Various Sermons
Bernard of Clairvaux author Grace Remington, OCSO translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Liturgical Press
Published:15th Apr '20
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
This last small group of Bernard's sermons to be published in translation by Cistercian Publications rightly goes by the title De varii in the critical edition. While most of them treat feasts on the church calendar, they do so in a somewhat hit-or-miss fashion. Three sermons also deal with God's will, God's mercies, and the gifts of the Holy Spirit. Two sermons for the feast of Saint Victor are a response to a request to Bernard from the monks of Montiéramey; the Bollandist Life of Saint Victor appears here as a complement to those sermons. Besides the nine sermons normally assigned to the De varii, this volume also includes a sermon on the feast of Saint Benedict that was recently added to the collection in Sources Chrétiennes. The survival of this loose assemblage of sermons outside of the organized collections of Bernard's sermons provides a reminder of Bernard as preacher and writer, able despite all his other activities to turn his hand to preaching when called upon. While they treat of disparate themes, they allow us to encounter the quintessential Bernard-speaking of the life of desire, the true meaning of holiness, and the awakening of the spiritual senses in the search for God.
"Thevolumebringstoasuccessfulscholarlyconclusion the fifty-year endeavor of Cistercian publications to make the Bernardine Opus available in English."
Cistercian Studies Quarterly
"This slim volume is a milestone. This is a very readable and thoroughly introduced translation."
American Benedictine Review
ISBN: 9780879071844
Dimensions: 216mm x 140mm x 6mm
Weight: 142g
151 pages