Sacred Spaces: Stations on a Celtic Way

by Margaret Silf

Combines lavish illustrations with an introduction to seven traditional "sacred spaces" including the Infinite Knot, the Celtic Cross, Hilltops, Wells, Groves and Springs, Threshholds and Crossing Places, and Boundaries, in a volume that considers what they mean in everyday life.

Genres: Christian, Spirituality, Christianity

192 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 2001

Reviews

[Marion Mahan · Rating 5 out of 5]

As I’ve been trying to incorporate Sabbath over the last few weeks I have read a chapter of this book. Each chapter has had beautiful insights which have spoken deeply to my personal journey at the time. A beautiful book.

[Vainvt · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was recommended for a Celtic pilgrimage, and it appealed to me because we planned to visit sacred spaces. I appreciated her descriptions of hilltops, wells, groves and springs, crossing places and boundaries, but had a lot of trouble with her retelling of biblical stories. The biblical stories were retold in her voice. While I appreciate commentary, I did not appreciate hearing additions and descriptions that were imaginary.

April 2022 - I reread this to prepare for a presentation and another pilgrimage and appreciated the way she retold biblical stories. She retold them in a way that made them current and more meaningful. I want to revise my review to say how much I appreciated her bible stories.

[Zareen · Rating 5 out of 5]

I wish I had started reading this book earlier. I found it very helpful & thoughtful.

Margaret Silf looked at seven Sacred Spaces which she explored in great depth. These sacred spaces are:
The Infinite knot
The Celtic Cross
Hilltops
Wells
Groves & Springs
Thresholds & crossing places
Boundaries.

The book, a meditation on these 7 Sacred spaces were fully illustrated with colour photos.

[Barbara]

"Barbara Curwen
April 2009
Church Book Study"

[Amanda Witt · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great thoughtful book about seven different 'spaces' including hilltops, wells, springs and boundaries. Features Biblical quotes and excerpts from the author's personal life experiences.

[Cynthia · Rating 3 out of 5]

The book was a helpful guide for spiritual reflection of the events in a my life. I can see myself using this book as a reference to look up different stations as I encounter them, on my spiritual journey through life events. I need to remember "we are affirming our trust that creation means well with us all, and that whatever painful growth and change may lie ahead, it is leading us to Life, not destruction."

[Kerith · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was a lovely book and I really appreciated the symbolism, much as I love Celtic spirituality. I just wish the author had gone ahead and embraced her own Christianity. She admits at the beginning that she is a Christian and looks at these symbols through that lens, and even tells stories from the Bible, but these come out strangely new agey. I kept at it and finished but was disappointed...

[Diana · Rating 3 out of 5]

a small hardcover book.

[Mary Beth · Rating 4 out of 5]

One of the first books I read of Silf's that invited me into her creative expression and my inner life.