The Holy Celtic Church in Canada is developing as a collection of monastic, home-based, churches and small parish or community churches, much as the early church developed. Some churches choose to start or join with us denominationally, others by way of intercommunion.  To us, it is not about exactly how you serve, but that you choose to do so as you are called. Our particular calling is to teach while using our resources to help others learn and live a life of faith in light of Celtic cultural holistic ways of being, letting others use their resources to ornament great cathedrals as they wish. The way of the Brehon Laws was of community cooperation peace and social justice, not money making things right.  We want to help people and our communities grow, not to build brick and mortar edifices. We are like-minded people who support the ways of the early Christian church, the preservation of a sacramental and apostolic faith, Apostolic Succession, the seven ecumenical councils, Grace in the sacraments and that the Holy Eucharist is more than a symbol--it is the Body and Blood of Christ as repeated and emphasized in John, chapter 6.   We do so within our Celtic heritage and communities, the ways of the early Church in the Celtic nations dating back to the first century AD.  We believe what the whole church has believed in all time before the great schisms, without Roman additions or Protestant subtractions even as we support people to follow the denomination to which they feel most called.  We do not expect nor want people to leave their mother church, believing the divisions were created to serve God's purposes and the different backgrounds and approaches of people coming to His light, His Word, our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. While spreading the Word, we merely choose to worship, praise, live, and love in our cultural uniqueness, the ways of our ancestors.  Our growth is based in our shared culture, we do not ask anyone to leave their mother denomination, nor do we wish to culturally appropriate the ways of other Nations.  This is our clan.  We seek, ourselves, to focus on what came first before such differences that divided us. We do not argue over Crucifix versus Cross, letting your heart tell you that which calls to you.  If it is with us, we welcome you.  If it is not, we still love you and will break bread with you.  We believe the church belongs in our homes, not in diverse or distant institutions.  Even our liturgical seminary is based in a home, a monastic residence where people can come to re-energize their faith, or to learn the skills needed to lead their own home-based church.  We simply do not see the need for spending the tithes of hard-working people on buying or maintaining massive ornate structures because things made with the hands of man cannot match the beauty of God's Creation. We believe gold ornamentation and high church spires are a bad use of funds consecrated to serving God's will, when Canadian church attendance is at an all time low, while people are suffering and starving in our streets.  We choose to invest in people, in helping those called to preach and teach to be able to do so.

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 Our vision is to bring churches and our faith into our homes and communities instead of distant buildings we visit on Sundays, or once or twice a year, akin to going to a dentist's office.  Christianity is a way of being, not a chore done on special occasions. We preach God as He is, Ipsum Esse Subsistens, (St., Thomas Aquinas), not God as we want Him to be, for such distortions are the ways of contemporary men and women who seek power and not the ways of the early Christian Church.  Our goal, God permitting, is to bring the church back into our homes and lives where she started--the Church is not a place to go, it is a way to live, the spirit in which we live.