Realizing the presence, promise, and power of the Kingdom of God.
Realizing the presence, promise, and power of the Kingdom of God.

True Penance

I think Columbanus reflects the very best aspect of the whole penitential component.

Psalm 33 Meditation

We can read a Psalm and profit thereby.  We can increase our enjoyment and understanding by reading the Psalm aloud.  However, by combining an oral reading of a Psalm with the skilled interpretation of a skilled audio-visual artist will maximize our enjoyment and understanding. Jesse Slusher has provided a Meditation on Psalm 33:6-12 for us.  […]

That’s Far Enough!

In working with other fallen creatures like myself I have found the phrase, “They haven’t hit bottom yet,” very unhelpful.  Truly,   when I think the human elevator of self destruction is about to “hit bottom” it keeps going…and going.  So this is what I’ve learned: sin is no respecter of persons.  Sin doesn’t have an […]

No Poor?

The Fourth Commandment Deuteronomy 15.1-6 “At the end of every seven years you shall grant a release. And this is the manner of the release: every creditor shall release what he has lent to his neighbor. He shall not exact it of his neighbor, his brother, because the LORD’s release has been proclaimed. Of a […]

Voices Together: Psalm 33:1-5

Psalm 33:1-5 Shout for joy in the LORD, O you righteous! Praise befits the upright. Give thanks to the LORD with the lyre; make melody to him with the harp of ten strings! Sing to him a new song; play skillfully on the strings, with loud shouts. For the word of the LORD is upright, […]

Discipline We Can Trust

“All this has come upon us, though we have not forgotten you, and we have not been false to your covenant. Our heart has not turned back, nor have our steps departed from your way; yet you have broken us in the place of jackals and covered us with the shadow of death.” Psalm 44:17-19 I […]

Welcome To Ailbe.org

Thanks for visiting Ailbe.org. I joined the Fellowship of Ailbe to pursue a vision… a vision of a profound and classical faith enriched by the disciplines of and inspired by the activity of the Celtic saints that they might inform my own faith. The Celts remind us that the values we claim for ourselves today […]