Saint Bernard (of Clairvaux)

A collection of sermons, letters, and other spiritual writings by Bernard of Clairvaux reveals the twelfth-century monk's celebration of the spiritual life, charity, the healing grace of God, and the role of grace and truth in the Christian life. Original. 10,000 first printing.

Selected Spiritual Writings of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux

Honey and Salt

The twelfth-century abbot and contemplative known to history as The Mellifluous Teacher' wrote sermons for the entire Christmas liturgical cycle -- from the first Sunday of Advent (four weeks before Christmas) to the Feast of the Purification of the Virgin Mary/Presentation of Christ in the Temple (2 February). As he reflects on the wonder of the Incarnation, he reminds Christians still today that Christmas celebrates the awesome condescension of God-with-us, not a commercial carnival.

Sermons for Advent and the Christmas Season

Bernard Clairvaux

Emero Stiegman

Saint Bernard's On Loving God is one of his most delightful, and most widely read, works. It stands in the tradition of the Fathers of the Church, but it carries patristic teaching into the Middle Ages and into the cloister. Its famous affirmation that God is to be loved without limit, sine modo, is taken directly from the letters of Saint Augustine. While the tract is not an example of scholastic theology, it shows a typically twelfth-century love of logic and an unexpectedly precise use of terminology. In his analystic commentary, Emero Stiegman not only introduces readers to the abbot of Clairvaux's thought, but carefully analyses his language, his logic and his theology. In doing so, he demonstrates the vital importance of reading medieval authors on their own terms, without superimposing on them categories favored by later generations, even our own.

On Loving God

A translation of 104 of the letters of Saint Bernard, chosen to reveal the many-sided character of their author, translated "to take the sense of the text and wield it into an idiom that can be understood by the ordinary men and women of today". -- introduction.

St. Bernard of Clairvaux Seen Through His Selected Letters

The Letters of St. Bernard of Clairvaux

The Works of Bernard of Clairvaux: On the Song of Songs II

M. Basil Pennington

Yael Katzir

A Saint's Life in Word and Image

Bernard of Clairvaux

Two lengthy letters from the abbot of Clairvaux illuminate the transition in theological method in the mid twelfth-century. In this letter to the bishop of Sens on the responsibilities of his office, Bernard articulates his monastic conviction that authority in the Church must be accompanied by contemplative virtues, especially a deeply ingrained humility. Pastors who do attend to their own spiritual health, he explains, are incapable of caring for others. In his letter of baptism, written to Hugh of Saint Victor, Bernard seeks to refute what he considered the doctrinal error of an unnamed scholar-likely Peter Abelard-and assails a theological method he deemed likely to mislead the faithful, because-as Emero Stiegman says in the Introduction-he considered all theological questions 'in the perspective of God's love'. These two letter-treatises (42 and 77) are not included in Bruno Scott James' English translation of The Letters of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux.

On Baptism and the Office of Bishops, on the Conduct and Office of Bishops, on Baptism and Other Questions : Two Letter-treatises

The Works of Bernard of Clairvaux: Five books on consideration : advice to a pope

St. Bernard's Sermons on the Canticle of Canticles

testi del sec. XIV in prosa ed in rima : aggiuntovi l'originale latino

Contenzione di un'anima e di un corpo

With Some Early Scottish Prophecies, &c

Bernardus De Cura Rei Famuliaris [!]

Sancti Bernardi abbatis primi Clarae-Vallensis opera omnia

Eighty-six Sermons on the Song of Solomon

Cantica Canticorum

The Works of Bernard of Clairvaux: On the Song of Songs IV

On the Song of Songs

On the Love of God

Oeuvres complètes de Saint Bernard

Sermones de tempore, de sanctis, de divorsis

Saint Aelred (of Rievaulx)

Saint Gertrude (the Great)

The White Monks' devotion to the Mother of God moved them to commit al their monasteries to her patronage. The most famous of them al, St. Bernard of Clairvaux, has been called the Marian Doctor. Reading his homilies, and the sermons and meditations of his twelfth-century brothers and thirteenth-century sisters, lets us hear them blending their voices into along and loving tradition. 'Proclaim her as reverenced by angels, desired by nations, foretold by patriarchs and prophets, chosen from among al, preferred above al. Magnify her for having found grace, for being mediatrix of salvation and reparatrix of the ages. Exalt her, finally, as one exalted to the heavenly realm, above the choirs of angels. al this the Church sings to me about her, and teaches me to sing in turn.' --Saint Bernard.

Meditating with the Early Cistercians

Mary Most Holy

Saint Bernard (of Clairvaux)

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