Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, "I am not the kind of person I want to be." It must never sink into an assembly of the self-satisfied.

A little bit about the Celtic Catholic Church

To some people, Celtic Christianity is an ancient and long-dead expression of the Christian Faith. Born in the Celtic countries of Cornwall, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Man, and Brittany in the early centuries of the Christian era, it died after a few hundred golden years due to Roman religious imperialism.

To some people, the Christian Church of our Celtic ancestors is also a modern dream, an attempt to connect with the unique beauties of this ancient vision of the Faith. Feeling that tug which no one can quite put into words, and believing it to have departed this world long ago, many folk nowadays set about "re-creating" the early Celtic Church.

To others, the ancient Celtic Church is a fantasy land where any desire can be projected and validated. Some folk find reflections of whatever spirituality they think most attractive, whether Christian or Pagan in origin and feel. St. Patrick becomes a unitarian; St. Bride, a pagan goddess; St. Columba, a modern American Protestant. (This is easy, since they are not around to defend themselves.) On the other hand, some seem to pick one time period and one monastery and let that be the rigid definition of correctness, the flowering of "real" Christianity, after which everything else is nothing but decline and decay. It seems the Holy Spirit abandons his people in the eighth century!

But in the Celtic Catholic Church, we have been taught through the generations that there have been remnants of the old Church of our ancestors, remnants which, though small and sometimes persecuted and hidden for centuries, have survived almost miraculously into modern times; remnants which have existed, not as a continuing hierarchy or structure, but rather as ongoing communities of Christian people. Where two or more are gathered together....

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