On the search for Wisdom

Treasures of Our Faith with Deacon Richard Vehige · Feb 16, 2026 · 5m

On Monday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time our Church invites us to first read and reflect on a passage from the beginning of the book of Proverbs (3:1-20) entitled "How one finds wisdom". Our treasure, which follows, is from a sermon by Saint Bernard, abbot.

Saint Bernard was born in 1090 near Dijon in France. After a religious upbringing, he joined the Cistercians in 1111 and later was chosen abbot of the monastery of Clairvaux in southeast France in an area known as Bar-sur-Aube. There he directed his companions in the practice of virtue by his own good example. In the year 1128, Bernard…