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  • Saint Patrick
    March 18, 2021

    Saint Patrick

    There’s a Celtic prayer perhaps as familiar and beloved as “May the Road Rise up to Meet You,” but most people don’t know its source. At some point, in some context, you’ve very likely heard these words sung or prayed: ...

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  • The life of faith
    March 16, 2021

    The life of faith

    I was named for a dead priest, my father’s uncle. Some few years after surviving the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918, he got “the call.” (“Vocations follow famine,” an Irish bromide holds. No less the flu?) He went to seminary...

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  • Vibrantly alive
    March 11, 2021

    Vibrantly alive

    People from all faiths and none at all find in the Celtic tradition an expression of spirituality deeply connected to nature and vibrantly alive—a spiritual rootedness we long for in the twenty-first century, at the same time simpler and richer. Celtic...

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