What can we do to have the manifest presence of God in our lives? What can we do to be sure that we really are living before the shining face of God?

St. Aidan of Lindisfarne was one example of the Celtic Christian Tradition for whom God the Trinity invites us to live in two landscapes: the visible and the invisible, the seen and the unseen, the domain of the physical and the spiritual. We can practice and know the manifest presence of God in every moment of daily life. 

Aidan’s life work began at Iona. During his exile, King Oswald of Northumbria, had lived at Columba’s monastery of Iona where he had been converted and baptized. He sent to Iona, rather than to Canterbury, for missionaries. The head of the new mission was a gentle monk named Aidan, who centered his work at Lindisfarne, an island off the northeast coast of England.

With his fellow monks and the English youth whom he trained, Aidan restored Christianity in Northumbria. They counted on the manifest presence of God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. 

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Feast of St. Aidan Contemplative Practice PDF DOWNLOAD

With you on the Journey, 

Rob+