Gaudete!

When I make my morning tea and pray the Angelus, the little buds whisper, "Spring is coming."

Celtic Advent Calendar 2024

With great joy, I share with you the 16th annual Celtic Advent Calendar 2024 (through Christmas to Epiphany!). You can read more about why I created this calend...

Observing Celtic Advent & Liturgical Time

This is the tenth year of the Contemplative Cottage Advent Calendar. Here is the 2024 calendar. I studied for my MDiv at a school embedded in a monastic communi...

Celtic Advent Calendar

2024 Celtic Advent Calendar here. For each day, from November 15 until Epiphany, I’ve thought of one thing I can do to practice joy and gratitude, and to ...

Celtic Advent Begins

2024 Celtic Advent Calendar is here. Day 27 on Cultivating Sanctuary. Sometimes the smallest act can have the biggest consequences. Even a small pebble creates ...

Celtic Advent: 40 Days of Joy and Love

Please see the 2024 updated version of this calendar here. For each day, from now until Epiphany, I’ve thought of one thing I can do to practice joy and g...

Good Friday

  I raised my eyes To see Thy kinging Thorns not gold Thy honor crowned Men throw dice, no fealty bringing Their eyes are blind, their souls are bound. I raised...