The Order of Celtic Benedictines

Prayer is the Test of Everything. If Prayer is Right, Everything is Right - St. Theophan the Recluse

Membership & Ministry

We are a small Orthodox Anglo-Catholic Religious Order based in Northeast Florida.

We are Christian in Faith, Orthodox Catholic in our teaching, Anglican in our worship and American in our patriotism.

We think of ourselves as an extended family of friends seeking an intimate and interior communion of love with Jesus Christ our Savior by means of contemplative and intercessory prayer, study of Holy Scripture [Bible], writings of the Fathers and Mothers of the Historic Christian Church, both East and West [Sacred Tradition], Celtic philosophy and the way of life outlined in the Rules of St. Benedict and the Celtic St. Columba.

We are rooted in the past and so we are not “new age”, liberal or modernist. We are traditional but not traditionalist.

We seek to develop our faith not alter The Faith. We are people on a spiritual journey, longing for God’s Temple:

 

How lovely is your dwelling place, Lord God of hosts.

My soul is longing and yearning, is yearning for the courts of the Lord.

My heart and my soul ring out their joy to God, the living God.

They are happy who dwell in your house, for ever singing your praise.

They are happy, whose strength is in you, in whose hearts are the roads to Zion.

[Psalm 84]

Louise de Marillac is another Saint who informs our journey. Her especial devotion to the poor and marginalized provides for us a model of devoted service and piety.

Celtic Benedictine Membership and Service

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