Sacredstar said:
Please tell us more Q
Perhaps this would be a good place for you to explain the diferences between the protestant and catholic strands.
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kim xx
No, A Celtic Christian (Catholic type), is Catholic and loyal to Rome. It is just that at one time Rome ticked the Abbots and Abbesses of Ireland off (circa 650), and almost paid for it at the pointy end of a broad sword, held by women and men who were bonified priests of the Church...
The ironic thing is that before Patrick, the Irish were loathe to place word on paper (or anything else), even though they had a written language. After Patrick, however, the monks went to town (often adding their own little diddys in the margins of books they were transcribing (often raucous).
When Rome sent a council to Ireland to meet these mysterious "churchmen" who so fastidiously adhered to the transcribing of sacred history, they were stunned to find "women" as priests. Several Bishops ordered the women to be put to death, only to find their own throats in sudden peril, by the very same women (priests), who carried broad swords under their cassacks larger and heavier than that which the council's guard carried...and the women priests were much faster, and much quicker to dispatch anyone who attempted to harm the "faith" as it were...even those sent from Rome...
Good reading on this is
How the Irish Saved Civilization, by Thomas Cahill. Anchor Books, 1995.
"Cahill outlines the fall of the Roman world to the invading barbarians and the conversion of Ireland to Christianity. The barbarians destroyed the Roman civilization including librarians that could have preserved Latin learning. The Irish love for the written and spoken word led their monks to preserve Christian literature as well as all writing that came their way. The Christian monks and their manuscripts survived in Ireland because they were sufficiently out of the way that they did not attract the attention of the invaders. After the barbarians set up their nations in the former empire, the Irish monks invaded England and then continental Europe as Christian missionaries founding monasteries and producing their manuscripts. The continent needed them; Cahill describes the intellectual world these missionaries found:
The intellectual disciplines of distinction, definition, and dialectic that had once been the glory of men like Augustine were unobtainable by readers in the Dark Ages, whose apprehension of the world was simple and immediate, framed in myth and magic. A man no longer subordinated one thought to another with mathematical precision; instead, he apprehended similarities and balances, types and paradigms, parallels and symbols. It was a world not of thought, but of images."
And yes, St Bridget is a popular Saint within my family's way, Even though her roots are suspect in Druidic folklore. But then, any other "ethnic group" has their own additions to the faith...culturally.
As long as it does not detract from the truth that we need to be saved...Jesus, and Jesus alone does this.
By the way, almost everyone of those "monks" paid with their lives, and died uttering Jesus' name on their lips, not Conan, not Calhoun, not Connacht, Jesus.
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Q
