Various sermons / Bernard of Clairvaux ; translated by Grace Remington, OCSO ; introduction by Alice Chapman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 1091-1153, author.

Contributor:

Remington, Grace, translator.

Series:

Cistercian Fathers series ; no. 84.

Cistercian fathers series ; number eighty-four

Standardized Title:

Sermons. Selections. English

Language:

English

Latin

Romani

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church--Sermons.

Catholic Church.

Sermons, Latin--Translations into English.

Sermons, Latin.

Genre:

Sermons.

Translations.

Physical Description:

li, 99 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Collegeville, Minnesota : Cistercian Publications, [2020]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction / by Alice Chapman

Sermon One: For Advent: On the Three Realms of the Dead

Sermon Two: For Epiphany

Sermon Three: For the Conversion of Saint Paul

Sermon Four: First Sermon for the Feast of Saint Victor

Sermon Five: Second Sermon for the Feast of Saint Victor

Sermon Six: On the Will of God

Sermon Eight: On the Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit

Sermon Nine: On Saint Malachy

Sermon Ten: For the Feast of Saint Benedict

Appendix: The Life of Saint Victor / by an Unknown but Ancient Author

Scriptural index

Subject index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Other Format:

Online version: Bernard, Various sermons

ISBN:

9780879071844

0879071842

OCLC:

1122800810