A Christmas time prayer
A Celtic prayer for the Christmas season. From Celtic daily prayer, by the Northumbria community.
Meditatio de Pater Noster: A Prayer in the Celtic Tradition
This prayer, written by Mark McDowell, is an expanded reflection of the Lord’s Prayer from Matthew 6, in the form of a psalm and prayer in the Celtic tradition.
An ancient prayer of praise from First Clement
The generation of church leaders after the Apostles also wrote many letters. Here is a praise prayer from First Clement, written in the mid-90’s AD. How can we use this in our prayers?
A Prayer by St. Columba
A brief prayer and suggestion for use by Saint Columba from the sixth century.
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
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
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…
Sincere Prayer (The Cowherd and the Sage)
A story about prayer, a cowherd, and a Jewish sage, reaching us that prayer is more about relationship than duty.
The Kaddish (The Mourner’s Prayer)
The “Kaddish” is an ancient Jewish prayer, going back at least to the 13th century. It is a prayer of praise, often used in worship services, usually as a responsive prayer between a speaker and the congregation. But it is most well-known for its use in the mourning ritual. It is usually recited three times…