Q. What does your church believe in?
A. The Celtic Church believes the Holy Bible to be the inspired word of God and the living word of God. Our teachings are orthodox, which simply means the correct worship or correct thinking, in that it neither adds nor subtracts from the faith given by Christ to His Apostles.
The Apostles Creed I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth.
And in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord; who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried; he descended into hell; the third day he rose again from the dead; he ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty; from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Ghost; the holy Catholic Church; the communion of saints; the forgiveness of sins; the resurrection of the body; and the life everlasting. AMEN.
Q. How is the Celtic Church different from other mainline denominations?
A. The Celtic Church is an expression of the early faith that was given to the Apostles by our Savior. The early Celtic Church was flourishing in the Celtic lands early by the second century and a part of the larger western Orthodox church. The Celtic Church is a part of the ancient heritage and rich tradition of the early Christian (Catholic) church. The Celtic Church has existed In one form or another from within a decade of Christ's death and ressurection, it existed as an established church until the reformation, at which point it retreated into small Highland communities, until the 1800's when it was driven underground. We are now seeing a renwed interst in Celtic Christianity.
Q. Do you believe like the rest of the church?
A. We are essentially an Anglican / Catholic expression of the faith. We believe in the Seven Sacraments and the Apostle's and Nicene Creeds, but our services range from traditional mass settings to contemporary Christian worship services. We are essentially "Catholic" in the truest sense and meaning of the word. We are "universal".
What does Catholic mean?
What's the difference between Celtic and Roman Catholic?
The word Catholic comes from Greek, and means universal, whole, complete. In the beginning of Christianity, for the first 1400 years or so, all the Church was called Catholic. It meant that the Church preached the entire doctrine of Christ to all people all over the world for all time. The heretics, on the other hand, usually eliminated certain beliefs they could not agree with, or only appealed to the intellectual or down-trodden, or had impossibly high moral standards for membership so nobody qualified. Catholic is, therefore, the name given to the original geographical divisions of the Church, before the Protestant Reformation. In the east, the Catholic Churches are generally called Orthodox. The Celtic Church is that part of the original Catholic Church founded among the Celts. The Roman Catholic Church is the same, founded among the Roman (Italian) people and the territories they controlled in the Empire.
Q. Isn't Celtic a New Age spirituality?