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The Royal Way
The Queen, working selflessly until two days before her death, is risen. She calls us to walk the royal path of humble service, to foster a world-wide commonwealth of peoples, to be renewed through the living springs of faith, to be prejudice free, to speak wisely mindful of others, to...
From The Tay To The Thames, Iceland And Australia!
Twelve people joined in the Aidan and Hilda Week retreat on Holy Island which ended on Saturday. I slept in the spare room at The Whitehouse.
Scott Brennan has recorded the talks on the Saints from the Tay to the Thames and pasted the link on his Facebook. There were 80...
When We Are Tested
This week my wifi has broken down, I have been to hospital for tests, and my doctor wants to check whether I have cancer of the kidneys.
In old age many people lose faculties, loved ones or earthly securities. Many younger people lose limbs, jobs, family members or homelands. Now...
Songs Of The Way
I have sent a prayer tweet most days for the last twelve years. A recent post got more 'likes' than any other. Here it is:Â
Ray Simpson
@praycelticdaily
May our political leaders be quiet in spirit, clear in judgement, and mindful of the needy. May they unite the families of nations...
Celtic From Outdoors
The latest A Rocha Newsletter has this piece:
'Celtic Christian theology has a strong creation focus and an ecological dimension to faith and practice. This has become more enunciated in recent years in response to the environmental crisis.
Ray Simpson in Celtic Christianity and Climate Crisis:Twelve Keys for the Future of the...
Celtic Prayers For Praying The Hours
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The introduction to this new book states that early followers of the Way in the Roman Empire and in Celtic lands followed the flow of the Roman workday: bells began the working day at six in the morning, sounded a mid-morning break at nine, rang again for...
God's Water From Wales
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'Dust off our Welsh saints: they are keys to our future' Rowan Williams told Brother Gildas of Caldey Abbey. This week I visited married monk Simon Jones, his wife Natalie and their four year old son Samuel who have moved to Ruthin, in Wales' Vale of Clywd and...
Pilgrimage Revival Talk
Over the first two week-ends of July churches celebrated a major revival  of pilgrimage to Norway'western fjord village of Selje. They included the Lutheran Church of Norway, Catholics, Orthodox and Pentecostals. I gave two talks to a hotel conference organised by the commune's new Pilgrim Centre, attended by...
Speaking Tour Of Norway - Selje Awakes
My sister Sally and I will be in Norway until July 11 and will post no further blogs.
The tour host is Mecky Wohlenburg
 We spend two nights at Lia gard retreat centre, during a families and creativity retreat, and I speak at Sandon Retreat Centre on Celtic Christianity, Iona and...
Corruption
While I was on welcomer duty at Berwick’s The Guard, I read a booklet entitled ‘Berwick’s Most Scandalous Elections’. The trouble in those days was that candidates bribed electors.
There is more in the Bible about justice than almost any other subject. Moses built a just society based on The...
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