HOLY MARY, MOTHER OF GOD, PRAY FOR US SINNERS
NOW AND AT THE HOUR OF OUR DEATH
NO JESUS, NO PEACE
KNOW JESUS, KNOW PEACE
AT THE NAME OF JESUS EVERY KNEE SHALL BEND
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A TRUE CHRISTIAN IS ONE WHO SHARES IN
THE ANOINTING OF THE
CHRIST BY LIVING IN ACCORD WITH THE
FAITH, ORDER AND WORSHIP OF THE ANCIENT CHURCH AND WITNESSES FOR CHRIST AS HIS
OR HER PERSONAL CIRCUMSTANCE WILL PERMIT.
YOU CAN’T BE A TRUE BELIEVING CHRISTIAN AND NOT PICK UP YOUR CROSS
AND FOLLOW JESUS. DO PENANCE FOR YOUR SINS AND PRAY FOR THE
SALVATION OF THOSE WHO DO NOT KNOW CHRIST.
WITNESS FOR CHRIST AND HIS PURE ORTHODOX AND CATHOLIC CHURCH.
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PRAY FOR THE VICTIMS OF THE CHINA VIRUS
MOON GOD ALLAH
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THE MASS AND THE DAILY PRAYING AND STUDY OF SCRIPTURE ARE
THE TWIN PILLARS UPON WHICH
REST OUR HOPE FOR SALVATION
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The Celtic Orthodox Church is
so Ancient it demands respect
is so Traditional it is refreshing
and so Conservative it is reassuring.
HOLY TRINITY CELTIC ORTHODOX CHURCH
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THE CELTS ARE ISRAELITES UNDER ANOTHER NAME
The word Celt is the Anglicized
form of the Greek word Keltoi, which
means “the people who are
different.” In Scripture, all nations, except
the Twelve Tribes of Israel,
are referred to as Gentiles (Foreigners),
so the only people who are
different are Israel. The word Celt is
therefore another word for
Israelite. The Celts are part of the Ten
“lost”
Tribes of Israel; as are the Tuatha de Danaan and Milesians. The
Irish people are a
mixture of Celts; Danaans; Milesians; Judah/Zarahites
(of
the “Red Hand” – Genesis 38:28-30); (Dan-ish) Vikings
and Norsemen
and are all racially
cousins.
THE CELTS, ACCORDING TO
GOD, ARE ISRAELITES.
The word British is not
English; it is Hebrew.
Brit (Berit)
means Covenant in Hebrew and Welsh
Ish means man or people of, in Hebrew and English
Therefore British means
The People of The Covenant,
in other words, the People
Israel of The Covenant.
However, the Celtish / Irish people are Israelites descended from
Jacob/Israel’s fifth of
his twelve sons, who was called Dan and fathered
the Tuatha
de Danaan – the Tribe of Dan (the Irish and Danish).
Therefore the Irish
people are Celtish / British-Israelites by birth
i.e. People of The Covenant
in the Torah in the Bible and in The Ark,
which is buried at Tara.
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“THE MASS AND THE DAILY
STUDY AND PRAYING OF SCRIPTURE ARE
THE TWIN PILLARS UPON
WHICH REST OUR HOPE FOR SALVATION”
(Bishop Brian J. Kennedy, O.S.B.)
Our Lord assured his disciples that he had
come, not to destroy, but to fulfill,
the Law. It is not surprising,
therefore, to find the earliest Christians,
notably the Apostles, conforming
to the traditional customs of worship of
the old Covenant: keeping
the Passover, or going up to the Temple to pray
at the appointed
"Hours of Prayer," or keeping those hours as times of private
devotion.
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Likewise, we find St. Paul, wherever he might be, seeking out
the local synagogue on the Sabbath, taking part in its worship and availing
himself of its opportunities for teaching. At the same time we find Christians
keeping strictly Christian observances, notably the First Day of the Week, with
its Eucharistic Breaking of Bread as the distinctive act of worship. Even when
the Church had overflowed the bounds of Judaism and was overwhelmingly Gentile
in its membership, there was a survival of devotional practices of Jewish
origin. Chief among these was the observance of the daily praying of the Psalms
and the daily prayer and study of the Scriptures. The practice of daily reading and praying the
Scriptures became part
of the faith as once delivered to the saints as
it had been part of the practice of the Jewish people during the life of Christ
and the Apostles. This Lectio Divina emulates the
worship of the Temple in the time of Christ.
