Mass in Jig Minor
I’ve been corresponding with a priest of the Celtic Christian Church about the relationship between mainstream Christian mysticism (of the Neoplatonic/Benedictine/Carmelite variety) and the indigenous spirituality of the Celtic lands. It’s been a great little conversation so far, and hopefully it will provide grist for the future blogging mill. But for now, I just want to share a little daydream I indulged in before mass this evening:
Imagine, if you will, a faith community centered on the Celtic tradition. Celtic spirituality is by nature earthy, joyful, optimistic, humorous, and — at least at times — raucous and rowdy, if not downright ecstatic. (more…)
Quote for the Day
Julian [of Norwich] is without doubt one of the most wonderful of all Christian voices. She gets greater and greater in my eyes as I grow older, and whereas in the old days I used to be crazy about St. John of the Cross, I would not exchange him now for Julian if you gave me the world and the Indies and all the Spanish mystics rolled up in one bundle. I think that Julian of Norwich is with Newman the greatest English theologian.”
— Thomas Merton, quoted in With Pity Not With Blame:
The Spirituality of Julian of Norwich and The Cloud
of Unknowing for Today by Robert Llewelyn
