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978-0-86716-872-3
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Explore the Celtic tradition of prayer with
this powerful audiobook. Esther de Waal, one of Celtic Christianity’s preeminent
scholars, shows how this tradition of worship draws on both the pre-Christian past and on the fullness
of the gospel. It is also an enlightening glimpse into the history, folklore and liturgy of the Celtic
people.
Esther de Waal introduces readers to monastic prayer and praise (the foundation stone of Celtic Christianity),
early Irish litanies, medieval Welsh praise poems and the wealth of blessings derived from an oral
tradition that made prayer a part of daily life. Through this invigorating book, readers enter a world
in which ritual and rhythm, nature and seasons, images and symbols play an essential role. A welcome
contrast to modern worship, Celtic prayer is liberating and, like a living spring, forever fresh. Unabridged
audiobook.
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The Celtic Way of Prayer
The Recovery of the Religious Imagination
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Esther de Waal; read by Mary Ellen O'Brien
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“Historian and retreat leader de Waal explores the rich legacy of Celtic songs, poems, prayers
and blessings that grew out of the dynamic meeting of Christian monasticism with an older, communal
way of life ordered by kinship, a rural sense of place, the pattern of the seasons, and the cycles
of birth and death. The author does a fine job tracing the strands that make Celtic Christianity compelling
and unique. An important addition to Celtic literature for both general readers and specialists.” —Library
Journal
“What Esther has written is superb, because the combination of Esther's own spirituality and
early Celtic spirituality is bound to be superb....I have read every word slowly, carefully, enjoying,
being nourished. It isn’t just that Celtic spirituality with its loving immediacy is appealing,
it is that it is necessary at this time of violence and indifference and greed in the Western world.
It can, indeed, be our salvation.” —Madeleine L’Engle
“In this beautiful book, retreat leader [Esther] de Waal recovers the spirituality of Celtic
religion and integrates it into a kind of guidebook. Through Celtic poems, songs, Irish litanies and
medieval praise poems, de Waal conducts the reader on what she calls a peregrinatio or
journey into prayer. Believing that the metaphor of a journey comes closest both to the Celtic way
of prayer and to our contemporary description of seeking spirituality, de Waal traverses what she calls
the ‘common realities of life: time, presence, solitariness, dark forces’ to demonstrate
how prayer may be integrated into the fabric of daily life.” —Publishers Weekly
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