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Aug 20, 2021 · He is a saint whose insights into God’s love have a refreshing relevance that revitalize our efforts to evangelize in our time. Here, I explore three gems of wisdom and light from his writings that can help our mission of evangelization to become more effective and fruitful. Love Has a Source.
Bernard is but one of the remarkable group of monastic authors from Benedictine, Cistercian, Carthusian, and other traditions, whose collective legacy places the 12th century alongside the fourth...
Jan 24, 2020 · Charles Ridley is native son of the Bible Belt who has spent nearly half his life in majority Catholic cities and countries. He is an officer in the US Foreign Service. Read more by Charles Ridley. Charles Ridley draws on Saint Bernard as an unlikely resource for ecumenism.
Bernard of Clairvaux, O.Cist. (Latin: Bernardus Claraevallensis; 1090 – 20 August 1153), venerated as Saint Bernard, was an abbot, mystic, co-founder of the Knights Templar, [a] and a major leader in the reform of the Benedictines through the nascent Cistercian Order.
Feb 25, 2023 · Saint Bernard of Clairvaux was a French abbot, theologian, and one of the most influential figures of the 12th century. He was born on August 20, 1090 in the castle of Fontaines-les-Dijon, France, and died on August 20, 1153. He was canonized on January 18, 1174 by Pope Alexander III.
Aug 20, 2021 · Bernard began the first Sermon by telling the brothers that he was addressing them in a different manner than he would “people in the world.”. He would follow Saint Paul in giving such people milk to drink “rather than solid food.”. The monks, however, would get something more substantial.
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St Bernard answers by speaking not of an immediate experience of God, but rather of experience at another level. He begins to share with us, in fact, some of the discernible effects of God's presence on his own interior life, effects which are both moral and spiritual.
