Bernard of Clairvaux: Sermons for Advent and the Christmas Season (Paperback)
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Bernard of Clairvaux: Sermons for Advent and the Christmas Season (Paperback)  -     Edited By: John Leinenweber
    By: Bernard of Clairvaux

Bernard of Clairvaux: Sermons for Advent and the Christmas Season (Paperback)

Edited By: John Leinenweber
Liturgical Press / 2006 / Paperback

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Bernard of Clairvaux, a twelfth-century abbot and contemplative, wrote sermons for the entire Christmas liturgical cycle, beginning on the first Sunday of Advent and culminating on the Feast of the Purification of the Virgin Mary/Presentation of Christ in the Temple on February 2nd. This collection of sermons successively brings the reader to an understanding of how the Word, once incarnate in the person of Jesus, now re-incarnates through the written words about him. Open yourself up to the true nature of the divine Word. Translated by Irene Edmonds, Wendy Mary Beckett, and Conrad Greenia, OCSO; Edited by John Leinenweber; Introduction by Wim Verbaal. Paperback.

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Title: Bernard of Clairvaux: Sermons for Advent and the Christmas Season (Paperback)
By: Bernard of Clairvaux
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 184
Vendor: Liturgical Press
Publication Date: 2006
Dimensions: 9.00 X 6.00 (inches)
Weight: 12 ounces
ISBN: 0879074515
ISBN-13: 9780879074517
Series: Cistercian Fathers
Stock No: WW74519

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Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153) did not create a sermon collection solely in order to comment on the liturgical solemnities of the Christian year. He had a definite but very complex concept of the messages which he wanted his collection to convey: that the Word which once became incarnate in the historic Jesus is continuously present in the written words that speak of him–the word of the Gospels and also the words of preachers and writers; that the Word wants to be re-incarnate in the reader by means of the words being read. So it is that the sermons successively evoke the inner conversion of a human person who opens himself to the Word/words, external conversion in submission to the obedience of community life, and finally the personal recognition of the true nature of the divine Word. 

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E. Rozanne Elder is Professor of History and Director of the Centre for Cistercian and Monastic Studies at Western Michigan University.

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