The Celtic Church.
When many Christians come to study Church history, they focus mostly on the division of Europe between the Eastern orthodox and the Western Roman Catholic. Some will occasionally look at the Armenian and the various Coptic's around the Middle-East and North-Africa, but all will fail to acknowledge the Celtic Church of the geographical term, the British Isles?
This is because it seems not to have a direct connection to the mass events of historical interest, when the truth be known that it is more important in relation for today than meets the eye? The influence of one man Patrick in Ireland would change direction for the Christian religion throughout Northern-Europe and this influence despite the various reformations would ultimately clash with other groups of the New world in the Americas hundreds of years later!
Matthew 3:12, Mark 16:15, Romans 10:15, 1 Timothy 1:15.
Showing posts with label Patrick. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Patrick. Show all posts
Monday, 13 March 2017
Monday, 17 March 2014
Patrick. Part-Two.
Impression and Reality.
Many of us think we know a person, like the stories and the legends that surround them. But the reality is that we do not know the truth.
Many people think they know who Jesus was and what he did, they have picked up info from TV, films, Sunday school, even Church. But they never really listened!
Patrick was a born-again Christian, who believed in Jesus as his Lord and Savior. Patrick could be described as the father of the Western Celtic Church, he founded eight schools of learning, translated the New Testament and the book of the Psalms in to Gaelic, Welsh, Cornish and Brigantic.
Many of these languages of the 6th Century had never been written down before. He was quite a humble man, but he established missionary work to Wales, Scotland, Cornwall, the Isle of Man and Northern-England.
Today you might want to discover who the real Jesus is?
Many of us think we know a person, like the stories and the legends that surround them. But the reality is that we do not know the truth.
Many people think they know who Jesus was and what he did, they have picked up info from TV, films, Sunday school, even Church. But they never really listened!
Patrick was a born-again Christian, who believed in Jesus as his Lord and Savior. Patrick could be described as the father of the Western Celtic Church, he founded eight schools of learning, translated the New Testament and the book of the Psalms in to Gaelic, Welsh, Cornish and Brigantic.
Many of these languages of the 6th Century had never been written down before. He was quite a humble man, but he established missionary work to Wales, Scotland, Cornwall, the Isle of Man and Northern-England.
Today you might want to discover who the real Jesus is?
Monday, 10 March 2014
Patrick. Part-One,
Saint Patrick.
Perhaps one of the most Internationally well known Saints around the world from the U.S. to Ireland, but he is also the patron saint of Nigeria. Things are done in style and taste in the United States in relation to St. Patrick's day, by the large and long standing Irish community.
The 17th March will be marked by parades, dances and music and drink, but all of this actually has very little to do with the man himself and he probably would not approve of some of it.
We have a traditional story, filled with shamrocks and many other legends of the man. But much of what we claim to now about him is not true.
What is known about him, is that he was a born-again Christian, who first arrived in Ireland as a slave from south west England, at the age of about sixteen years old.
1 Corinthians 15:8-10, 1 Timothy 1:15-16.
Perhaps one of the most Internationally well known Saints around the world from the U.S. to Ireland, but he is also the patron saint of Nigeria. Things are done in style and taste in the United States in relation to St. Patrick's day, by the large and long standing Irish community.
The 17th March will be marked by parades, dances and music and drink, but all of this actually has very little to do with the man himself and he probably would not approve of some of it.
We have a traditional story, filled with shamrocks and many other legends of the man. But much of what we claim to now about him is not true.
What is known about him, is that he was a born-again Christian, who first arrived in Ireland as a slave from south west England, at the age of about sixteen years old.
1 Corinthians 15:8-10, 1 Timothy 1:15-16.
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