Die historische keltische Kirche und die heutige orthodoxe Kirche der Culdees

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In the Scoti-Monasticon it quotes Boece (circa 1530) that “the term Culdee originally denoted monks, but up to his time was applied to all priests.”
Dr Wylie In his “History of Scotland” said: 
“It was the Culdee lamp that burned at Constance,
at Basle, at Ypres, at Worms and Mainz. Boniface, the emissary of
Rome, came afterwards to put out these lights. The real apostle
of the provinces was the Culdee Church.”
 
The subject of Celtic Church itself is a vast area of interest around the world. Tens of thousands of inspiring articles and pages circulate on the internet just as it relates things “Celtic”. Many of these articles, as it relates to the Celtic Church, are on our website www.CelticOrthodoxy.com.
Most agree that the earliest Christian priests of the Celtic lands were called Culdees. In most recent years still the estates of Culdees passed to our House of O’Neill heirs whether in Scotland, Ireland or abroad. Culdees (whether in name or spirit) continue on as part of the structure various Cathedral and Monastical establishments. Although typically a Prior or Abbot of the Culdees are Independent, answerable to no jurisdiction, the secular laws protected the property handing down to hereditary heirs (as per Jaimeson’s and other historical works document). Finally Bishop Ussher the Anglican Primate of Ireland, Archbishop of Armagh, under British Royal Decree to reinstate all Culdees, documented their graves and names of buildings, and Streets surrounding his Patriarchate. Although many died in the wars of resistance, he gained a compromise from the Chief of the O’Neills. All the Culdee hereditary institutions were then recognized to be within the lawful possession of the Irish Primate of the Orthodox British.
Ever since, the Culdee continue on at least as Priors/Teachers and Choir. At Armagh the Priors often raised to the highest rank in the church, or held influence of every stature of the land. So the Culdees would remain within the hidden intrigue of what it means to be “Celtic” as felt around the world.
 

Ireland was named Brittanis (Little Britain) by Julius Caesar. The name stuck for a while, and was used by Ptolemy and even by the English. The  people of Ireland are tribally called “Scots”. Hibernia itself, like the word Britain are Hebrew words having to do with being a covenant tribe of Israel. Britain means Covenant People in Hebrew. Hibernia (the main name of Ireland) means Hebrew.

 
Although the protections of our church were more wide ranging in ancient times, still we have sovereign protections (through various means) continuing today for our Orthodox Celtic ethnic minority communities. While our identity and culture is strongly attacked, God has provided us ways forward.
 
The rank of our church (for example at Glastonbury, where Armagh Primates traditionally retired) has remained an institution comparable to Constantinople (or higher) for the true Orthodox world. It was four times larger, and had many more Apostles and Saints buried there. Long before the Great Schism our British(Celtic) Abbots and Bishops would freely consecrate, co-consecrate and receive consecrations from other jurisdictions such as the Patriarchates of Jerusalem and Constantinople (as one church). Till the last few centuries, the Black Friar communities of Armagh Ireland (Hereditary Coarbs), as protected by the O’Neills, were an example of the continuity of Culdee independence. Today’s thriving order of Benedictine monks (which merged with Culdees long ago) are another example of how an order who existed before the great schism, continues today as being wholly Orthodox in the West. Culdees typically hold more orthodox compliancy credentials than typical orthodox. 
 
Our unbroken succession of priests (within numerous orders) as Culdee priests, continue in unbroken traditions of the Celtic First Century church, as affirmed in official celebrations of our Celtic Saints around the world. Iona Scotland and Glastonbury England, as well as the numerous institutes listed in the Welsh Pedigrees of Saints, are other examples of our continuity from the original Israelite Apostles. The most inspiring official documentaries on lives of the Celtic Saints, demonstrate the enduring nature and strength of our Independent Celtic church of the Culdees that permeated in every age and is within our BCP liturgy and practices today. 
 
