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Sermons on the Song of Songs, Volume 3: Volume 26

Sermons on the Song of Songs, Volume 3: Volume 26

Gilbert of Hoyland
Braceland, Lawrence C., Sj
Braceland, Lawrence C., Sj

Paperback

Series: Cistercian Fathers, Book 26

Religion General Bible StudiesCatholicism

ISBN10: 0879071265
ISBN13: 9780879071264
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Published: Dec 15 2019
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.48 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

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 33 through 48.

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.'

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