Be Thou My Breastplate: 40 Days of giving your life to God the Celtic way
Nov 2008 · Bloomsbury Publishing
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The title is taken from the hymn Be Thou My Vision, a famous reworking of the most familiar of all the ancient Celtic 'Breastplate Prayers', the Breastplate of St Patrick. This book draws upon the seventh century Breastplate of Saint Fursa. History doesn't go into great detail in its record of Fursa's life and Be thou my breastplate doesn't pretend otherwise. The text takes what is known of his story and reflects on his prayer in daily bite-size pieces. Each brief chapter unpacks and applies the prayer's contents for the reader, drawing out the fresh insights and profound challenges that come from encountering a Christian brother from another world. Though written in a disarming format and with gentle tone, the text is not without grit and guts, nor without an edge, coming as it does from a seemingly familiar yet quite foreign form of the Christian faith: the Celtic way of giving oneself to God, and invoking God's blessing and protection on the one offering the prayer.
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Paul Wallis was ordained in the UK but now lives and works in Australia. For the last twenty years he has been involved in church planting, chaplaincy, teaching and training. He is the founder of Jesus Generation, a network of household-based churches. He is married to Ruth, and is the author of Rough Ways in Prayer and Men Behaving Boldly and a contributing author for the SPCK Book of Christian Prayer (all for SPCK). His other books include My Dinner with Anton (Wild Goose), God's Radicals (OIKOS) and The New Monastic (Capstone Fiction). He has broadcast Godslots for the BBC and for Rhema FM in Australia. The author can be reached at his website www.paulwallis.net
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