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Alex,

Any idea where I could possibly find this Celtic Rosary, or did it go the way of the Celtic Rite? It sounds like something I would be interested in.

The Litany to the name of Jesus is also a beautiful devotion. I try to recite it and the Sacred Heart Litany every Friday. The new Tridentine Missal I purchased has both, and many more that I'm trying to fit into my daily prayers.

So many devotions, so little time

Columcille

Dear Columcille,

There is a site which you can use to pray the Celtic Rosary or the Paternoster Psalter of Christ online!
http://www.romanorthodoxchurch.go.cc/

Go to "Sanctuary" which is where you will find the online version and where there are instructions on how to tie a Celtic Rosary.

God bless,

Alex

Wow! Thank you. I can honestly say that I have never heard of the Roman Orthodox Church. I'm curious, how did they come to that name? "Roman" usually means, in union with Rome. "Orthodox" means, not in union with Rome.

Perhaps you can shed some light?

Columcille

Dear Columcille,

This is a "vagante" group of former Roman Catholics and Anglicans who follow the Benedictine Rule and the Roman Rite (i.e. "Roman Rite" Orthodox).

I just find their devotional page interesting and like the online Psalter of Christ.

Alex

Thats what I thought.

Thank you as always I'm presently searching the internet for one of those Celtic Rosaries.

Columcille

Dear Columcille,

If you like, you can send them an e-mail and request a ready-made Celtic Rosary. I am sure they will send you one.

Otherwise, what I did, was get a string and tie fifty knots in it, with a Cross tied at one end and a tassel tied to the other end. Just as good!

Alex

Perhaps this can be a task the wife and I can undertake some rainy Saturday afternoon

Thanks again!

Columcille

JMJ

Serge and Alex:

When I went to my first class to learn to become a Catholic, the priest asked me if I knew how to pray ejaculations. Imagine my surprise! That's something we just didn't do as SBC members.

In all do seriousness, my two favorite ejaculations, both of them Irish in nature, are:

1. Jesus, Mary, and Joseph (JMJ)

2. Saints preserve us!

Another popular one is:

Jesus, Mary I love you save souls.

Alex:


As I am sure you know, the Rosary is beleived to have originated in Ireland. As the story goes, laymen would be around a monastery and they would here the monks reciting the psalms. They wanted to include this practice in their daily lives. Since most of them could not read, they replaced the psalms with prayers they had memorized like the Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be, and Jesus prayer. The adding of mysteies and the seperation into decades came much later as a result of a marian apparition to St. Dominic. This is why the Rosary, in its current form, is considered a Dominican Rosary.

Dear Johanam,

Actually, Ireland received much of its Celtic tradition from Coptic Egypt - there is an invocation in the Irish litany to the "Seven Coptic Priests" buried in Ireland, for example.

It was St Paul of Thebes living way back when who carried to bags with him on either shoulder.

One bag contained exactly 300 pebbles. He would say an "Our Father" and then put a pebble into the other, empty bag until he said them all.

The EAstern Church monastics still stay, as an ascetical exercise, 150 Our Father's and 150 Hail Mary's, often with accompanying prostrations.

The form of the Rosary as we have it today really dates from the sixteenth century, although the recitation of the prayers as "Little Psalters" is much older.

Alex