A Psalm for Christmas Eve: Sing to the Lord (Psalms 98, 99 and 100).

View the Celtic Psalms Facebook page for clips of Advent Psalms to raise funds for our nonprofit, Celtic Pilgrims.

Click here for our mashup of Sing to the Lord with the Wexford Carol.

Read a winter reflection on my spirituality newsletter, Bless My Feet.

I’m offering a new online course beginning in January: Habits for the Spirit - a way for us to stay rooted, nourished, and inspired in 2025.

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This Advent, I’ll be sharing four Psalms for the season leading up to Christmas. We may not think of Psalms during Advent, but they have been part of Advent liturgies for generations.

Today’s Psalm is Psalm 85: Love and Mercy. Pick up a free printable journal when you become a paid subscriber, or order a paperback version copy here.

For a deeper exploration of this Psalm, listen to Ep. 11 with Paul Hutchinson. Paul will be a guest facilitator on our next Resilient Spirit 6-Day Retreat in May 2025.

Read a winter reflection on my spirituality newsletter, Bless My Feet.

I’m offering a new online course beginning in January: Habits for the Spirit - a way for us to stay rooted, nourished, and inspired in 2025.

The course will be about habits and spiritual practices we can incorporate into our daily lives to promote wellbeing in body, mind, and spirit. There will be a prerecorded session for each of the 8 weeks, which you can view in your own time, in addition to optional weekly interactive sessions.

Would this be something to sustain and inspire you in the New Year? If so, consider becoming a paid subscriber. I’d love it if you would join me as we find a way to shine our lights in the year ahead.

Find out more about the course

This course will be complimentary for paid subscribers until Jan 6th - Epiphany! After that, it will be available separately on my website.

Psalms for the Spirit is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.

*Lamp photo from Unsplash

This Advent, I’ll be sharing four Psalms for the season leading up to Christmas. We may not think of Psalms during Advent, but they have been part of Advent liturgies for generations.

Read a winter reflection on my spirituality newsletter, Bless My Feet.

I’m announcing a new online course beginning in January: Habits for the Spirit - a way for us to stay rooted, nourished, and inspired in 2025.

The course will be about habits and spiritual practices we can incorporate into our daily lives to promote wellbeing in body, mind, and spirit. There will be a prerecorded session for each of the 8 weeks, which you can view in your own time, in addition to optional weekly interactive sessions.

Would this be something to sustain and inspire you in the New Year? If so, consider becoming a paid subscriber. I’d love it if you would join me as we find a way to shine our lights in the year ahead.

Find out more about the course

This course will be complimentary for paid subscribers until Jan 6th - Epiphany! After that, it will be available separately on my website.

To register your interest in this course, simply respond to this email saying “Interested!” and I’ll add you to my list when I release more information in the coming weeks. If you become a paid subscriber before January 6th, you will be included automatically.

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This song evokes praise with all our heart, soul and body ~ with all of creation, with all instruments, with all aspects of who we are. Indeed, praise includes what brings us pleasure, joy and delight ~ something we don’t often sing about in hymns, and yet which are such an important aspect of living as fully and vibrantly as God intends. Set to the Scottish tune with Irish words, this paraphrase maintains some of the original language in the refrain of the song ‘Happy are We All Together.’

You can find lyrics, scores/books, mp3s, CDs for May We Rise on the Celtic Psalms webpage (www.celticpsalms.com)

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For the time being, paid subscribers to Bless My Feet (Kiran’s spirituality newsletter) or Psalms for the Spirit still receive the free journal ebook (180 pages) with further questions for reflection and some invitations to prayer and practice. You will receive a weekly email with a downloadable mp3 of the song and journal pages, and occasional invitations to Zoom check-ins with others sharing this Psalms journey.

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In this Psalm, all creation praises the God who heals the broken-hearted. It is combined here with the words from the Doxology and the rousing melody ‘Mo Ghile Mear.’ A song of joy at the outpouring of God’s blessings, this Psalm also tends to the outcasts, the forgotten, those longing for peace in home and hearth ~ that all creation will sing when such blessings are extended to all people.

You can find lyrics, scores/books, mp3s, CDs for Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow on the Celtic Psalms webpage (www.celticpsalms.com)

Listen to Kiran and Celtic Psalms on TEDx

The journal is available in paperback format on Amazon!

Here’s the link to the paperback journal (available globally), and if you would be so kind as to leave a review on the Amazon platform in your region, that will help other readers find it! Thank you in advance!

For the time being, paid subscribers to Bless My Feet (Kiran’s spirituality newsletter) or Psalms for the Spirit still receive the free journal ebook (180 pages) with further questions for reflection and some invitations to prayer and practice. You will receive a weekly email with a downloadable mp3 of the song and journal pages, and occasional invitations to Zoom check-ins with others sharing this Psalms journey.

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This joyful song praises the true ruler of the earth: a God of justice and compassion who stands with the vulnerable of this world. Set to ‘Here’s a Health,’ it is a jubilant song of praise, but one that recounts various forms of suffering ~ oppressive power, poverty, false imprisonment, injustice, bereavement, refugees ~ and continually places hope in the goodness and mercy of the one who will ultimately see us through such earthly struggles.

