A Canticle prayer

A Canticle prayer

Many of the prayers associated with St. Patrick have a wonderful and unique approach to prayer, faith, and the world. The following is famous one, adapted from St, Patrick’s “Breastplate Prayer” and used as part of daily morning prayer and devotion by the Northumbria Community in Scotland.

Christmas Prayers

Christmas Prayers

The ancient Celtic Christians felt keenly the importance of beginnings and endings. “Thin times,” they called them, when the barrier between the physical world and the spiritual world were thinner than usual. Christmas, when God entered the world in a unique way. The end of the year, when the planet finished one cycle and began the next. These were sacred moments, and many of the prayers reflect these concepts. Here are a three you can use for these times.

A Prayer for All Hallow’s Eve, Halloween, Samhain
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A Prayer for All Hallow’s Eve, Halloween, Samhain

From ghoulies and ghosties And long-leggedy beasties And things that go bump in the night, Good Lord, deliver us!1 In our modern culture in the West, or most of it, this night is known as Halloween, and it is largely a harmless time of dressing up and getting candy—all pushed by commercial culture. Connected with…