Sermons for the Autumn Season (Cistercian Fathers Series)

Bernard of Clairvaux/ Scott, Mark A. (EDT)/ Verbaal, Wim (INT)

Liturgical Press（2016/03発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 456 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780879074548
• DDC分類 255.12

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On the anniversary of the dedication of the monastery church at Clairvaux, Saint Bernard spoke to the community to explain the meaning of the feast: "What sanctity can these stones have that we should celebrate their festival? They do indeed have sanctity, but it is because of your bodies. . . . Your bodies are holy because of your souls, and this house is holy because of your bodies."The thirty-eight sermons in this volume carry forth this theme, revealing the holiness of the monastic life as monks alternate through the rhythm of the day and the year between the opus Dei and manual labor, journeying faithfully through life to death and the transitus to glory. The twelfth-century Ecclesiastica Officia of the Cistercian Order required abbots to speak formally to their communities in chapter on seventeen fixed days, mostly liturgical feasts. This volume witnesses to Bernard's fulfillment of this requirement and includes sermons for the Assumption and Nativity of the Virgin and the Feast of All Saints, sermons devoted to the feasts of particular saints celebrated during the autumn months, sermons for the time of harvest, and funeral sermons that look forward to the eternal joy in the communion of saints.

Contents

Contents
General Introduction   ix
Editor's Note and Acknowledgments   lxvii
Table of Abbreviations   lxix
     The Sermons
On the Time of Harvest (In lab mess)   1
     Sermon One: How a Twofold Evil Works for Good   1
     Sermon Two: Of the Two Tables   4
     Sermon Three: This is the generation of those who seek the Lord, of those who seek the face of the God of Jacob (Ps 23:6)   7
On the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Asspt)   14
     Sermon One: Of the Double Assumption   14
     Sermon Two: Of Cleaning, Adorning, and Furnishing the House   18
     Sermon Three: Of Mary, Martha, and Lazarus   26
     Sermon Four: Of the Four Days of Lazarus and the Celebration of the Virgin   33
     Sermon Five: On the Same as Before   41
     Sermon Six: To Establish "full of grace" in Mary in Three Ways   53
Sunday within the Octave of the Assumption (OAsspt)   55
     Of the words of the Apocalypse: A great wonder appeared in heaven, a woman clothed with the sun,
       and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars (Rev 12:1)   55
On the Nativity of Blessed Mary (NatBVM)   70
     Of the Bringing of Water   70 
A Sermon to the Abbots (Abb) 85
     How Noah, Daniel, and Job Crossed the Sea, Each in His own Way: on a Ship, by a Bridge, by the Shallows   85
On the Feast of Saint Michael (Mich)   91
     Sermon One: Of the Threefold Reasons that the Angels Care for Us   91
     Sermon Two: Of the Words of the Lord, If anyone offends one of these little ones (Matt 18:6)   97
     Sunday of the First Week of November (1 Nov)   101
     Sermon One: Of the Vision of Isaiah   101
     Sermon Two   104
     Sermon Three   109
     Sermon Four   114
     Sermon Five   118
On the Feast of All Saints (OS)   130
     Sermon One: Of the Gospel Reading: Jesus Seeing the Crowds   130
     Sermon Two: Of the State of the Saints before their Resurrection   146
     Sermon Three: In What Way Shall They Be without Blemish or Wrinkle? (Eph 5:27)   154
     Sermon Four: Of Abraham's bosom, and of the altar beneath which Blessed John heard the voices of such souls of the saints,
          and of the seven loaves from which we read that the same number of baskets remained   159
     Sermon Five: Of the Advantage of Their Memory   167
For the Dedication of a Church (Ded)   178
     Sermon One: Of the Five Sacraments of the Dedication   178
     Sermon Two: How We Should Cling to Ourselves and Others   184
     Sermon Three: Of Three Sorts of Equipment We Possess for Godly Vigilance   188
     Sermon Four: Of the Threefold Dwelling-Place   193
     Sermon Five: Of the Twofold Consideration of Oneself   200
     Sermon Six: Concerning the word of Jacob: Truly the Lord is in this place (Gen 28:16)   210
On the Feast of Saint Martin, Bishop (Mart)   213
     Of Examples of Obedience 213 
On the Feast of Saint Clement (Clem)   229
     Of the Three Waters   229
Sermon on the Passing of Saint Malachy the Bishop (Mal)   235
On the Vigil of Saint Andrew the Apostle (VAnd)  244
     How We Should Prepare for the Solemnities of the Saints with Fasting   244
On the Feast of Saint Andrew (And)   249
     Sermon One: Concerning Clean Fish   249
     Sermon Two: Of the Four Arms of the Cross   258
On the Death of Master Humbert (Humb)   266
Index of Scriptural References in Bernard's Liturgical Sermons (CF 51-54)   275
Index of Subjects in Bernard's Liturgical Sermons (CF 51-54)   334