From Mount Athos to Celtic Orthodoxy: Restoring Daily Scripture Teaching in the Orthodox Church The daily reading of Holy Scripture remains at the heart of Orthodox monastic life on Mount Athos. Across the Orthodox world, one of the most beautiful signs of renewal is the return to daily Scripture teaching. Not merely occasional sermons, not […]
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Celtic Orthodox Rules of the Culdees: Monastic Life of the Early Church Fathers
Celtic Orthodox Rules of the Culdees The Celtic Orthodox Rules of the Culdees preserve one of the most ancient streams of Western Orthodox Christian discipline: prayer, work, fasting, sacred study, charity, obedience, Sabbath reverence, and the ordered life of the Church. These early Culdee Fathers and Celtic Orthodox Church Fathers show that the Celtic Church […]
The Rule of St Columba
The Rule of Saint Columba (Columcille) Rule of Saint Columba (Columcille), the Abbot of Iona, dates from the 6th century and forms the spiritual basis for the Order of Saint Columcille and the Crane Abbey. Be alone in a separate place near a chief city, if thy conscience is not prepared to be in […]
Monastic Rule of Columbanus
On Celtic Married Clergy and Monastics
On Celtic Married Clergy and Monastics Culdees’ Abbots, Priests, Monks and even Nuns were married. They performed religious services in accordance with norms of the ritual purity as found in the Scripture as it has to do with performing ceremonies. by Rev Dr Stephen MK Brunswick TABLE OF CONTENTS – FOREWORD – – OUR HISTORICAL […]





