The Celtic Way Of Prayer

The Recovery of the Religious Imagination.

To recover our Celtic roots is to reclaim a forgotten heritage, one that will deepen our prayer and enlarge our vision. Here is a book that shows how the Celtic way of praying drew upon its pre-Christian past as well as on the fullness of the Gospel, and how it touched not only the mind but also the heart and the imagination. Here is prayer with the whole of one's being.

Drawing on material that is not easily available to the ordinary reader, Esther de Waal unlocks a treasury that will startle with its power and originality. The reader is introduced to early Irish litanies, to medieval Welsh praise poems, to the wealth of blessings that come from the oral tradition to make praying a part of daily living. All of this is not a dead tradition but a living source and spring, at the same time ancient and new.