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Lectio Divina of the Prophet Daniel
TO DAILY PRAY THE PSALMS AND SCRIPTURE
In the back of the
Orthodox Study Bible are beautiful prayers
for the beginning and the
end of the day.
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TO PRAY AS DID THE EARLY CHURCH
“YOU ARE MISTAKEN, NOT
KNOWING THE
SCRIPTURES NOR THE POWER
OF GOD”
(Jesus Christ reported in
Matthew 22:29)
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THE LECTIO
DIVINA OF THE PROPHET DANIEL
IS A GIFT FROM THE ANCIENTS
TO US TODAY
AND OUR LEGACY TO A
GENERATION NOT YET BORN
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Daniel 6:10
Now, when Daniel knew
this, that is to say, that the law was made,
he went into his house: and
opening the windows in his upper chamber
towards Jerusalem, he knelt down
three times a day, and adored and
gave thanks before his God,
as he had been accustomed to do before.
The Lectio
Divina of the Prophet Daniel is designed to be prayed
three times a day. Three Chapters from Scripture with the
attendant Psalm is prayed in the
morning, one at
mid-day and three at evening
time. The practice of reading and
praying the Scriptures three
times a day was a firmly established
practice in the Jewish community
before and during the life of Christ.
To this day, the Orthodox
Jews continue to pray three
times a day. This practice, evidenced by the
Prophet Daniel continues
in the Celtic Orthodox Church today.
CHRIST AND THE APOSTLES PRAYED THE
PSALMS AND SCRIPTURE THREE TIMES A DAY
The first coincided with
the morning sacrifice, at the 3rd hour of
the morning, at 9 A.M. The second was at the 6th
hour, or at noon, and
coincided with the thanksgiving for the
chief meal of the day. The 3rd hour of prayer coincided
with the evening sacrifice,
at the ninth hour (3:00 P.M.)
“Evening, and morning,
and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud, and he
shall hear my voice.” Psalm
54:18
“Now when Daniel knew that
the writing was signed, he went into his
house; and his windows being
open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he
kneeled upon his knees three
times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks
before his God, as he had done
before.”
DANIEL PRAYED THE SCRIPTURES AND PSALMS THREE
TIMES A DAY
“In the first year of his
reign, I, Daniel, understood from the
Scriptures, according to
the word of the LORD given to Jeremiah the
prophet, that the desolation of
Jerusalem would last seventy years.”
(Daniel 9:2)
THIS OLD TESTAMENT PRACTICE WAS CARRIED
ON BY THE APOSTLES AND THE EARLY CHURCH
Acts 3:1
Now Peter and John went
up into the temple at the ninth hour of prayer.
Acts 10: 3
This man saw in a vision
manifestly, about the ninth hour of the
day, an angel of God coming
in unto him and saying to him: Cornelius.
Acts 10:9
And on the next day,
whilst they were going on their journey and
drawing nigh to the city, Peter
went up to the higher parts of the
house to pray, about the sixth
hour.
Acts 10:30
And Cornelius said: Four
days ago, unto this hour, I was praying in
my house, at the ninth hour
and behold a man stood before me in
white apparel and said:
THE PRACTICE OF PRAYING
AT THE
3RD , 6TH
, AND 9TH HOURS
LIVES ON IN
THE CHURCH AS THE LECTIO DIVINA
THAT IS PRAYED THREE
TIMES A DAY.
THREE CHAPTERS IN THE
MORNING,
ONE CHAPTER IN THE
AFTERNOON
AND THREE CHAPTERS IN THE
EVENING.
THE DAILY STUDY AND PRAYER OF SCRIPTURE IS PART
OF THE FAITH AS ONCE DELIVERED TO THE SAINTS
(Bishop Brian J. Kennedy, O.S.B.)
“IGNORANCE OF SCRIPTURE IS IGNORANCE OF JESUS CHRIST
(Saint Jerome)
Soul saving repentance is
not possible apart from praying the
Scriptures, as the
Scriptures in a unique way convict us of sin. Through
the Scriptures, the Holy
Spirit speaks to our heart, soul and mind of
the need for repentance and
through the Word of God blesses us with the
grace of conversion leading to
salvation in Christ.