All of England celebrates King Arthur’s burial place at the Culdees’ Glastonbury Abbey. We also celebrate Emperor Constantine’s Maternal Grandfather King Cole buried at Glastonbury. These had founded a long line of our Celtic Kings who continued to defend our church independence, as unto this present day. Several Irish Coarbs of Armagh (the Primates of the Irish church) would hand it off to one of their family heirs, and leave Ireland to finish their ministries as Abbots of the Glastonbury Abbey. Finally the Saxon Kings were some of the greatest protectors of Glastonbury Abbey where it remained in greater size (and arguably more visited and in more grandeur than) Constantinople’s Cathedral. It remained regarded as such by the West at least until it’s destruction by King Henry VIII, and the successors built a new Glastonbury in America at the height of American Christian governance.
 

There are many well known leaders of our early schools, such as Saint Patrick and Saint Columba, and even Christ’s Uncle Joseph of Arimathea, und andere Heilige des ersten Jahrhunderts, die Großbritannien führten, like St. Aristobulus, St. Andrew, St. Paul, and St. Philip [some of the most ancient forefathers of the Celtic Orthodox Church]. We have a list of nearly 1,000 more Celtic British Saints who led the church centuries before the Roman Saxon St. Augustine came to England.

It was recorded before Augustine came, St Columba had Saxons in his school at Iona, namely Genereus and Pilu as recorded by Adamnan. The Culdees weren’t exclusive to themselves, but had set up great missions to Europe(ie Luxeuil and St Gall and 83 other major establishments). The Roman historian Bede  had also praised the Celts’ outreach and integration of their neighboring kindred tribes

Our Culdean Saint Cummian, who lived a few years after Columbanus, wrote: “What can be deemed worse of a Mother Church than that we should say: Rome goes astray, Jerusalem goes astray, Antioch goes astray, only the Irish and Britons know what is right.” (Cummian, Ad Segienum, Huensen Abbatem.)

On the Continent numerous of our Early Culdean Saints are honored:

150 early Culdee Missionaries are honored in Germany, 45 in France, 30 in Belgium, 13 in Italy, 8 in in Norway and Iceland, to say nothing of other places and Saints of whom mention is made in the British Martyrology.
In the early period of the church, the Culdees are renown for having already founded 12 monasteries in England, 13 in Scotland, 7 in France, 16 in Bavaria, 15 in Rhoetia, Germany and Switzerland, 10 in Alsace, 7 in Lorraine, 12 in Armorica and 6 in Italy.

This church and the many Saints have brought us all much encouragement and inspiration in Christ. Most of all we see what a wonderful God we serve, that our God, the God of Israel, is a true and living God who honors His covenants with His bride called Christian Israel.

Lesen Sie mehr über die kurze Geschichte der keltischen Kuldischen Kirche und unserer Wiederherstellung.

Im folgenden Abschnitt erfahren Sie mehr über die grundlegenden Aspekte der keltischen Kirche.

It was actually from the time of Jeremiah the Prophet that the Irish Celtic church began to take hold. His dated grave remains part of the history of Ireland today. He had successfully transplanted the Kingdom of Israel to the British Isles, just as God had foretold to him. David’s literal throne is a part of Irish, Scottish and English history that is known as the stone of scone. The many Hebrew practices remaining so long in the Celtic lands bears witness to this Israelite heritage. – His Eminence ++ Rev Dr. Stephen M.K. Brunswick ThD, PhD, Primace, OCC.

Hier eine kurze Auswahl aus den Lehrartikeln unserer kuldischen (hebräisch-keltischen) Kirche:

  1. Über unsere Kirche:
    1. Kurze Geschichte der orthodoxen Kirche der Culdees (keltisch)
    2. Nachfolge unseres Buches des gemeinsamen Gebets, unserer primären Liturgie
  2. Auf dem keltischen Kalender / Feste:
    1. Honoring of the Sabbath in the Historic Orthodox Church, by Rev Dr Stephen MK Brunswick, ThD, PhD, Primace, OCC.
    2. "The Celtic Church in Britain" von Leslie Hardinge.
    3. Columbanus und die keltische Kirche, Quartodeciman (Nisan 14-20) Einhaltung von Ostern / Passah
    4. TABERNACLES (EHER ALS 25. DEZEMBER) war bei Christen in allen orthodoxen Gebieten sehr beliebt
  3. Über die keltischen Traditionen:
    1. “Truth Trumphant” (Free PDF Book) by Wilkinson, indepth chapters on the Celtic / Gallican church, especially the Waldensians, holding to the Israelite doctrines, Sabbath etc.
    2. “The Liturgy and Ritual of the Celtic Church”(Free PDF Book) By F. E. Warren
    3. “ECCLESIASTICAL ANTIQUITIES OF THE CYMRY” or the Ancient British Church, its History, Doctrine and Rites (Free PDF Book).
    4. “Ireland and the Celtic Church”(Free PDF Book) by George Thomas Stokes Pub 1892
    5. Ehrung von St. Gallen und St. Othmar in der orthodoxen Kirche der Culdees
    6. Wir feiern den Heiligen Eadbert, Bischof von Lindisfarne
    7. PDF book: Saints of Wales, Cornwall and Irish Saints with Dedications in Britain, from “The Lives of the British Saints” vol 2
    8. Festtag des heiligen Colman, ein weiterer starker Zeuge für den orthodoxen christlichen und hebräischen Kalender
    9. HALLOWEDEVE (HEILIGER ABEND, 31. OKTOBER) IST EIN CHRISTLICHER URLAUB, DER WELTWEIT VON ORTHODOX GEFEIERT WIRD

