The Liturgical Sermons

“These sensitively rendered sermons, from Advent through Trinity Sunday, bring Aelred’s rich appreciation of the liturgical year to modern readers. Daniel Griggs’ translations are measured, thoughtful, and evocative; they seem to capture the warm and learned voice of Abbot Aelred with his brothers in chapter. The rich and learned introduction by Marjory Lange and Marsha Dutton is invaluable to readers at every level. This work is particularly illuminating in dealing with subtle authorship issues in the Reading-Cluny Collection.”
J. Stephen Russell, Professor of English, Hofstra University
“This book contributes to Aelredian scholarship by providing a crucial tool for the study of Aelred's late sermons. The translation is clear and accessible, and the introduction and notes help to elucidate the evolution of Aelred's thought over the whole of his sermon literature.”
Ella Johnson, author of This is My Body: Eucharistic Theology and Anthropology in the Writings of Gertrude the Great of Helfta, St. Ambrose University
“This volume is a wonderful new resource for accessing the preaching of one of the most appealing abbots of the middle ages. It makes available for the first time in English Aelred’s long-lost and recently found discourses on many of the great events of the monastic calendar. Here we see the bread of God’s word as it was prepared by one of the great biblical imaginations of medieval monasticism. These sermons richly represent early Cistercian thought and also give us unique new insights into how monks in the twelfth century dealt with their authoritative sources. As we see Aelred work with his sources in these discourses, we see a wonderful new illustration of the active intellectual and theological life of the early Cistercians.”
Fr. Joseph Van House, Cistercian Abbey, Our Lady of Dallas
"By making this literature available in clear, contemporary English translations, Cistercian Publications is allowing not only scholars but a broad spectrum of readers to engage with this significant portion of the legacy of one of the wisest and most attractive figures of the early Cistercian movement, and so to challenge and inspire a far larger audience than he was able to reach, or could even imagine reaching, in his own time."
Catholic Books Review  
“This book will be a valuable addition to the libraries of those with an interest in Aelred and the early Cistercians or in medieval sermon studies. In addition, since the book follows the cycle of the liturgical year, offering homilies on the major feasts that we still celebrate today, it would make a pleasant choice for spiritual reading, particularly during the Easter season.”
Cistercian Studies Quarterly