Posted 128 days ago
What is the Celtic Prayer Retreat Center?
After a trip to Iona in 1992, Tom and Christine have been dreaming of creating a Celtic Prayer Retreat Center. The following is from an article Tom wrote:
"Since then, Christine and I have read everything we can find on Celtic Christian faith, Celtic spirituality and its history....We find a growing interest in Celtic Christian spirituality in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the United States.
"We are finding a number of American believers who are also trying to find their way home to a spirituality that has the potential to touch every aspect of life, contains a love of creation, compassion for those at the margins, and is alive with jubilation. My wife and I want to share this treasure with others and help them find their way home too. More than that, we want to create a place where people can come to deepen their faith, develop their spiritual disciplines and discover their Christian calling for stewardship of all of their lives and caring for God's creation.
"Our dream is to construct a Celtic Christian prayer retreat center. It will consist of a modest group of four residential dwellings on 40 acres of land we own in Washington. We want to create a place that captures the spirit of a 6th century Celtic monastery. We want to construct three circular medium sized dwellings, one larger dwelling for common meetings, and a high tower, facing the Olympic and Cascade mountains, as a place of prayer.
"In all that we do, we want to reflect a Celtic love of both Creator and creation. Therefore this will be a highly self-reliant community with its own well, garden, orchard and alternative energy system, modeling a form of creation care through designing a model of sustainable cooperative living.
"We envision this small community composed of three couples seeking to reflect something of the spirit of those early Celtic monasteries in their common life through living simple, celebrative lives and a vital spirituality."
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