You can find lyrics, scores/books, mp3s, CDs for Hallelujah on the Celtic Psalms webpage (www.celticpsalms.com)

Listen to Kiran and Celtic Psalms on TEDx

The journal is available in paperback format on Amazon!

Here’s the link to the paperback journal (available globally), and if you would be so kind as to leave a review on the Amazon platform in your region, that will help other readers find it! Thank you in advance!

For the time being, paid subscribers to Bless My Feet (Kiran’s spirituality newsletter) or Psalms for the Spirit still receive the free journal ebook (180 pages) with further questions for reflection and some invitations to prayer and practice. You will receive a weekly email with a downloadable mp3 of the song and journal pages, and occasional invitations to Zoom check-ins with others sharing this Psalms journey.

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This is a Psalm about the transformation from a call to battle into a prayer for peace, and is set to ‘The King’s Shilling’ by the Scottish musician Ian Sinclair. The desire for peace is hard won, after facing the realities of war. In the same way, our prayers for people also become more fervent when we encounter the dreadful realities of war, and our hearts are softened as we utter our prayer of blessing on the next generation, that they will become “trees full grown” and “pillars firm,” and that our streets may not be filled with sorrow any longer.

You can find lyrics, scores/books, mp3s, CDs for Come, Spirit, Come on the Celtic Psalms webpage (www.celticpsalms.com)

Listen to Kiran and Celtic Psalms on TEDx

The journal is available in paperback format on Amazon!

Here’s the link to the paperback journal (available globally), and if you would be so kind as to leave a review on the Amazon platform in your region, that will help other readers find it! Thank you in advance!

For the time being, paid subscribers to Bless My Feet (Kiran’s spirituality newsletter) or Psalms for the Spirit still receive the free journal ebook (180 pages) with further questions for reflection and some invitations to prayer and practice. You will receive a weekly email with a downloadable mp3 of the song and journal pages, and occasional invitations to Zoom check-ins with others sharing this Psalms journey.

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Combined with the lyrical air, ‘The Banks of Claudy,’ this beautiful Psalm professes faith in a God who knits us together and knows us intimately. Whether we like it or not, God knows our every thought and movement, but this Psalm continually reminds us that God’s constant presence is one that is loving and accepting of who we are at our best and our worst moments, and that God will continue to lead us in the way that is everlasting.

You can find lyrics, scores/books, mp3s, CDs for You Have Searched Me on the Celtic Psalms webpage (www.celticpsalms.com)

Listen to Kiran and Celtic Psalms on TEDx

The journal is available in paperback format on Amazon!

Here’s the link to the paperback journal (available globally), and if you would be so kind as to leave a review on the Amazon platform in your region, that will help other readers find it! Thank you in advance!

For the time being, paid subscribers to Bless My Feet (Kiran’s spirituality newsletter) or Psalms for the Spirit still receive the free journal ebook (180 pages) with further questions for reflection and some invitations to prayer and practice. You will receive a weekly email with a downloadable mp3 of the song and journal pages, and occasional invitations to Zoom check-ins with others sharing this Psalms journey.

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Set during the Babylonian exile, this Psalm mourns what was left behind in the homeland. The refrain, inspired by the traditional song ‘The Emigrant’s Farewell,’ echoes the request that God remembers those who grieve and those whose wounds have not yet been healed.

You can find lyrics, scores/books, mp3s, CDs for By the Waters of Babylon on the Celtic Psalms webpage (www.celticpsalms.com)

Listen to Kiran and Celtic Psalms on TEDx

The journal is available in paperback format on Amazon!

Here’s the link to the paperback journal (available globally), and if you would be so kind as to leave a review on the Amazon platform in your region, that will help other readers find it! Thank you in advance!

For the time being, paid subscribers to Bless My Feet (Kiran’s spirituality newsletter) or Psalms for the Spirit still receive the free journal ebook (180 pages) with further questions for reflection and some invitations to prayer and practice. You will receive a weekly email with a downloadable mp3 of the song and journal pages, and occasional invitations to Zoom check-ins with others sharing this Psalms journey.

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With the antiphonal refrain “God’s love endures forever,” this Psalm, set to the sea shanty ‘Bold Riley,’ speaks of the story of the Hebrew peoples’ journey into the promised land and of God’s love that endures through the generations. Like a heartbeat, the refrain is a continual reminder that amid the dramas of our lives and of history, God’s loving pulse is the life force behind it all.

You can find lyrics, scores/books, mp3s, CDs for God’s Love Endures Forever on the Celtic Psalms webpage (www.celticpsalms.com)

Listen to Kiran and Celtic Psalms on TEDx

The journal is available in paperback format on Amazon!

Here’s the link to the paperback journal (available globally), and if you would be so kind as to leave a review on the Amazon platform in your region, that will help other readers find it! Thank you in advance!

For the time being, paid subscribers to Bless My Feet (Kiran’s spirituality newsletter) or Psalms for the Spirit still receive the free journal ebook (180 pages) with further questions for reflection and some invitations to prayer and practice. You will receive a weekly email with a downloadable mp3 of the song and journal pages, and occasional invitations to Zoom check-ins with others sharing this Psalms journey.

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