    10. Biblische Kunstwerke werden von Gott für Kirchen geboten
  4. Über unser altes Erbe:
    1. St Elfan Avalonius, 2nd Century Welsh Saint, comm. January 1st and Sept 26
    2. Triads of Wales – OCC E-Book Library Content
    3. Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland by the Four Masters, Online and Print Versions
    4. Amra Of St Columba – 6th Century Poem on Life of Columba, an Early Culdee Church Father
    5. Remembering Saint Margaret, the Saxon Queen of Scotland Who Revolutionized our Church, demoted our Culdees and added Sunday worship services
    6. Die Jerusalemer Kirche zog nach Großbritannien und der Apostolische Stuhl von Glastonbury, später das „zweite Rom“ genannt. Viele britische Heilige des 1. bis 2. Jahrhunderts bestätigen dies, siehe beigefügtes PDF der Heiligen
    7. The Early British Church, from “Celt, Druid and Culdee” by Elder
    8. Judah’s Scepter and Joseph’s Birthright (Celtic British Israel Book)
    9. Zahlreiche alte Manuskripte, die den heiligen Josef (vom Sanhedrin) bestätigen, gründeten 36 n. Chr. Das britische hebräische Priestertum in Glastonbury
    10. "Spread of the Culdean Church", freies Kapitel aus "History of the Scottish Nation" oder "The History of the Celtic Church" (alle drei Bände): Geschichte der Zivilisation von der Vorgeschichte bis zum Mittelalter.
    11. “Irish Saints in Great Britain”(Free PDF Book) by Rev Dr Moran, Dublin 1879
    12. “The Early Scottish Church – Ecclesiastical History of Scotland”(Free PDF Book) by McLaughlin, Edinburg 1865
    13. DIE IRISCHEN PAPSTKÖNIGE waren früher die Herrscher Großbritanniens
    14. Kostenloses Kapitel aus dem Buch „Celt, Druid and Culdee“
    15. Hebräische keltische Ursprünge der christlichen Kirche
    16. Die Erklärung von Arbroath, Beweis, dass die Schotten Israeliten aus „Greater Scythia“ sind
    17. Affinity Between the Hebrew and Celtic Languages (AKA Races)
    18. Die Reise des Heiligen Brendan (der Culdee) nach Amerika im 6. Jahrhundert
  5. Über die hebräische Reinheit in der Kirche:
    1. Ernährungsgesetze in der orthodoxen keltischen Kirche
    2. Married Abbots. The Culdees Required Abbots, Priests, Monks and even Nuns to be married in purity and with periods of separation for their courses of services

  6. Zur althebräischen (christlichen) Liturgie in der Kirche:

    1. The Orthodox Order of the Culdees, the Rule of St Maelruan +792AD
    2. Nachfolge unseres Buches des gemeinsamen Gebets, unserer primären Liturgie
    3. Daily Hours Liturgy. English Orthodox Private Devotions For the Hours of Prayer, as Authorized in 1560, added footnotes of Scripture and Church Fathers in 1626
    4. Liturgisches BCP-Gebet, „THE SHAMA“ Ein Gebet der Christenheit und der Culdees wurde von 450 v. Chr. bis heute bestätigt

    5. Das (Apostles’ Didascalia) and ancient Amidah Prayers skizzieren Sie viele unserer bestehenden Gebetsdienste der Christenheit.

