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I love because I love, I love that I may love
Today, August 20, as our Church celebrates the Memorial of Bernard, Abbot and Doctor, we are invited to first read and reflect on a passage from the book of Sirach (39:1-10), entitled "The wisdom of the man learned in Scriptures". Our treasure, which follows, is from a sermon by Saint Bernard, abbot.
Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1090–1153) was a French Cistercian monk, abbot, mystic, preacher, and one of the most influential spiritual teachers of the Middle Ages, who founded and led the monastery of Clairvaux and helped renew monastic life through a return to simplicity, prayer, discipline…
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