Tuesday, 20 August 2013
A Compendium of Supertradmum on St. Bernard of Clairvaux
Happy Feast Day, St. Bernard of Clairvaux. Here is an incomplete list of the posts on this blog concerning him. (Does not include any from September 2013 to August 20, 2014)
26 Feb 2013
I am sure that readers can tell by now that I cannot write enough on my
favourite male saints, Bernard of Clairvaux. I hope you have received
his insights and experiences of God with the pleasure and amazement with
which I ...
20 Mar 2013
St. Bernard of Clairvaux on the Knights Templar. Posted by Supertradmum ·
http://www.the-orb.net/encyclop/religion/monastic/bernard.html.
Prologue TO HUGH, KNIGHT OF CHRIST AND MASTER OF CHRIST'S MILITIA: ...
23 Feb 2013
Therefore, when I read St. Bernard of Clairvaux and some of his
commentators, one of the things which comes across very clearly is that
he understands the progress of holiness as explained in these few words.
Know, love ...
22 Feb 2013
Part 47: DoC: St. Bernard of Clairvaux, continued, and perfection.
Posted by Supertradmum. Those of us who are workaholics have the hardest
time with meditation and contemplation. But, was there ever a man
busier than St.
24 Feb 2013
Words for the Papabile from St. Bernard of Clairvaux: Part 51: DoC.
Posted by Supertradmum. If I remember, the subject of my discourse. to
your Excellency was to be Consideration. And certainly. the matter to
which I have ...
19 Aug 2012
Can you imagine in the cold and damp monastery of Clairvaux, in the
refectory or monastery church, St. Bernard reading to his monks an
exposition of The Song of Songs? I wonder at his audacity as well as his
mystic insights ...
23 Nov 2012
The reason I encourage reading is that is the first step on the chair to
Contemplation as taught by St. Bernard of Clairvaux. We must read the
right books, however. Some people get bogged down in conversion stories.
That is ...
28 Feb 2013
I know I started the postings on St. Augustine, which will continue on
Friday, but today I was reading in the sermon of St. Bernard of
Clairvaux, On Detraction. I am only going to refer to two ideas, both
repetitions on this blog.
23 Nov 2012
Here is the quotation from St. Bernard of Clairvaux, from a homily of
his at Easter. "We look for God where He is not to be found, or rather,
we do not look for Him where He is chiefly to be found; hence, all the
confusion, all the ...
21 Feb 2013
As those of you who read my blog know, St. Bernard of Clairvaux is my
favourite saint. I discovered him when in a particularly Romantic period
of my life was unfolding and he captured my imagination as well as my
intellect.
24 Feb 2013
Part 52: DoC: Bernard of Clarivaux and the Perfection of Love. Posted by
Supertradmum. From St. Bernard of Clairvaux on Love from Sermon 83 on
the Canticle of Canticles. Love is sufficient of itself, it gives
pleasure by itself ...
26 Feb 2013
Posted by Supertradmum. On this blog, I have already referred to the
sermons of St. Bernard of Clairvaux on the Song of Songs, or. Canticle
of Canticles. These sermons may be considered his masterpiece as a
Doctor of the ...
29 Aug 2012
St. Bernard of Clairvaux has a fascinating sermon on two aspects of love
regarding St. John and St. Peter. St. Bernard, in St. Peter and St.
John, XLI, In Joannic Evang; Tract CXXIV. Bernard says the Peter loved
Christ more ...
20 Jan 2013
St. Bernard of Clairvaux would have made an excellent 21st century
psychologist He understood human nature and nurture. He understood the
workings of the soul, the psyche. He understood the need for the seeking
of ...
23 Dec 2012
As the year comes to an end soon, and the Feast of St. John is upon us
after Christmas, I want to revisit a strange saying of St. Bernard of
Clairvaux He has a fascinating sermon on two aspects of love regarding
St. John and ...
04 Feb 2013
All the members of St. Bernard of Clairvaux's immediate family are
either Blesseds or Saints, including his father and mother. Here they
are listed, plus a cousin and in-law.
07 May 2012
St. Bernard of Clairvaux created a movement of love outside himself,
because he was in love with Christ. So too were St. John of the Cross,
St. Teresa of Avila. St. Maximilian Kolbe and many, many other witnesses
to the Faith.
21 Nov 2012
Bernard of Clairvaux's famous sermon on the meeting of Christ and Mary
Magdalen in the Garden highlights the theme I have here and in the
previous post on the Presence of Christ within us. Bernard states that
Mary was ...
07 Apr 2013
Some commentators, like my friend CK, wanted a simple version of the
perfection series and I have finally found a good description from St.
Bernard of Clairvaux, my favourite saint. He describes in his sermon "On
the Different ...
29 Jan 2012
I do not have my works of St. Bernard of Clairvaux with me, but I can
paraphrase one of his sayings: There is rejoicing in heaven when a bad
man becomes good, but how much more rejoicing is there when a good man ...
27 Aug 2012
I have been reading the Sermons of St. Bernard of Clairvaux,
specifically on the Feeding of the Five Thousand. Without going into
great detail, one of the points St. Bernard makes, which has been made
by many saints, is that ...
19 Aug 2012
St. Bernard of Clairvaux is my favourite saint and Dante puts him high
in heaven, Beatrice leaving Dante in the hands of the mystic saint. St.
Bernard is, in my mind, the Saint of Love. He asks Mary, Queen and
Mother, to allow ...
12 Dec 2012
St. Bernard of Clairvaux in his great sermons on the Bride in the Song
of Songs, notes that the Church is Christ's Bride. Many of the so-called
womynpriests are also liberals in other ways. The Anglican Church,
which has ...
18 Feb 2013
Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury, Bede the Venerable, Peter Damian,
Gregory the Great, and the reformer of the Benedictine Order, Bernard of
Clairvaux. So, although the Franciscans claim they have the most, I
count more ...
27 Aug 2012
Like the works of St. Thomas Aquinas, or Augustine, the writings of
Bernard of Clairvaux give us endless spiritual milk to drink on these
points. In his sermon, On Humility and Patience, Bernard writes this,
“Some endure ...
15 Feb 2013
St. Bernard of Clairvaux and his family were in the highest echelons of
their society. They owned great tracts of land, at least on castle, and
had labourers, as well as house staff and so on. St. Bernard gave up his
inheritance, ...
28 Dec 2012
Bernard of Clairvaux had seven-hundred monks and lay brothers at the
peak of the monastery's history, which allows for a steady stream of
visitors. We need more vocations to the religious life. There are two
young ones in the ...
04 Dec 2012
St. Bernard of Clairvaux cooperated with grace. So did St. Paul and St.
Peter. Yesterday was the feast day of St. Francis Xavier, a saint who
learned the Ignatian method of prayer. Pray that God's Perfect Will be
done in your life ...
09 Dec 2012
St. Bernard of Clairvaux writes that great men ask God for great things.
Moses, Joshua, David, Daniel, and many others asked God for great
things, including the revelation of the Glory of God. We do not ask
because we are ...
20 Jul 2013
2 comments: Corax said... Dear Supertradmom How do guys like myself
relate to this whilst still being masculine? 20 July 2013 00:12 ·
Supertradmum said... Read SS. Bernard of Clairvaux and John of the
Cross. Good night.
07 Jun 2013
9) Christ the Bridegroom calls us to the stages of understanding that
each one of us must experience, as explained, for example, by Bernard of
Clairvaux; these stages are knowing one is a child of a loving Father;
that one is ...
