Wiccan Funeral Meet Again Travel Journey Know Love
These prayers come from a multifariousness of sources, and are mainly traditional prayers, some translated from the Gaelic in which they were originally written. Often, the traditional prayers from remote locations incorporate a mix of Christian and pagan thoughts!
(encounter also 'Prayers from Carmina Galetica - ancient Celtic prayers)
New Blessings in the 'Celtic' style
I lay my head to rest,
and in doing so,
lay at your feet
the faces I accept seen,
the voices I have heard,
the words I accept spoken,
the easily I take shaken,
the service I accept given,
the joys I have shared,
the sorrows revealed,
I lay them at your anxiety,
and in doing then
lay my head to rest.
Through the dark hours of this night
protect and environment usa,
Father, Son and Spirit, Iii.
Forgive the ill that nosotros have done.
Forgive the pride that we have shown.
Forgive the words that have caused impairment
that nosotros might sleep peaceably,
and ascension refreshed to do your volition.
Through the dark hours of this evening
protect and surroundings us,
Begetter, Son and Spirit, Three
May the God of peace
bring peace to this firm.
May the Son of peace
bring peace to this house.
May the Spirit of peace
bring peace to this house,
this night and all nights
Bless this house and those within.
Bless our giving and receiving.
Bless our words and chat.
Bless our hands and recreation.
Bless our sowing and our growing.
Bless our coming and our going.
Anoint all who enter and depart.
Anoint this house, your peace impart.
This night and every night
grant to me lite.
Tonight and every nighttime
grant to me peace.
This night and every night
grant to me residuum.
This nighttime and every night
grant to me grace.
This night and every nighttime
grant to me joy.
(All above ©John Birch)
Celtic Blessings From Other Sources
(Sources given where known - copyright non known)
May the blessing of calorie-free be on you - low-cal without and low-cal within.
May the blest sunlight shine on you like a great peat burn down,
then that stranger and friend may come and warm himself at it.
And may light polish out of the two eyes of you,
similar a candle set in the window of a firm,
bidding the wanderer come in out of the storm.
And may the blessing of the rain exist on you,
may it beat upon your Spirit and wash information technology fair and clean,
and leave there a shining puddle where the blueish of Sky shines,
and sometimes a star.
And may the approving of the earth exist on yous,
soft under your feet equally you pass along the roads,
soft under you as yous lie out on it, tired at the finish of twenty-four hours;
and may it rest easy over you when, at final, yous lie out under information technology.
May it rest then lightly over you that your soul may be out from under it rapidly; up and off and on its style to God.
And now may the Lord bless y'all, and anoint yous kindly. Amen.
Scottish Blessing
If there is righteousness in the heart,
If there is righteousness in the centre,
at that place volition exist dazzler in the character.
If there is beauty in the character,
there will exist harmony in the habitation.
If there is harmony in the abode,
in that location will be guild in the nation.
If there is order in the nation,
there will be peace in the earth.
So let information technology exist.
(Scottish Approval)
Lang may your lum reek. (Long may your chimney smoke.)
(Scottish Blessing)
Slainte mhor agus a h-uile beannachd duibh
Good health and every skillful blessing to you!
(A Gaelic Prayer)
May you have -
Walls for the air current
And a roof for the pelting,
And drinks bedside the fire
Laughter to cheer you
And those y'all love virtually you,
And all that your centre may want
(Celtic Blessing)
May God be with y'all and bless you lot.
May y'all see your children's children.
May y'all exist poor in misfortune, rich in blessings.
May you know nothing but happiness
From this mean solar day forward
(An Onetime Hymeneals Blessing)
May those who love us, beloved u.s..
And those who don't love u.s.,
May God turn their hearts;
And if He doesn't plow their hearts,
May He plow their ankles,
So we will know them by their limping.
Be ye our angel unawares
If after Kirk ye abide a wee,
There's some would like to speak to ye,
If after Kirk ye rise and flee
We' all seem cauld and nonetheless to ye.
The one that's in the seat with ye
Is stranger here than ye, maybe.
All here have got their fears and cares,
Add ye your soul unto our prayers,
Be ye our angel unawares.
(Scottish Blessing)
May the hills lie low
May the hills prevarication low,
May the sloughs make full upwardly,
In thy way.
May all evil sleep,
May all adept awake,
In thy way.
(Source: "Mystery on the Isle of Skye")
God to enfold me,
God to environs me,
God in my speaking,
God in my thinking.
