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Brigid of Ireland by Cindy Thomson5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Three silences that are better than speech: silence during instruction, silence during music, silence during preaching. Three candles that illumine every darkness: truth, nature, knowledge. The Celtic Difference (faith had a monastic base)Įxamples of triads that both reflect and invite the concept of God as Trinity, some from the Yellow Book of Lecan, 14 th century:.The Spiritual Blessing of Celtic Learning.The Irish Spiritual Pilgrimage ( perigrinatio). ![]() How the Ancient Irish Found the Christian Path.Not just because she’s Irish, not just because the history is so interesting, but because she finds God in what she does, she invites us along on the ancient path. And in her last chapter, she addresses several aspects of prayer, inviting her readers to become more than a little Irish (those are my words) in their prayer life. Both the more verifiable history and numerous descriptions of wondrous, outlandish miracles by the historical figures were fascinating.Ĭindy Thomson fills the book with quotations from ancient writing, many of which are included below. But when I started reading, I kept on reading. Kind of a small coffee table book, it looked like, interspersed with beautiful photographs and illustrations. I found this at the Champaign Public Library (Dewey Decimal 274.15) right in the middle of the religion section. ![]() Celtic Wisdom: Treasures from Ireland, by Cindy Thomson, 2008 ![]()
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