A Meditation for Saint Patrick’s Day There is a joke going around Dublin these days that claims St. Patrick made a mistake when he drove the snakes out of Ireland – It should have been the lawyers. An interesting observation in that the Saint himself functioned at times as a lawyer, or Brehon. In fact, […]
Celtic Worldview: Sensitive & Whole (Holy)
You created men and women to be your stewards of the earth, always praising you for your boundless love.* If one were to need a word to sum up the entirety of the Celtic world view, it could be nothing else than “wholeness.” The Celtic world view is a one that informs the entirety of […]
Redemption Through Pilgrimage
May the Son of God be at the outset of my journey, May the Son of God be in surety to aid me; May the Son of God make clear my way, May the Son of God be at the end of my seeking. Celtic Christianity can be summed up in two words: death […]
Living in the Borderlands
Are you willing to be sponged out, erased, canceled, made nothing? Are you willing to be made nothing? Dipped into oblivion? If not you will never really change. -D. H. Lawrence Erased, cancelled, made nothing, dipped into oblivion — This is what living in the Borderlands is all about. The Borderlands is that gray region […]
The Once Upon A Time
Reflections on the Celtic Understanding of Time The influence at the sense. has in most men, overpowered the mind to the degree, that the walls of time and space have came to look solid, real and insurmountable; and to speak with levity of these limits is, in the world the sign of insanity.1 – […]
Celebration of Creation
Our God is the God of Heaven and Earth, of sea and river, of sun and moon and stars, of the lofty mountain and the lowly valley.(1) These words of St. Patrick are the epitome of the Celtic Christian’s holy embrace of nature. They speak of their sense of ecology. Everywhere one goes, even today, […]
Beer: The Drink of the Gods
From Brigit’s Feast, Vol. 3, #3, Lughnasah 1999, original title: “The Drink of the Gods.” Hold curser over bottom of the page to bring up next page dialog.