(In no particular order.) 1. Knots I love Celtic knot designs. Our wedding rings have the eternity knot design, a symbol that love never ends. My husband stenciled a Celtic knot design on the landing of the stairs leading to my office. We have the design in several places around our home, including stepping…
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A Time of Celtic Worship
Many of us have been watching a lot of church online. I stumbled across this worship session of Christmas caroles led by the group Celtic Worship from 2020. Definitely worth your time! I usually skip sharing videos that won’t allow me to embed them, but this is an exception. You’ll need to pop over to…
She Danced to Her Own Shadow
From the Carmina Gadelica comes the story of Mary Macrae. Alexander Carmichael, the collector of these “Songs of the Gales,” describes her this way: “…rather under than over middle height, but strongly and symmetrically formed. She often walked with companions, after the work of the day was done, distances of ten and fifteen miles to a dance, and after…
The Women of the Magdalene Laundries
It’s a sad and horrifying fact of Irish history that thousands of women were detained and forced to work long, hard hours scrubbing away their sins in places that were called Magdalene Laundries. If you’ve never heard of them before, read this. And before you think this is a historical story, the last of them was…
Searching the Past
Amazon affiliate links appear in this post. As an affiliate I earn from purchases made through these links. While it doesn’t cost you any more, it does help support my writing. As you probably know if you read my blog and/or have read my books, I’m keenly interested in the early Christian period in Ireland….
An Old Celtic Prayer
This is a general prayer from Douglas Hyde’s book, The Religious Songs of Connacht. He attributes it to a man named Michael Picoid. It was originally written in Latin. You can read my thoughts below. I believe in Thee ; strengthen my belief. I trust in Thee ; confirm my trust. I love Thee ; double my love. I…
A Look at Celtic Prayer
In 2010 I posted this (note that the book Celtic Wisdom is now The Roots of Irish Wisdom.) From my book, CELTIC WISDOM, TREASURES FROM IRELAND “Prayer was not reserved primarily for church: it was a natural outpouring of the culture, a culture that saw power in the natural world, one that did not see a division…
Celtic Prayers as Song
“Their prayers were songs, and as they crooned or intone them, they seem close to the continuous prayer the Orthodox describe as a murmur in the heart.” ~Esther De Waal, God Under My Roof I first published this blog post in 2011. I had this idea in my head for quite sometime and it eventually developed…
Exclusive for Newsletter Subscribers: A Celtic Christmas
Greetings! If you found your way here, that means you are a valued newsletter subscriber. Thanks for reading. I’m sharing a wee story I wrote just for you! There are festivals, market days, feasts of saints days. There are church calendar days that are important for remembering the saving grace of our faith. But to…
A Celtic Thanksgiving Prayer
Give us O God of the nourishing meal, well-being to the body, the frame of the soul.Give us O God of the honey-sweet milk,the sap and the savor of the fragrant farms. God in our waking, God in our speaking;God in our cooking, God in our eating;God in our playing, God in our digesting;God in…
