Poet Craig A Roberts, Scriptorium Aotearoa
Mediations and prayers for the Celtic pilgrim voyage by Poet Craig A. Roberts from Scriptorium Aotearoa. The readings from published books and latest writings become catalysts that trigger unique and individual spiritual reactions in each listener.
Scriptorium Aotearoa is the place where poet Craig A. Roberts prayerfully writes. It lies between the mountains and the sea of Aotearoa New Zealand. His books have been published in New York, Dublin and New Zealand and made their way to be heard in quiet spaces around the globe.
Craig writes and speaks through a Celtic lens on the transforming power of Solas Chrìost (Christ’s Light) as we voyage through the straits between inner and outer worlds. He embraces his heritage passed down by his forebears from the Perthshire Highlands, Glasgow and Northumbria.
His latest book WAYMARKS for the Celtic Pilgrim Journey: Meditations and Prayers from Aotearoa New Zealand has made its way to be heard in quiet spaces around the globe.
Ray Simpson ( Author of The Way of Life for the Third Millenium, and the Celtic Book of Days) says, “This book reveals vulnerability. It brings prophetic challenge. Above all it wings us into the Presence… It will inspire you to explore untrodden places in your life. The author is steeped in Celtic Christian traditions and uses tools such as a letter to one’s Anam-charaid, Lectio Divina, the Crossing Place, and journaling. Craig cultivates our understanding of phronema used by Eastern Church– the mind of Christ that plumbs the depth of the soul, the width of the universe, and the essence of Jesus’ Way. In the West, Celtic Christianity nurtures a similar spirituality that makes room for poetry – the ‘eye of the eagle’ and ‘the five-stringed harp– ’ the use of sound, sight, hearing, touch and scent in our lives with God on earth."
The book's editor Editor, Ellyn Sanna from Anamchara Books, New York writes: "As the ancient Celts knew, the most glorious journey is the one that brings us into the unexplored regions of our spiritual lives. The journey may lead through forests and along seacoasts, through pastureland and city streets; it is lit by the beaming sun, the silvery cycle of the moon’s phases, and the spangle of starshine.
The same journey also leads us deeper into our own hearts, into the hidden recesses of our consciousness—and the journey leads as well into encounters with other beings, where we are challenged to release our ego’s demands even as we see Divinity looking back at us from another’s eyes. For that is the goal of this journey—to deepen our awareness of the Divine Presence in Creation, within ourselves, in our relationships, and in our communities.”
Readers have said:
"Waymarks is a beautifully crafted book that invites its readers to rest and reflect, to breathe and be restored. Roberts' poetic musings whisper to the soul, "Remember!" Quietly, this book calls the body, soul, and spirit into one. Thank you.” (USA)
“…I have loved the book, especially to return to and ponder and slowly access… It is a thing of beauty…. I’m caught between awe and the dissonance … I enter a private slow-paced world which I can only tentatively touch at least as yet…” (UK)
"This book is liturgy and poetry. It is challenging and beautiful, and leads us deeper into a spirituality that has to be experienced by the heart and body. When the heart knows something, then what becomes lodged in the mind is perhaps authentic.” (UK)
Now come listen and in your own space voyage on the waves.
The Scriptorium Aotearoa logo represents the long-haul migratory voyage of the Kuaka from the Arctic to Aotearoa.
Poet Craig A Roberts, Scriptorium Aotearoa
Letter to Anam-charaid: Waymark -Voyage
Fàilte / Welcome to Scriptorium Aotearoa Podcast with Craig A. Roberts.
Season 1 presents eight Letters to Anam-charaid (Scots-Gaelic for Soul friend) from my book Waymarks for the Celtic Pilgrim Journey: Meditations and Prayers from Aotearoa New Zealand. The first letter speaks to the Waymark, “Voyage”.
Letter to Anam-charaid
Dear Anam-charaid,
Your innerscape,
an interior world
a wilderness
awaiting an exodus
of tongue, heart and deed
into alternate ways
of Heaven on Earth -
Not forged by counterpressures
of secular minds.
No. A voyage formed
by the phronema
of Crìost.
https://www.amazon.com/Waymarks-Celtic-Pilgrim-Journey-Meditations-ebook/dp/B0D9DV9QDM