Seeking our Place of Resurrection: A Celtic Pilgrimage of Prayer

At the heart of Celtic spirituality lies a desire to find a person's "place of resurrection". For the ancient Celtic saints, this was a physical location an individual would actively seek out so they might spend the rest of their lives praising and waiting for God - it was the place from which they were to be resurrected. In our times, Celtic spiritual writers usually understand the "place of resurrection" as the situation - sometimes a location or community, but more often a social issue or problem - where an individual experiences God in a deeply personal manner calling the person to some form of service.

However we understand our "place of resurrection", seeking it out should be one of the central goals of our lives since it brings us into intimate and unique communion with God.

Weaving together a variety of spiritual writings, from ancient hymns that would have been familiar to the Celtic saints through to prayers and songs which survived the centuries in Ireland, the twenty-seven prayer sequences in Seeking our Place of Resurrection invite men and women of faith to experience God's intense love in various aspects of their lives - both spiritual and material. While each sequence stands alone as an expression of spiritual yearning, the prayers are organized into thematic clusters intended to help individuals explore different aspects of their spiritual neediness so they might recognize and accept God's loving response.

This book also includes two prayerful reviews of the day as well as instructions for praying the sequences alone or in a group, guidelines for approaching these prayers thematically, and suggestions for selecting scriptural readings or music to accompany the prayer sequences.