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“Therefore confess your sins one to another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed.”  James 5:16 “A person without an anamcara is like a body without a head.” Brigid Lent, which officially began this past Wednesday for the Western Church and this upcoming Wednesday for the Eastern, is a time of repentance. …

“We love God because God first loved us.”  1 John 4:19 “The object of our desire wants us even more than we want the Desired One. It is God within us that allows us to fall in love with God.”[1]  Kenneth McIntosh Pilgrimages were important, even essential for the ancient Celts.  Columba took a permanent…

“A new heart I will give you, and a new Spirit I will put within you; I will remove from your body your heart of stone, and give you a heart of flesh.” Ezekiel 36:26 “Where your treasure is there your heart will be also.”  Jesus the Christ “She gave her love to God as…

“Beloved, let us love one another; for love is from God, and everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.  The one who does not love does not know God, because God is love.”  1 John 4:7-8 “Be Thou my vision, O Lord of my heart; Naught be all else to me…

“(The Celtic Monks) practiced a ministry of presence, witnessing to the Lord not just by rushing around proselytizing and preaching, but simply by being there.”[1] Attend any mainline Christian church and it won’t take long before you hear the word “evangelism” and most likely are compelled to take part in it.  The etymology of the…

“Since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses . . .” Hebrews 12:1 “Holy angels, the citizens of the heavenly kingdom, were flying down with amazing speed, dressed in white robes, and began to gather round the holy man.  After they had conversed a little while with St. Columba, the heavenly crowd-as…

“I Am with you always . . . “  Jesus “The Celt was very much a God-intoxicated man whose life was embraced on all sides by the Divine Being.”  John Macquarrie I’ve decided to devote the next series of blogs to the topic of Celtic Spirituality.  I have made reference to it throughout my past…

“When the disciples saw Him walking on the sea they were terrified and said, ‘It is a ghost’, and they cried out in fear.” Matthew 14 “The future is a phantom seeking to spook us, the past is a ghost seeking to haunt us.”  There’s a new “Scream” movie being advertised.   It’s the fifth one…

“Didn’t you know I had to be in My Father’s House?” Jesus in Luke 2 “In My Father’s House are many rooms, I go to prepare a place for you.” Jesus in John 14 “I arise today through the whiteness of snow, the splendor of fire.” St. Patrick’s Breastplate As I write this I’m sitting…

“When they saw the star had stopped, they rejoiced with exceedingly great joy. On entering the house, they saw the child with Mary his mother; and they knelt down and worshipped him.”  The Gospel According to St. Matthew, chapter 2. “I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking.” Einstein Today…