I want to be like St. Patrick,
climb the holy mountain full of
promise and direction and knowing,
forty days of fasting aloft among clouds
until my body no longer hungers
and something inside is satisfied
and my restless heart says here,
no longer dreaming of other peaks.
—Dreaming of Stones, Christine Valters Paintner
The poems in Dreaming of Stones are about what endures: hope and desire, changing seasons, wild places, love, and the wisdom of mystics. Inspired b...
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People from all faiths and none at all find in the Celtic tradition an expression of spirituality deeply connected to nature, and vibrantly alive —...
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Patrick of Ireland lived a Christian life beyond the ordinary – that’s why we call him a saint. But Jamie Arpin-Ricci contends that, although St. P...
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A deeply poignant, transcendent tale of life redeemed through death.For generations Aideen Callaghan’s ancestors were miraculously cured of cancer ...
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Argyle eased the warm loaf right and left and downed swift gulps of beer and venial sin then lit into the bread now leavened with the corpse’s ca...
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Explore Patrick’s place in history, the spread of Christianity beyond the Roman Empire, how Patrick first came to Ireland, the influence of the ea...
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A beautiful collection of Irish prayers, blessings and poems from Esther De Waal From birth to death, from dawn to dusk, from the dark of winter ...
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Rent for 24 hoursPoet and Benedictine oblate Christine Valters Paintner writes with a contemplative heart about kinship with nature, ancestral conn...
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Rent for 2 weeksPoet and Benedictine oblate Christine Valters Paintner writes with a contemplative heart about kinship with nature, ancestral conne...
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