Sermons for Lent and the Easter Season

by Bernard of Clairvaux (Editor), Wim Verbaal (Foreword), John Leinenweber (Editor)

This volume contains Saint Bernard's sermons for the liturgical seasons of Lent and Easter. Included are sermons for the Purification, Septuagesima, the feast of Saint Benedict, and the feast of the Annunciation, all of which are interpreted by Bernard in light of the paschal mystery. In the sermons for Lent, especially, one gets to know a more hesitant and searching Bernard than appears in his other liturgical sermons.

This volume is the third of a projected five volumes of Bernard's liturgical sermons.

267 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 1, 2013

About the author

born 1090

Piety and mysticism of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux as widely known instrumental French monastic reformer and political figure condemned Peter Abélard and rallied support for the second Crusade.

This doctor of the Church, an abbot, primarily built the Cistercian order. After the death of mother, Bernard sought admission into the Cistercian order in 1112. Three years later, people sent Bernard found a new house, named Claire Vallée, "of Clairvaux," on 25 June 1115. Bernard preached that the Virgin Mary interceded in an immediate faith.

In 1128, Bernard assisted at the council of Troyes and traced the outlines of the rule of the Knights Templar, who quickly the ideal of Christian nobility.

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Reviews

[Cris · Rating 3 out of 5]

I enjoyed some of these sermons. Others I think went less over my head than over my heart. The most interesting exegesis in this volume was the image of the second Adam prefiguring St. Faustina, this was in the sermon written for the Octave. I can't remember ever hearing a modern sermon on the Septuagesima, so that was interesting. I smiled at how much St. Bernard understood about the physical process of nursing as he compared it to be being filled with spiritual food for his flock by their desire to consume it.