    6. Das First Century “Didache” (incl. missing translation and verses) as accepted by the Culdee, and greater fellowship of churches. 

    7. Missing Verses from the Didache on Communion with Incense. Also see Sarum Missal and Apostles Didascalia for confirmation.

    8. Das Sarum Missal (Our BCP is rooted in Sarum) for reference

Ein Buch, das wir sehr empfehlen, ist "The Celtic Church in Britain" von Leslie Hardinge.

 

Es enthält eine Vielzahl von Beweisen dafür, dass die keltische Kirche die Ernährungsgesetze, die Feste und die Sabbate eingehalten hat.

Die keltische Kirche war hebräisch und orthodox

Die keltische Kirche, die Irland, Schottland und Großbritannien besetzte, hatte die syrischen (byzantinischen) Schriften anstelle der lateinischen Vulgata von Rom. Die keltische Kirche mit den Waldensern und dem östlichen Reich hielt den Sabbat des siebten Tages.
 
Die Hunderte von orthodoxen Heiligen vor dem Schisma in Großbritannien geben das stärkste Zeugnis dieser Tatsachen. Today the Eastern churches still venerate most of these. For Britain alone we have cataloged 130 official Saints of Britain who pre-dated Augustine. When counting all the Celtic lands that number is over 1,000 pre-Augustine Celtic Saints. An example of the most popular pre-schism Orthodox Saints of England can be found online on such sites as: http://www.oodegr.co/english/istorika/britain/British_Saints.htm.
 

Hebräisches keltisches Gesetz

 Die keltische Kirche verwendete nicht nur eine syrisch-byzantinische Bibel, sondern sie war auch erfolgreicher darin, das gesamte Gesetz von YAHWEH zu schützen.
 
Ein Beispiel für das hebräische keltische Gesetz ist der Lieber ex Lege Moisi.
Der Liber ex Lege Moisi wurde von Saint Patrick und seinen Nachfolgern in jeder keltischen Kirche verteilt, ob in England, Schottland oder Irland.
 
Inhaltsübersicht:
1. Der Sabbat am siebten Tag.
2. Sklaverei und das Verhältnis des Meisters zu den Dienern
3. Verschiedene Kapitalverstöße.
4. Entschädigung in Form von „Art“ für verschiedene Verbrechen.
5. Straftaten von Tieren gegen Person und Eigentum.
6. Tiere, die als Nahrung verwendet werden, sauber und unrein sind und geschlachtet werden.
7. Sex und Ehe.
8. Frauenhygiene.
9. Zehnten, Erstlinge, Gelübde und Opfergaben aller Art.
10. Gerechtigkeit, Bestechung, Zeugen, Handel und Wucher.
11. Städte der Zuflucht, des Asyls und der Gastfreundschaft.
12. Zauberer und Nekromantie und Menschenopfer.
13. Erbschaft und die Sabbat- und Jubiläumsjahre, Schulden.
14. Anblicke eines wahren Propheten.
15. Fluchen und Segen.
 
Dies bildete die Grundlage des Glaubens der keltischen Christen.
 
Die Vorschriften von Adamnan akzeptierten, dass Menschen das unreine Schwein essen konnten, aber nicht, wenn es zu fett war. Die Schweine müssen mager sein.
Die Ernährungsgewohnheiten von Columba wurden eindeutig als Verzicht auf Fleisch und Bier beschrieben. (Siehe "Altirisches Leben von Columba" oder "Amhra Chulimb Chille".)
 

 

We are the ancient British Orthodox and Celtic church of God. We are Anglican Orthodox, as under bishops in canonical succession within our communion. If you’d like to learn more about our Anglo Celtic faith, write to marshalofsalem@yahoo.com

Der Einfachheit halber nennen wir uns das Culdees 'Kircheoder orthodoxe Kirche der Culdees. Erwägen Sie, sich uns anzuschließen. 

Jes 58:12 Und diejenigen, die von dir sein werden, werden die alten Brachflächen bauen. Du sollst die Fundamente vieler Generationen errichten. und du sollst gerufen werden: Der Reparaturmann der Bresche, der Wiederhersteller der Wege, auf denen du wohnen sollst.

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