| DIA liom a laighe, Dia liom ag eirigh, Dia liom anus gach rath soluis, Is gun mi rath son as aonais, Gun non rath as aonais. Criosda liom a cadal, Dia liom a comhnadh |
GOD with me lying down, God with me rising up, God with me in each ray of light, Nor I a ray of joy without Him, Nor one ray without Him. Christ with me sleeping, God with me protecting, |
As we work up to our next session on Celtic Christianity, I thought I’s begin to post a few prayers and hymns from the Carmina Gadelica, a 19th century collection of poems, hymns and prayers from the Wales, Scotland, Ireland and Britain. Many of these hearken back to the earliest days of Christianity in the British isles and show the keen sense of a God present and active in His world and in the lives of His people.
This perception of the active presence of Christ is wonderfully expressed in the hymn, St. Patrick’s Breastplate, which is also a wonderful expression of the Holy Trinity.
The two volumes are online in various places, but the text version in a real book is somehow more satisfying.
The Cathedral Close 
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