfarne, and from around its present ruins shall spring a new wave of men and women calling on the name of the Lord. For such a day, we pray.

And as for Seth, to him also a son was born; and he named him Enosh. Then men began to call on the name of the Lord. Genesis 4:26

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