The Open Gate: Celtic Prayers for Growing Spiritually

By David Adam

Book Overview

The Open Gate by David Adam offers a book for both personal daily prayer and group weekly prayer as well as striking line drawings illustrations.

The book is written Celtic tradition and is packed with Celtic prayers for growing in spirituality.

The Open Gate will stimulate spiritual formation and is loosely structured for communion service featuring prayers of confession, intercession, thanksgiving and adoration.

This book is ideal for new Christians, confirmations and those who want to find structure and refresh their daily devotions.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0281058938
• ISBN13: 9780281058938
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: SPCK Publishing
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.1" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Great old and new prayers

David Adam, Vicar of the Holy Isles, has two special ministries. As vicar, he ministers to thousands of pilgrims every year. But he is also a poet, a prayerful poet in the Celtic tradition. This collection of prayers is organized according to the order of service, from first preparation through the final blessing. It includes Adam's original prayers, as well as classic prayers, well known and unknown, from sources as diverse as the Carmina Gadelica, the Alternative Service Book of the Church of England, Evelyn Underhill, and a manual for private prayer published in 1559. For those who wish to pursue a more prayerful life, this little collection is a must, whether you follow the Celtic path or some other.