ABSTRACT
Three 'p's could be taken as the distinguishing hallmarks of Celtic Christianity – presence, poetry and pilgrimage. They have all been rather neglected by the churches of the Western world over the last thousand years. The kind of ministry undertaken by the Celtic Church could perhaps best be described as a ministry of presence. Its monasteries were presences in society which witnessed to the Gospel as much just by being there as by activity and involvement in schemes and projects. In a culture dominated by television and visual imagery this is particularly important. People need too to recover more widely that rich Christian poetic imagination which still exists in Wales and to stop trying to tie down the ineffable mystery and beauty of God in mere prose. People too can both lose and find ourselves as pilgrims within the twists and turns of the Celtic knot.
