• The world can be an opportunity for encountering God's Grace.
• We are supposed to be co-workers with God, to heal and bless the world.
• All of our acts should be appropriate to be worthy offerings to God.
• We are united in the Body of Christ by sharing the same Faith and Sacraments regardless of time or place, in a holy "chain of charity."
• No person is ever cut off from God's Love and Grace.  Anyone can  answer God's call, turn to Him before the Last Judgement and receive Salvation.
• Prayer for the dead can assist in saving lost souls from Hell.
  
• Only the combination of fidelity to the Christian Faith and the succession of Grace in the Apostolic succession of Bishops is sufficient for a church to be a member of the Body of Christ.

What is the Celtic Orthodox Christian Church?
The Undivided Church still survives: the Celtic Orthodox Christian Church bears witness to the original, unchanged Christian Faith.
We are a community united by Faith, called to love, worship and serve God and receive His Holy Sacraments. Our primary concern is the preservation and spreading of the Christian Faith and Sacraments for the spiritual health of others. We welcome all who wish to live and worship according to the teachings of Christ and the Holy Spirit. We are a church for all peoples and nations. We are the continuation of the  churches who originally  brought God's Word and Sacraments to people in Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas before the year 1000.
In the Latin used by the Celtic churches, the word Gallus means both a Celt and a rooster. This is important to understand us, because like the ancient Celtic Christians, we see ourselves as being like the simple rooster who heralds the Dawn of the coming of Christ. Whether Jesus Christ returns today or a thousand years from now, all must be ready because we do not know the hour.

What is your form of worship?
We worship using the Liturgy of the Lorrha "Stowe" Missal. It is one of the earliest and most complete expressions of the Christian Faith, coming directly from the tradition of the Holy Apostles. It is also the only surviving Celtic Liturgy. Services for the other Sacraments, daily prayer and other needs are from similar sources.

Why do you call yourselves Celtic and Orthodox?
"Celtic"  is not just a reference to our primary form of worship.  Like the original Celtic churches, we hold the same Orthodox Christian Faith and administer the same Sacraments as the Undivided Church.
"Orthodox" means "Correct Worship". It does not mean "Eastern".
So we support all forms of Christian Worship that follow the original  Christian criteria for true Christian Ministry.  Saint Irenaeus of Lyons in Gaul, an ancient Celtic country, stated that churches are members of the Body of Christ if they are united to it by Faith and Grace.
This means that a valid Christian church:

1. Proclaims complete Christian Doctrine without any compromise.
2. Administers Sacraments by virtue of Apostolic Succession (Sacramental genealogy of Bishops back to Jesus Christ, God the Son).  
3. Administers the Eucharist only to those who are Baptized and Chrismated/Confirmed members of similar churches.
4. Shares the Eucharist only with churches that follow these criteria.
   

This is not only a Celtic belief but once was a belief of all churches that called themselves Christian.

What do you say about your detractors?
"If the world hate you, know ye, that it hath hated me before you." [John 15:18]

More About Us
On the Canonicity of the Celtic Orthodox Christian Church
Why are Married People allowed to be Cele De?
Is the Ordination of Married Priests as Bishops Appropriate?
Why we do not Ordain Women as Priests or Bishops

About Others
Questions Regarding Other Churches
Questions Regarding "Alternative Lifestyles"