Bless to Me This Day: Celtic Prayers for Daily Living

When I was a young mom, seminarian, wife and chaplain, I had a hard time figuring out how to have time to pray. Then in 1986, a dear friend of mine gave me a little book titled Threshold of Light (published in the USA under the title Daily Prayers and Readings in the Celtic Tradition). Within those pages, I found a daily rota of prayers which attended to the minutiae of daily living. I began to explore further, and found that this tradition is one that constantly weaves together what we do in our daily rounds with an loving awareness of God’s presence. I began to adapt the prayers for use when I cooked breakfast or folded laundry, when I put my boys to sleep or played with our cats.

During our time together, we will learn a bit about this Celtic Christian tradition of praying and living. We…