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The stages of contemplation
On Wednesday of the Twenty-Third Week in Ordinary Time our Church invites us to first read and reflect on a passage from the book of the prophet Habakkuk (2:5-20) entitled "Curses against the oppressors". 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 Bar-sur-Aube. In the…
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