Sermons for Lent and the Easter Season

by Bernard of Clairvaux

Publishers:

Cistercian Publications; Liturgical Press

, 2013

Overview

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.

Product Details

• Title: Sermons for Lent and the Easter Season
• Author: Bernard of Clairvaux
• Series: Cistercian Fathers Series
• Volume: 52
• Publishers: Cistercian Publications, Liturgical Press
• Print Publication Date: 2013
• Logos Release Date: 2020
• Pages: 187
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Lenten sermons; Easter › Sermons; Sermons, Latin › Translations into English
• ISBNs: 9780879074524, 9780879077440, 0879074523, 0879077441
• Resource ID: LLS:BCLENTANDEASTER
• Resource Type: text.monograph.sermons
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T19:11:49Z

About Bernard of Clairvaux

Bernard of Clairvaux (1090–1153) was a French abbot, confessor, saint, and Doctor of the Church. He is honored as a founder of the Cistercian order because of his role in popularizing the order in the twelfth century. He takes his name from a monastery he founded on June 25, 1115—soon after joining the Cistercians. He named the monastery Claire Vallée, which evolved into Clairvaux. St. Bernard spent 40 years in cloister, but wielded considerable influence in the Church during that time—working to end a schism, combat heresy, and start the Second Crusade. After his death, he was canonized by Pope Alexander III in 1174. His numerous theological writings are so timeless and powerful that they earned him the title of Doctor of the Church in 1830, and Pope Pius XII wrote an encyclical on him, Doctor Mellifluus, in 1953.