Without the Scriptures it
is impossible to know Jesus or understand the
power of God.
The Spirit in the words
of Scriptures reverberates in the heart creating
a closer union with Christ
and through Christ with the Father. This
“Synergy with the Father
in Christ” is the product of the Holy Spirit
and can only come to
fruition through the abiding presence of the Word
of God.
Christ continues to bring
the love of the Father to His people and
reveal His own love for us from
the Tabernacle on the Altar. Christ
continues to be our Savior, our
Redeemer, our life, our sweetness and
our hope. From the
Tabernacle on the Altar Christ ALONE remains the gate
of Heaven, the SOLE arbiter
and dispenser of all God’s Graces and gifts;
The Mediator of all
graces. We are healed by the Sacred Wounds of
Christ, we are redeemed
by His Precious Blood and we are made clean by
His spoken word. It is impossible to be sealed in the Blood of
the Lamb
without also experiencing the
spoken Word of God by which we are made
clean. (John 15:3)
St. Benedict calls the
disciple to the school of the Gospel: “Let us
walk in the paths of the Lord
by the guidance of the Gospel” (R Prol).
By these words the Father
of monks expresses his intention to establish
a life patterned after the
Gospel. This is the only true foundation on
which a community rests. St.
Benedict was well aware that his work
represented an embodiment of the
Gospel. St. Benedict called praying
the Scriptures the “OPUS
DEI”, which is Latin for “WORK OF GOD.”
THE DAILY MASS AND THE DAILY PRAYER AND STUDY
OF SCRIPTURE ARE THE TWIN PILLARS UPON WHICH
REST OUR HOPE FOR SALVATION
(Bishop Brian J. Kennedy, O.S.B.)
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THE CELTS ARE ISRAELITES
UNDER ANOTHER NAME
The word Celt is the
Anglicized form of the Greek word Keltoi, which
means “the people who are
different.” In Scripture, all nations, except
the Twelve Tribes of Israel,
are referred to as Gentiles (Foreigners),
so the only people who are
different are Israel. The word Celt is
therefore another word for
Israelite. The Celts are part of the Ten
“lost”
Tribes of Israel; as are the Tuatha de Danaan and Milesians. The
Irish people are a
mixture of Celts; Danaans; Milesians; Judah/Zarahites
(of
the “Red Hand” – Genesis 38:28-30); (Dan-ish) Vikings
and Norsemen
and are all racially
cousins.
THE CELTS, ACCORDING TO
GOD, ARE ISRAELITES.
The word British is not
English; it is Hebrew.
Brit (Berit)
means Covenant in Hebrew and Welsh
Ish means man or people of, in Hebrew and English
Therefore British means
The People of The Covenant,
in other words, the People
Israel of The Covenant.
However, the Celtish / Irish people are Israelites descended from
Jacob/Israel’s fifth of
his twelve sons, who was called Dan and fathered
the Tuatha
de Danaan – the Tribe of Dan (the Irish and Danish).
Therefore the Irish
people are Celtish / British-Israelites by birth
i.e. People of The Covenant
in the Torah in the Bible and in The Ark,
which is buried at Tara.
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THE NUMBERING OF THE PSALMS ARE ACCORDING TO
THE
VENERABLE SEPTUAGINT VERSION OLD TESTAMENT
TEXT
Preface
The Celtic Orthodox Lectio Divina opens with the “Songs of Ascent. The
Songs of Ascent appear in
Hebrew and English on the wall at the entrance
to the City of David,
Jerusalem, Israel.
Songs of Ascent is a
title given to text Psalm 119 – 133.
Each psalm
starts with the ascription Shir Hama’aloth (Hebrew: שירהמעלות, meaning
“Song of Ascent”). They
are also variously called Gradual Psalms, Songs
of Degrees, Songs of Steps
or Pilgrim Songs.
The worshippers sang
these psalms as they ascended up the road to
Jerusalem to attend the
three pilgrim festivals (Deuteronomy 16:16) or
by the kohanim
(priests) as they ascended the fifteen steps to minister
at the Temple in Jerusalem.
