A beautiful sharing of an extended version of Kate Tristram’s ‘In the Shadow of Aidan’ from Celtic Daily Prayer Book One (Aidan: September readings), as part of a livestream from Holy Island on St Aidan’s Day – 31st August 2023.
For those of you still wishing to catch up with our Easter talks, liturgies and livestreams, please find them on Youtube in the playlist above. Our main Easter hub is HERE.
Sarah Pillar explores the theme of what it is to sing the Lord’s song in a strange land? How can you keep hope when ‘Home’ has changed? When the political and economic situation and the state of the planet is in crisis? How might we remain faithful in our ‘moveable tent’? What would it mean […]
On this Holy Saturday, join Dan Hazen, long-time Companion from Marysville US, as he reflects on a profound experience he had on a hike into the mountains. More resources for Holy Saturday can be found HERE.
This Good Friday, Sarah Hay explores the theme of how we can find ways of singing, as exiles, in a strange land. You can find more resources and information about Good Friday activities HERE.
Catherine Askew explores the theme of the hero’s journey, in the first of our Easter talks. You can find more about our Maundy Thursday resources HERE
As we celebrate St Cuthbert’s Day this year, we are pleased to be sharing an original poem by Colin Symes, telling the story of St Cuthbert, with images of Holy Island and other places connected with his life; a recording of the Cuthbert Compline and a compilation video of songs from the compline. The final […]
Today, we invite you to join in with our Antiphon Walk across the Pilgrim’s Way, the Holy Island of Lindisfarne, Northumberland, UK, in every place where you are. You can also find the words of the antiphons in Celtic Daily Prayer Book One – from page 108. From 17th to 23rd December, we set our […]
A beautiful song from Anna Raine – ‘Aidan’s Song’ – to accompany us as we remember the example of St Aidan (31st August). Through simply ‘being who he was’, and with a willing heart, Aidan brought a unique expression of Celtic Christian spirituality to the land of Northumbria and, as such, also became a key […]
In September 2021, Catherine Askew, Sarah Hay and Sarah Pillar spent a few days with Kev Grimley and family at the Bethany Community, Leicestershire, to learn how to build a coracle… Brendan, and other Irish monks, would have set out in this kind of small, round boat to find their own ‘desert in the sea’, […]