The Millstone has several meanings to Christians:

Its presence with the Cross is a warning:
"But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea."
(Mt 18:6; Mk 9:42; Lk 17:2) One must not impede, or misdirect those who believe Christ by short-changing them in the Faith or providing an excuse or motivation to sin.

The Millstone also grinds grain into flour which is made into bread. This is the primary reason that it is in the Cross, for the Celtic Cross is a symbol of the Eucharist.

It is stated in an early essay on the Celtic Liturgy that the Eucharist is broken into particles which were set on the Paten in the form of a Celtic Cross and that which we receive "is a portion of Christ from His Cross, and that there may be a Cross in the labor of each in his own life since it is that Cross which unites each one of us to the Crucified Body of Christ."

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