In the Coracle

A Celtic Creed

May 18th, 2009, 1 Comment

We believe in God above us,
maker and sustainer of all life,
of sun and moon, of water and earth,
of male and female.

We believe in God beside us,
Jesus Christ, the word made flesh,
born of a woman, servant of the poor,
tortured and nailed to a tree.

A man of sorrows, he died forseaken.
He descendend into the earth
to the place [...]

To think about, amidst the discussion of solitude and silence here lately

April 9th, 2009, No Comments

“If I could live in a tiny dwelling on a rock in the ocean, surrounded by the waves of the sea and cut off from the sight and sound of everything else, I would still not be free of the cares of this passing world, or from the fear that somehow the love of money [...]

A Celtic Prayer for a Musician (by Christine Sine)

March 19th, 2009, 1 Comment

I’m selling a guitar and the new buyer is a 15-year-old who was inspired to learn the instrument at church camp last summer. Over Twitter, I asked the lovely and wise Christine Sine to help me with a Celtic blessing to send along with the guitar when pack it for shipment tonight. Her response was [...]

Being Church, Doing Church, and the fall of Empire (Urban Iona Part 5)

November 22nd, 2008, No Comments

Continuing the series of digging into Kurt Neilson’s book, Urban Iona.
From chapter 20:

A great deal of talk and writing goes into diagnosing why many ways of “being church” and “doing church” either don’t work anymore, or even if they work the result looks and feels more like American culture than it does the radical values [...]

Fun Aside (Urban Iona)

November 21st, 2008, No Comments

Continuing the series of digging into Kurt Neilson’s book, Urban Iona. Here is more proof that Kurt Neilson is in fact one of the voices in my head :-):

For all my prattling about the Celts, there is a Benedictine part of my soul as well – I co-founded a clergy group covenanted to an adaptation [...]

The Attraction of Monasticism: Urban Iona Quotes, Part 2

November 21st, 2008, No Comments

Continuing the series of digging into Kurt Neilson’s book, Urban Iona.
In Chapter 5, Neilson writes about his experience as a Catholic anda former member of the Claretian missionary order.

As I sought community, the ideal of a common project of life, a common vision, and living it out day to day together with others spoke to [...]

Choice Quotes about Celtic Monasticism and Celtic Spirituality – Part 1

November 21st, 2008, No Comments

Earlier this week I wrote an entry recommending “Urban Iona: Celtic Hospitality in the City” (Kurt Neilson) . I did lots of highlightiing and notetaking in this book, which looks dog-eared already even though it’s only been through one read with me. I’m hard on books I guess :-).
In this post, I want to share [...]

St. Patrick’s Breastplate Wordle

October 15th, 2008, 2 Comments

I’ve blogged before about the prayer known as St. Patrick’s Breastplate or Patrick’s Lorica. Here’s the text of this lovely piece of spirituality.
Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. The bigger a [...]