yves:
Is anyone familiar with “Celtic spirituality?” Can you offer comments, recommend a website or perhaps a good, Catholic book of Irish prayers and blessings and/or one about Celtic spirituality? God bless.
Dear Yves,
There is such a huge amount of material these days. It pays to be selective or you can pay out a small fortune and find you have purchased questionable new agey material.
I would recommend Esther de Waal’s
“Every Earthly Blessing: Rediscovering the Celtic Tradition” as a starting point.
Also you may like
"Irish Catholic Spirituality-Celtic and Roman"
John J O Ríordáin CSsR Price: IEP7.99
John J O Ríordáin traces the fortunes of Irish Catholic Spirituality
from its Celtic origins, through the reforms of the late medieval
period, the influences of the Reformation, and the dramatic and
traumatic nineteenth-century changes which revolutionised and, in many ways, vandalised the traditional Irish approach to God. He highlightssome of the early Celtic influences in contemporary Irish spirituality and considers the future of the church. ‘When the church is seen as institution only, it is difficult for people on the margins who are more attuned to traditional faith-ways to maintain comfortable links with it. Too often church membership and practice is reduced to being ‘all in’ or ‘all out’. At her wise and generous best, the church has always been relaxed about her boundaries.’
The Link for this book is 2 yards long
cathedralbooks.ie/cathedralbooks/flat_searcher_with_sectionEQLCeltic_StudiesAMPareaEQLrev_sectionAMPentryEQL1856072436_entry.html
It may be easier to find it via the web site below
Available from CATHEDRAL BOOKS
4 Sackville Place, Dublin 1, Ireland
Tel: +353 1 874 5284 Fax: +353 1 878 7704.
cathedralbooks.ie
email:
cathedra@indigo.ie cathedral @ indigo.ie
“I am reading about Celtic monasticism, the hermits, the lyric poets, the pilgrims . . . . a whole new world that has waited until now to open up for me…”
~ Thomas Merton
