St. Bernard’s Sermons on the Canticle of Canticles, Volume 2

by Bernard of Clairvaux

Publisher:

Browne and Nolan

, 1920

Overview

Translated from the original Latin into English, these sermons on the “Song of Solomon, instead of being dry-as-dust homilies, are as varied and many-colored as is the spiritual life, every aspect of which they discuss with equal solidity and elegance.” Volume two of St. Bernard’s Sermons on the Canticle of Canticles contains sermons 44–86.

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Key Features

• Offers 42 sermons from this Doctor of the Church
• Brings the Song of Solomon to life
• Provides insight into the Middle Ages

Praise for the Print Edition

He treats theological subjects after the manner of the ancients, on which account, and because of the great excellence of his writings he is reckoned amongst the Fathers. And though the youngest of them in time, he is one of the most useful to those who desire to study and to improve their hearts in sincere piety.

—Alban Butler

What can so enliven our devotion, excite our contrition, or inflame our love as the life and teaching of the blessed Father St. Bernard? Where shall we find one more efficacious in exhorting to virtue, in dissuading from vice, in lifting our affections from earth to heaven?

—Henricus de Hassia

The sermons are tremulous with the incessant glimmer of allegories. . . . so rich in their spiritual suggestiveness that they strike upon the mind like rays straight from heaven, and belonging to that ‘light that never was on sea or shore.’

—Samuel J. Eales

Product Details

• Title: St. Bernard's Sermons on the Canticle of Canticles, vol. 2
• Author: Bernard of Clairvaux
• Publisher: Browne and Nolan
• Publication Date: 1920
• Pages: 539
• Christian Group: Catholic
• Resource Type: Sermons
• Topic: Medieval Church

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.