This prayer is adapted from one used by the Corrymeela Community in Ballycastle, Northern Ireland and another by Grace Clunie of Armagh, Northern Ireland. It draws on the Celtic tradition of the caim, or encircling, prayer that may be familiar in the blessing of St. Patrick. It also bears resemblance to the Native American “Blessing to the Four Directions.”
The “Prayer In Six Directions” is an embodied prayer, and ideally, it would...
