Here is a short blog and prayer I found on the Sojourners blog that I wanted to repost. It helps us to focus on what is important, especially during this Lenten season. Please read and let the prayer be your prayer as you reflect on your own life this Lenten season and how to more [...]
I am joining in the reflection this Lenten season with Mustard Seed Associates and their Lenten synchroblog. You can join in reflecting as well by going and downloading their “A Journey into Wholeness: A Lenten Reflection Guide“
As i reflect this day, Ash Wednesday on my own brokenness and sin, i realize how it is always, [...]
While I am all for drinking Guinness on St. Pat’s Day (or on any day for that matter!), I think if we raise a toast at all, we should raise it the the man himself…St. Patrick! The one who, with the power of God’s Holy Spirit, brought the hope of Christ to the celtic people, [...]
–i originally posted this on my friends new creative writing site, scribalmusings.com, so i wanted to post it here as well and let others know about his writing site. check it out and read on!–
mire – a psalm
oh god—why are you silent. where are you? have you left me?
i seek and seek and find [...]
this is a prayer from the Northumbria Community’s Celtic Daily Prayer Book:
May the Father of Life pour out His grace on you;
may you feel His hand in everything you do
and be strengthened by the things He brings you through:
this is my prayer for you.
May the Son of God be Lord in all your ways;
may He [...]
Today in the church calendar is the day of Pentecost, when after Jesus had ascended into heaven, He sent the Holy Spirit to his Apostles, birthing the Christian church’s beginning. Today we celebrate the indwelling of God, the Holy Spirit. This is a prayer for the day of Pentecost:
Holy Spirit, Lord and Giver [...]
It’s been a while since I posted anything. I’ve been struggling…pretty much with life. Life comes at you hard sometimes and often when you are taking the heat, you are sometimes at a loss for words. That seems to be where i am right now. I’m certain that soon many words [...]
This is the evening prayer from my Celtic Daily Prayer book from the Northumbria Community and I think it is a helpful and healing prayer, especially in times of trial and struggle. We used it in our Solas gathering last Sunday night and when I read it, it helps me to direct my heart [...]
Happy St. Patricks Day everyone! There are not many original writings of Patrick himself, but St. Patricks Breastplate is the most well known. It was the prayer that Patrick prayed everyday before going out to do his work. It is a very good way to start the day. Click below to [...]
The Carmina Gadelica is a collection of prayers, hymns, incantations, runes and other literary-folkloric poems and songs collected and translated by Alexander Carmichael in the gaelic-speaking regions of Scotland between 1855-1910. Here is one from that collection entitled ‘Rann Romh Urnuigh’ or “A Rune Before Prayer”. A rune, in this sense, basically means [...]
