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    Intimacy in Prayer: Wisdom from Bernard of Clairvaux
    Intimacy in Prayer: Wisdom from Bernard of Clairvaux
    Intimacy in Prayer: Wisdom from Bernard of Clairvaux
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    Intimacy in Prayer: Wisdom from Bernard of Clairvaux

    By Bernard of Clairvaux

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    How can I have a more intimate relationship with God through prayer? In these selections from his sermons on the Song of Songs, Bernard awakens us to God’s tender embrace and God’s desire to have his affection reciprocated.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPauline Books and Media
    Release dateMar 25, 2019
    ISBN9780819837158
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      Book preview

      Intimacy in Prayer - Bernard of Clairvaux

      TODAY’S QUESTIONS. TIMELESS ANSWERS.

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      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Intimacy in prayer : wisdom from Bernard of Clairvaux / compiled and with a foreword by Ephrem Arcement, OSB.

      p. cm. -- (Classic wisdom collection)

      Includes bibliographical references.

      ISBN-13: 978-0-8198-3714-1

      ISBN-10: 0-8198-3714-8

      1. Spirituality--Catholic Church. 2. Prayer--Catholic Church. 3. Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 91-1153. 4. Spiritual life--Catholic Church. I. Arcement, Ephrem, editor of compilation.

      BX2350.65.I58 2013

      248.3’2--dc23

      2012049866

      Scripture quotations are transcribed from the original translations of Bernard of Clairvaux’s works.

      Excerpts from The Divine Comedy, Paradiso by Dante Alighieri and translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

      English translation of Bernard of Clairvaux’s works are published by Liturgical Press, Collegeville, MN. Reprinted with permission.

      Five Books on Consideration: Advice to a Pope, copyright © 1976 by Cistercian Publications

      On Loving God, copyright © 1974 by Cistercian Publications

      On the Song of Songs I, copyright © 1971 by Cistercian Publications

      On the Song of Songs II, copyright © 1976 by Cistercian Publications

      On the Song of Songs III, copyright © 1979 by Cistercian Publications

      On the Song of Songs IV, copyright © 1980 by Cistercian Publications

      Cover design by Rosana Usselmann

      Cover photo by Mary Emmanuel Alves, FSP

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

      P and PAULINE are registered trademarks of the Daughters of St. Paul.

      Foreword copyright © 2013, Kyle (Ephrem) Arcement, OSB, St. Joseph Abbey, St. Benedict, LA

      Copyright © 2013, Daughters of St. Paul

      Published by Pauline Books & Media, 50 Saint Pauls Avenue, Boston, MA 02130-3491

      Printed in the U.S.A.

      www.pauline.org

      Pauline Books & Media is the publishing house of the Daughters of St. Paul, an international congregation of women religious serving the Church with the communications media.

      For Abbot Justin Brown, OSB

      Contents

      Foreword

      I

      An Invitation to Love

      II

      Enduring Love

      III

      The Kiss of the Lord

      IV

      An Intimate Love

      V

      The Spirit of Love

      VI

      Rest in God

      VII

      The Touch of the Lord

      VIII

      The Wonder of God’s Love

      IX

      The Right Kind of Love

      X

      In the Room of the King

      XI

      The Capacity for God

      XII

      A Face-to-Face Encounter

      XIII

      Athirst for God

      XIV

      Alone with God

      XV

      A Loving Affirmation

      XVI

      The Embrace of God

      XVII

      Aflame with Holy Love

      XVIII

      Confidence in the Love of God

      XIX

      Desiring the Beloved’s Return

      XX

      In Search of the Beloved

      XXI

      The Secret of the Bridegroom

      XXII

      The Fountain of Love

      XXIII

      Found in God

      Notes

      Bibliography

      Foreword

      It was Dante Alighieri, the author of the medieval masterpiece The Divine Comedy, who first introduced me to Saint Bernard of Clairvaux. Before Dante, I knew Saint Bernard only as a prominent figure in the Church of the twelfth century. After Dante, I came to discover why the famous Cistercian monk and reformer wielded so much influence upon an entire continent—upon popes, cardinals, and statesmen alike.

      The Divine Comedy is required reading for everyone enrolled at Saint Joseph Seminary College, the college seminary run by the Benedictine monks of Saint Joseph Abbey in Saint Benedict, Louisiana, which I attended. Dante’s vision of the soul’s journey through Inferno (Hell), Purgatorio (Purgatory), and Paradiso (Heaven) was exhilarating to me as a young seminarian interested in the spiritual life. Most memorable to me was the way Dante uses Beatrice, a symbol of human love and divine revelation, as his initial guide in his journey toward Paradiso. Unlike others who view human love and love for God as conflicting realities, Dante’s world is fundamentally a sacramental one in which grace and blessing come to us in our most intimate relationships. For Dante, Paradiso becomes not an unexpected departure from life’s previous experiences, but rather a flowering of the hidden potential of human life itself. Intimacy with others blossoms into intimacy with God.

      In Paradiso, Saint Bernard is Dante’s choice to lead him into contemplative union with God. The choice is significant. Saint Bernard is, for Dante, among the most renowned of contemplatives—one who is absorbed in His delight.¹ Life’s goal is transcendent, and Beatrice can take us only so far.

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