God in my sleeping,
God in my waking,
God in my watching,
God in my hoping.
God in my life,
God in my lips,
God in my soul,
God in my eye.
God in my sufficing,
God in my slumber,
God in mine ever-living soul,
God in mine eternity.
(Aboriginal celtic oral traditions - carmina gadelica)
I arise today
Through a mighty strength:
God'south ability to guide me,
God's might to uphold me,
God'southward eyes to watch over me;
God'south ear to hear me,
God's word to requite me speech,
God's hand to guard me,
God'due south way to lie before me,
God'south shield to shelter me,
God's host to secure me.
(first millenium - bridgid of gael)
Yous are the peace of all things calm
Yous are the identify to hibernate from harm
Y'all are the light that shines in nighttime
You are the heart'southward eternal spark
You are the door that's open broad
You lot are the guest who waits within
Y'all are the stranger at the door
You are the calling of the poor
You are my Lord and with me still
Yous are my love, go on me from sick
Y'all are the light, the truth, the way
You are my Saviour this very mean solar day.
(celtic oral tradition - 1st millennium)
May there always exist work for your hands to do.
May your purse ever hold a coin or ii.
May the sunday always smooth upon your window pane.
May a rainbow be certain to follow each rain.
May the mitt of a friend always be nearly to you and
May God fill up your heart with gladness to cheer y'all.
(traditional blessing)
May the road rise upwardly to meet you.
May the wind be always at your dorsum.
May the sunday shine warm upon your face;
the rains fall soft upon your fields and until we meet once again, may God concur you in the palm of His paw.
(traditional gaelic blessing)
Beannachd Dia dhuit
(blessings of God be with you - ScotsGaelic)
Nosotros bathe your palms
In the showers of wine,
In the crook of the kindling,
In the vii elements,
In the sap of the tree,
In the milk of honey,
We place nine pure, choice gifts
In your clear dear face up:
The gift of form,
The gift of phonation,
The souvenir of fortune,
The gift of goodness,
The gift of eminence,
The gift of clemency,
The gift of integrity,
The gift of true nobility,
The souvenir of apt speech.
(traditional gaelic)
Circle me, Lord.
Keep protection near
And danger afar.
Circle me, Lord
Keep hope within.
Go along doubt without.
Circle me, Lord.
Keep light nigh
And darkness distant.
Circumvolve me, Lord.
Keep peace within.
Keep evil out.
(david adam)
Deep peace I breathe into you,
O weariness, here:
O ache, here!
Deep peace, a soft white pigeon to You;
Deep peace, a quiet rain to you;
Deep peace, an ebbing wave to you!
Deep peace, ruby wind of the east from you;
Deep peace, greyness wind of the due west to You;
Deep peace, dark wind of the due north from you lot;
Deep peace, bluish wind of the south to you!
Deep peace, pure red of the flame to you;
Deep peace, pure white of the moon to you lot;
Deep peace, pure green of the grass to y'all;
Deep peace, pure brown of the globe to y'all;
Deep peace, pure grey of the dew to y'all,
Deep peace, pure bluish of the sky to yous!
Deep peace of the running wave to you,
Deep peace of the flowing air to you lot,
Deep peace of the tranquility earth to you,
Deep peace of the sleeping stones to y'all!
Deep peace of the Yellow Shepherd to you,
Deep peace of the Wandering Shepherdess to you,
Deep peace of the Flock of Stars to you,
Deep peace from the Son of Peace to you,
Deep peace from the heart of Mary to you,
And from Briget of the Mantle
Deep peace, deep peace!
And with the kindness too of the Haughty Father
Peace!
In the name of the Three who are One,
Peace! And by the will of the King of the Elements,
Peace! Peace!
(From "The Rule of Dreams. Under the Dark Star
by Fiona Macleod (William Sharp,1895))
Spare United states the Fall
May the roof above
never fall in,
May nosotros below
never fall out.
(a Celtic grace)
My Fortress
The Sacred 3
My fortress be
Encircling me
Come and be round
My hearth and my home.
(Celtic prayer)
A Familiar Stranger
I saw a stranger today.
I put food for him
in the eating-identify
And drink
in the drinking-place
And music
in the listening-place.
In the Holy name
of the Trinity
He blessed myself
and my family.
And the lark said in her warble
Often, oft, often
Goes Christ
in the stranger's guise.
O, oft and frequently and oft,
Goes Christ
in the stranger's guise.
