The Liturgical Sermons: The First Clairvaux Collection, Advent--All Saints

by Aelred of Rievaulx

Publisher:

Cistercian Publications

, 2008

Overview

During his twenty years as abbot of the Yorkshire monastery of Rievaulx, Aelred preached many sermons: to his own monks, in other monasteries, and at significant gatherings outside the cloister. His disciple and biographer, Walter Daniel, mentions hundreds of sermons. In this volume, the first of several, we have twenty-eight of his sermons. They have been translated from the critical edition of a manuscript copied for the Abbey of Clairvaux in the latter part of the twelfth century’that is, not long after Aelred's death on 12 January 1167.

Cistercian abbots were expected to speak to their monks in chapter every morning, commenting on the passage of Saint Benedict’s Rule for Monasteries that had just been read to the monks. In addition, they were required to preach to the whole community’both monks and lay brothers’on fifteen principal days of the liturgical year as well as on the anniversary of the dedication of the monastery’s church.

This 'First Collection of Clairvaux' includes sermons for fourteen of these days: the First Sunday of Advent’ the inauguration of the liturgical year’ and Palm Sunday’ the inauguration of Holy Week; five Christological feasts of Christmas, Epiphany, the Annunciation, Easter, and Ascension; three Marian feasts: her Purification, Assumption, and Nativity; the Feasts of All Saints, Saint Benedict of Nursia, the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist, and Saints Peter and Paul.

Key Features

• Offers 28 sermons from Aelred of Rievaulx
• Includes sermons for fourteen days of the liturgical year
• Presents the translation from the critical edition of a manuscript copied for the Abbey of Clairvaux in the latter part of the twelfth century

Contents

• Sermon One: For the Coming of the Lord
• Sermon Two: For the Coming of the Lord
• Sermon Three: For the Nativity of the Lord
• Sermon Four: For the Epiphany of the Lord
• Sermon Five: For the Purification of Saint Mary
• Sermon Six: For the Feast of Saint Benedict
• Sermon Seven: For the Feast of Saint Benedict
• Sermon Eight: For the Feast of Saint Benedict
• Sermon Nine: For the Annunciation of the Lord
• Sermon Ten: For Palm Sunday
• Sermon Eleven: For the Feast of Easter
• Sermon Twelve: For the Feast of Easter
• Sermon Thirteen: For the Ascension of the Lord
• Sermon Fourteen: For the Nativity of Saint John Baptist
• Sermon Fifteen: For the Feast of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul
• Sermon Sixteen: For the Feast of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul
• Sermon Seventeen: For the Feast of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul
• Sermon Eighteen: For the Feast of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul
• Sermon Nineteen: For the Assumption of Saint Mary
• Sermon Twenty: For the Assumption of Saint Mary
• Sermon Twenty-One: For the Assumption of Saint Mary
• Sermon Twenty-Two: For the Nativity of Holy Mary
• Sermon Twenty-Three: For the Nativity of Holy Mary
• Sermon Twenty-Four: For the Nativity of Saint Mary
• Sermon Twenty-Five: For the Feast of All Saints
• Sermon Twenty-Six: For the Feast of All Saints
• Sermon Twenty-Seven: For the of All Saints
• Sermon Twenty-Eight: To the Clerics at the Synod

Product Details

• Title: The Liturgical Sermons: The First Clairvaux Collection, Advent—All Saints
• Author: Aelred of Rievaulx
• Series: Cistercian Fathers Series
• Volume: 58
• Publisher: Cistercian Publications
• Print Publication Date: 2008
• Logos Release Date: 2023
• Pages: 394
• Era: era:medieval
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subjects: Catholic Church › Sermons; Church year sermons; Sermons, Latin › Translations into English
• ISBNs: 9780879074586, 0879074582
• Resource ID: LLS:LTRGCLSRMNSSNTS
• Resource Type: text.monograph.sermons
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T20:16:43Z

About Aelred of Rievaulx

Aelred (1110 – 12 January 1167), also Aelred, Ælred, Æthelred, etc. , was an English writer, abbot of Rievaulx (from 1147 until his death), and saint.