Each Psalm ends with a
repetition of the first line of the Psalm followed immediately by “Holy God, +
Mighty God, + God Immortal + have mercy on me. One is holy + one is the Lord, +
Jesus Christ, to the glory of the Father.” (the +
indicates you make the sign of the Cross)
After praying the Psalms
of Ascent as shown above,
Psalm 94 closes out the
preface.
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THE TERM LECTIO DIVINA MEANS DIVINE READING OR LESSON AND REFERS TO
THE
PRACTICE OF DAILY PRAYING
THE SCRIPTURES. THIS IS THE FORMAT USED BY THE
PROPHET DANIEL, CHRIST
HIMSELF, THE APOSTLES AND THE EARLY CHURCH.
DANIEL DIVIDED THIS UP
INTO THREE MOMENTS OF PRAYER EACH DAY.
YOU
DIVIDE THIS UP INTO THREE
CHAPTERS IN THE MORNING, ONE CHAPTER IN THE
AFTERNOON AND THREE
CHAPTERS IN THE EVENING.
ESTABLISHED IN THE OLD
TESTAMENT ERA, TERTULLIAN IN THE SECOND
CENTURY CALLS THIS PRAYER
FORMAT A GIFT FROM THE ANCIENTS.
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THEN FOLLOWS THE FIRST
STANZA FROM PSALM 118 FOLLOWED BY ONE CHAPTER
FROM THE BOOK OF
PROVERBS. THE FIRST STANZA IS REPEATED
EACH DAY AS A
PREFACE TO THE CURRENT
READING FROM PROVERBS. THE CHAPTER OF PROVERBS
FOR THE DAY CORRESPONDS
WITH THE DATE OF THE MONTH. (EX: ON THE 3RD
OF EACH MONTH YOU PRAY THE 3RD
CHAPTER AND ON THE 28TH OF EACH
MONTH YOU PRAY THE 28TH CHAPTER ETC.) THE DATE OF THE MONTH DETERMINES
THE APPROPRIATE CHAPTER
FROM PROVERBS.
THE GOAL IS SEVEN
CHAPTERS FROM THE NEW TESTAMENT ONE DAY, SEVEN
CHAPTERS FROM THE
EPISTLES THE NEXT DAY AND SEVEN CHAPTERS FROM THE OLD
TESTAMENT ON THE THIRD
DAY. EACH CHAPTER FROM THE SCRIPTURES IS
PREFACED BY ONE STANZA
FROM PSALM 118. EACH STANZA OF PSALM 118
ENDS
WITH “HOLY GOD, MIGHTY
GOD, GOD IMMORTAL HAVE MERCY ON US” AND THEN THE
READING. AFTER THE READING FOLLOWS ONE PENITENTIAL
PSALM. THE
PENITENTIAL PSALM IS READ
IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE READING AND BEFORE THE
NEXT STANZA FROM PSALM
118. THERE ARE SEVEN PENITENTIAL PSALMS
AND YOU
WILL HAVE PRAYED ONE OF
THE PENITENTIAL PSALMS AFTER EACH ONE OF THE
SEVEN READINGS FROM
SCRIPTURE. *** (Note: The prayer said at the end of each
Psalm, Holy God, mighty God etc is prayed after you repeat the first line of
the Psalm, or part thereof.
The various sections of
Psalm 118 are treated as if they were a separate Psalm)
*PENITENTIAL PSALMS*
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HISTORY OF THE CELTIC
ORTHODOX BENEDICTINE FATHERS
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INTRODUCTION TO BIBLICAL ORTHODOXY
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BABYLON THE GREAT & THE CALIPH ANTI-CHRIST
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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT THE CELTIC ORTHODOX CHURCH
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REMEMBER AS YOU READ
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WORLD PATRIARCH, YET THE PATRIARCHS ACCEPT THEM AS EQUAL BISHOPS IN THE LARGER
CHURCH WITH THE SAME APOSTOLIC MISSION.
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THE APOSTLES, IN UNION WITH THE ORIGINAL 12 AND ALL THOSE WHO CAME AFTER THEM
AND WITH ALL THOSE WHO WILL COME AFTER US.
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