Introduction One of the lamentable legacies of the Great Schism of 1054 for the Orthodox Church, was the loss of its link to the West and knowledge of its ecclesial history and traditions, subsequently many of its great luminaries and saints were lost within the memory of the wider body of the Orthodox Church. However, over time with the …
Read More »Tag Archives: Celtic Christianity
Was it St Brendan Who Discovered America?
By Guy Freeland* Pilgrimage to Skellig Michael From my perch along the gunwale of a fishing boat I look out across a gently heaving Atlantic Ocean towards the soaring needle-sharp pinnacles of two rocks on the very Western limits of Europe: Skellig Michael and Small Skellig. Two red sandstone and slate islets 12km off a small island (Valentia), off a …
Read More »
ModeOfLife Become love as God exhorts us, for this is the true starting point for changing your life and the world. For it is love that will bring respect, justice and equity into the world, not our personal opinion of what justice or equity is.