Amy Boucher Pye

Tag: Celtic prayer

  • “God to Enfold Me” – an ancient Celtic prayer

    I love Celtic-flavored prayers; the repetition and poetry is beautiful helps me connect to God. Here’s one about the enfolding love of God, which I invite you to ponder and prayer through:

    Carmina Gadelica III, p. 53, in David Adam, The Path of Life: Meditations on prayers from the Celtic tradition (London: SPCK, 2009), p. 85.

    God to enfold me,

    God to surround me,

    God in my speaking,

    God in my thinking.

    God in my sleeping,

    God in my waking,

    God in my watching,

    God in my hoping.

    God in my life,

    God in my lips,

    God in my soul,

    God in my heart.

    God in my sufficing,

    God in my slumber,

    God in mine ever-living soul,

    God in mine eternity.

  • God is with you

    Join me in practicing the presence of God on the beautiful shores of the island of Iona, in the inner Hebrides in Scotland. God loves when we welcome his presence in our lives – he’s always there with us!

    In the video I share this gorgeous Celtic prayer, as collected in the Carmina Gadelica:

    Come I this day to the Father,
    Come I this day to the Son,
    Come I this day to the Holy Spirit powerful:
    I come this day with God,
    I come this day with Christ,
    I come this day with the Spirit of kindly balm.

    God, and Spirit, and Jesus,
    From the crown of my head
    To the soles of my feet;
    Come I with my reputation,
    Come I with my testimony,
    Come I to Thee, Jesu – Jesu, shelter me.

    (Carmina Gadelica I, p. 69)

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