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Celebrating Nine Years of
The Celtic Eucharist at All Saints Parish

WELCOME to the Celtic Spirituality page
Here you will find information about the Celtic Holy Eucharist at All Saints Parish
and learn about the Celtic spiritual tradition.

Celtic Holy Eucharist

(Communion Service with Celtic music and prayers)
is celebrated every Saturday at 5:00 p.m.
and every Wednesday at 6:15 p.m.

ALL ARE WELCOME!

Celtic Potluck! The next potluck social hour is May 10 after the 5:00 pm
service. Please bring something to share. For information, contact Jane at 617-713-0303.

 

Celtic Cross Features of Celtic Christianity:

  • Love of nature and a passion for the wild and elemental as a reminder of God's gift.
  • Love and respect for art and poetry.
  • Love and respect for the great stories and "higher learning"
  • Sense of God and the saints as a continuing, personal, helpful presence.
  • Theologically orthodox, yet with heavy emphasis on the Trinity, and a love and respect for Mary, the Incarnation of Christ, and Liturgy.
  • Thin boundaries between the sacred and the secular.
  • Unique Church structure: there were originally no towns, just nomadic settlements, hence the church was more monastic rather than diocesan, resulting in quite independent rules and liturgies.
  • Ireland was very isolated; it was hard to impose outside central Roman authority.
  • Influenced much by middle-eastern and Coptic monasticism.
  • Used the ancient calendar system for celebrating Easter and Lent.
  • Abbots had more power than the bishops.
  • Monasteries were often huge theocratic villages often associated with a clan with the same kinship ties, along with slaves, freemen, celibate monks, married clergy, professed lay people, men and women living side by side.
  • While some monasteries were in isolated places, many more were at the crossroads of provincial territories.
  • Women had more equal footing in ancient Irish law, thus had more equal say in church government.
  • Developed the idea of having a "soul friend" (anmchara) to help in spiritual direction.
  • Invented personal confession.
  • Oral word-based culture; most of the people were illiterate but had great memorization skills. They loved to hear great stories.
  • A sense of closeness and immanence between the natural and supernatural.
  • A mandate for hospitality.
  • Emphasis on family and kinship ties.

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Learn more about the Celtic tradition:

The Celtic Cross
The Celtic Wheel of the Year
The Feast of Samhain/Celtic New Year - October 31
Spring Equinox - March 21
Beltane - May 1
Lughnasa - August 1
Festival of Marymass - August 15
Casting a Caim
Read a poem about Pangur Bán, the most famous cat in early Ireland.

Say a Celtic Prayer (or two):

A Litany of Saints
An Invocation of Celtic Saints
Deep Peace
May God give blessing to the house that is here
Christ in a Stranger's Guise
The Prayer of St. Columba
I draw to myself today ...
Celtic Blessings

Read about Celtic Saints:

Litany of Celtic Saints
St. Geneviève - January 3
St. Ita - January 15
St. Cadoc - January 24
St. Brigid - February 1
St. Mel - February 6
St. Valentine - February 14
St. Colman - February 18
St. David of Wales - March 1
St. Patrick, Apostle of Ireland - March 17
St. Cuthbert - March 20
St. Egbert - April 24
St. John of Beverley - May 7
St. Brendan the Navigator - May 16
St. Bede the Venerable of Jarrow - May 25
St. Columba of Iona - June 9
St. Kilian - July 8
St. Aidan - Spiritual Giving and the power of generosity - August 31
St. Francis of Assisi - October 4
St. Martin of Tours - November 11
St. Hilda - November 17
St. Columbanus - November 23
St. Finian - December 12

Listen to Celtic music:

Click here to hear more Celtic music

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Celtic Ring

 

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