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Sermons on the Song of Songs, Volume 1

Sermons on the Song of Songs, Volume 1

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£23.99

Publisher: Liturgical Press
ISBN: 9780879072995
Number of Pages: 206
Published: 01/11/1978
Width: 14 cm
Height: 21.6 cm

Taking up Saint Bernard's unfinished sermon-commentary, Gilbert ruminates on verse 3:1-5:10 in forty-eight sermons, leaving the task to be finished by John of Ford.
This volume contains sermons 1 through 15. 

To encounter a person who makes holiness attractive is an enviable experience. Such a person was Gilbert of Hoyland, abbot of the Cistercian monastery of Swineshead in Lincolnshire, a friend of Aelred of Rievaulx, and the continuator of the sermons on the Song of Songs begun by Bernard of Clairvaux. 

When the great saint of Clairvaux died in 1153, his sermon commentary had reached only the first four verses of chapter three of the Canticle. Gilbert took up the task, but left the commentary unfinished at his death. It was brought to completion by another English abbot, John of Ford. 

Those who know and admire Bernard's eloquence and contemplative insight will enjoy making the acquaintance of his successors. While conscious of continuing Bernard's work and remaining true to his spirit, they infused their sermons with their own personalities and shared their own rich experiences of God. As Lawrence C. Braceland says in his introduction to this first English translation of Gilbert's work, 'Gilbert is an experience. He has found the Beloved.'

CONTENTS
Introduction   3
Notes to Introduction   35
SERMON 1   Peace and Leisure   43
SERMON 2   The restless quest   55
SERMON 3   The initiative   65
SERMON 4   Roaming the city of God   73
SERMON 5   Seek with wisdom and affection   85
SERMON 6   The Watchmen's visions   97
SERMON 7   Approach the Beloved   107
SERMON 8   Charity ascends to understanding   117
SERMON 9   Holding fast in love   127
SERMON 10  Holding and beholding   133
SERMON 11  Keeping sabbath free   141
SERMON 12  His shoulders and his breast   149
SERMON 13  Steadfastness with Christ in Crises   155
SERMON 14  The vigil in sleep   165
SERMON 15  Enamored, humbled, and renewed   177
Abbreviations   191
Selected Bibliography   193

Gilbert of Hoyland, Lawrence C. Braceland, SJ

Lawrence C. Braceland, (1912-1987) was professor of classics and dean at Ignatius College, Guelph (Canada), until in 1963 becoming professor of classics and dean of arts and sciences at St. Paul's College, the University of Manitoba. After his retirement in 1978, he devoted himself to Cistercian scholarship, publishing numerous articles and translating in four volumes all the works of the English Cistercian abbot Gilbert of Hoyland.

. . . readers will be grateful to Braceland for having rendered Gilbert's moving Latin into equally moving English.Speculum Gilbert's images are living and vibrant. . . It is not a book to be read hurriedly, but rather one to be savored and experienced.Contemplative Review

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