Celtic art, life, myth, stories, and poetry are gloriously imaginative.

Patrick Kavanagh is one of Ireland's brilliant poets, with this poem about the meaning and power of Advent.

In Ireland, the modern pilgrim can study the birth places of Celtic Christianity.

We are deep into the Celtic season of Samhain, and the Winter's Solstice is drawing near.

What sufferings should we try to eliminate?

Suffering is the mighty crossroads at which we stand over and over again.

What is the true purpose at the heart of a pilgrimage, and why do we still go on them?

Several older traditions are reemerging into our understanding of what it means to “practice” a spiritual life.

It takes a courageous soul to let go of something that once organized life but has now become an empty experience. It is my prayer that the Celtic Christian perspective can grow in its offerings to those who have lost their way.

To revere Nature then is to be humble and care-filled in our relating to it. It is to be an awe of the Life that courses through everything.

“I can’t help but think that this child knows something very important and that he remembers something way down deep in his being.”

“Silence is not a lack of words.”

The physical world informs the inner spiritual life and therefore spirit and Nature are beautifully interwoven and inform one another.

[An} idea that my contemplative practice and my great love of flyfishing were somehow deeply connected.

Poetry

Nature reminds us, as she does every year, that the interplay between death and life is vital, regular, and right. 

Reflecting on leaves falling.

I need the wildness of nature to enliven my reading of the sacred word

I am often asked why the Celtic spiritual perspective has my attention and why I am willing to be guided by this ancient and modern tradition.

The Sacrament of Waiting by Macrina Wiederkehr