(Celtic Rune of Hospitality)
Be thou my vision,
O Lord of my center,
Be all else but naught to me,
Relieve that thou fine art;
Be k my all-time thought
In the 24-hour interval and the nighttime,
Both waking and steeping,
Thy presence my light.
May Christ and His Saints stand up between you and harm.
Mary and her Son.
Patrick with his staff.
Martin with his mantle.
Brigid with her veil.
Michael with his shield.
And God over all with His strong right hand.
May your past be a pleasant memory,
Your future filled with delight and mystery,
Your now a glorious moment,
That fills your life with deep contentment.
May your mean solar day be filled with blessings
Like the lord's day that lights the sky,
And may you ever have the courage
To spread your wings and wing!
May the blessings of light exist upon you,
Light without and light inside,
And in all your comings and goings,
May you ever accept a kindly greeting
From them y'all see along the road.
May the nourishment of the globe be yours,
May the clarity of light be yours,
May the fluency of the ocean be yours,
May the protection of the ancestors be yours.
(John O'Donohue, from 'Benedictus: A Book of Blessings' )
May dawn discover you awake and warning, budgeted your new day with dreams, possibilities, and promises.
May evening find y'all gracious and fulfilled.
May you go into the night blessed, sheltered, and protected.
May your soul at-home, console, and renew you.
God anoint the corners of this house and all the lintel blessed,
And bless the hearth and bless the board and bless each identify of rest,
And bless each door that opens wide to strangers as to kin,
And bless each crystal window pane that lets the starlight in,
And bless the rooftree overhead and every sturdy wall.
The peace of man. The peace of God. With peace and love for all.
May your troubles be less
And your blessings be more.
And cypher but happiness
Come through your door.
May green exist the grass you walk on,
May blue be the skies above you,
May pure be the joys that surroundings you,
May true be the hearts that love you.
May the face of every good news
And the back of every bad news
Be toward united states.
May you lot be poor in misfortune,
Rich in blessings,
Tiresome to make enemies,
And quick to make friends.
But rich or poor, quick or slow,
May yous know goose egg but happiness
From this day forward.
You've blessed me with friends and laughter and fun
With rain that's equally soft as the light from the sun
You've blessed me with the stars to burnish each night
You lot've given me help to know wrong from right
You've given me and so much, and so please Lord requite me too
A heart that is e'er Grateful to yous.
May we live in peace without weeping.
May our joy outline the lives we impact without ceasing.
And may our honey fill the world, angel wings tenderly beating.
(Trad Irish)
May the blessing of the pelting exist on you lot—
the soft sweetness pelting.
May it fall upon your spirit
and then that all the fiddling flowers may spring upwards,
and shed their sweetness on the air.
May the approval of the groovy rains be on you,
may they beat out upon your spirit
and wash it off-white and clean,
and go out there many a shining pool
where the blue of heaven shines,
and sometimes a star.
May the practiced earth exist soft under you
when you rest upon it,
and may it rest easy over you lot when,
at the final, yous lay out under it,
And may information technology rest then lightly over y'all
that your soul may be out
from nether it chop-chop,
and up, and off,
And be on its mode to God.
Dear Lord,
Give me a few friends
who will beloved me for what I am,
and go on ever burning
before my vagrant steps
the kindly light of hope...
And though I come up not within sight
of the castle of my dreams,
teach me to be thankful for life,
and for fourth dimension's olden memories
that are good and sweet.
And may the evening's twilight
discover me gentle yet.
Bless those minding cattle,
And those minding sheep,
And those fishing the ocean
While the residuum of us sleep.
If God sends you downward a stony path,
may he requite you lot stiff shoes.
May the rains sweep gentle across your fields,
May the sunday warm the country,
May every expert seed you have planted bear fruit,
And tardily summer find you standing in fields of plenty.
Bless this house, o Lord, nosotros pray.
Brand it safe by night and day.
Bless these walls so firm and stout,
Keeping want and problem out.
Bless the roof and chimney tall,
Let thy peace lie over all.
Bless the doors that they may prove
Always open to joy and love.
Anoint the windows shining brilliant,
Letting in God's heavenly calorie-free.
Bless the hearth a-blazing there,
With smoke ascending like a prayer.
Anoint the people here inside...
Keep them pure and gratis from sin.
Bless united states of america all, that one day, we
May be fit, O lord, to dwell with Thee.
(Helen Mary, 1927 (set up to music by May Brahe))
Source: https://www.faithandworship.com/Celtic_Blessings_and_Prayers.htm
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