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I shall stand upon my watchtower to see what the Lord will say to me
On Tuesday of the Twenty-Third Week in Ordinary Time our Church invites us to first read and reflect on a passage from the beginning of book of the prophet Habakkuk (1:1—2:4a) entitled "A prayer in time of desolation". Our treasure, which follows, is from a sermon by Bernard, abbot. Bernard of Clairvaux, venerated as Saint Bernard, was an early eleventh century abbot, mystic, co-founder of the Knights Templar, and a major leader in the reformation of the Benedictine Order through the nascent Cistercian Order. He was sent to found Clairvaux Abbey in southeast France in an area known as…
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