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How can I have a more intimate relationship with God through prayer? In these selections from his sermons on the Song of Songs, Bernard awakens us to God’s tender embrace and God’s desire to have his affection reciprocated.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Intimacy in prayer : wisdom from Bernard of Clairvaux / compiled and with a foreword by Ephrem Arcement, OSB.
p. cm. -- (Classic wisdom collection)
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN-13: 978-0-8198-3714-1
ISBN-10: 0-8198-3714-8
1. Spirituality--Catholic Church. 2. Prayer--Catholic Church. 3. Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 91-1153. 4. Spiritual life--Catholic Church. I. Arcement, Ephrem, editor of compilation.
BX2350.65.I58 2013
248.3’2--dc23
2012049866
Scripture quotations are transcribed from the original translations of Bernard of Clairvaux’s works.
Excerpts from The Divine Comedy, Paradiso by Dante Alighieri and translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
English translation of Bernard of Clairvaux’s works are published by Liturgical Press, Collegeville, MN. Reprinted with permission.
Five Books on Consideration: Advice to a Pope, copyright © 1976 by Cistercian Publications
On Loving God, copyright © 1974 by Cistercian Publications
On the Song of Songs I, copyright © 1971 by Cistercian Publications
On the Song of Songs II, copyright © 1976 by Cistercian Publications
On the Song of Songs III, copyright © 1979 by Cistercian Publications
On the Song of Songs IV, copyright © 1980 by Cistercian Publications
Cover design by Rosana Usselmann
Cover photo by Mary Emmanuel Alves, FSP
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For Abbot Justin Brown, OSB
Contents
Foreword
I
An Invitation to Love
II
Enduring Love
III
The Kiss of the Lord
IV
An Intimate Love
V
The Spirit of Love
VI
Rest in God
VII
The Touch of the Lord
VIII
The Wonder of God’s Love
IX
The Right Kind of Love
X
In the Room of the King
XI
The Capacity for God
XII
A Face-to-Face Encounter
XIII
Athirst for God
XIV
Alone with God