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  • Embracing God

    Essays on the Spiritual Treatises of Aelred of Rievaulx

    Series Book 302 - Cistercian Studies Series
    These spiritual reflections guide their readers toward God’s embrace.In Embracing God, Marsha L. Dutton surveys the interwoven structures and themes of five treatises, showing how Aelred guides his readers to cling forever to God through memory, which is one of the three faculties of God’s image placed in humankind at creation (alongside reason and will). Individual chapters explore meditations on ... Read more

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  • The Liturgical Sermons

    The Reading-Cluny Collection, 1 of 2; Sermons 85-133

    Translated by Daniel Griggs ...
    Series Book 81 - Cistercian Fathers Series
    Aelred (1110–1167) served Rievaulx Abbey, the second Cistercian monastery in England, for twenty years as abbot. During his abbacy he wrote thirteen treatises, some offering spiritual guidance and others seeking to advise King Henry II. He also wrote thirty-one sermons as a commentary on Isaiah 13–16 and 182 surviving liturgical sermons, mostly addressed to his monks.This volume contains the first ... Read more

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  • Homilies on the Prophetic Burdens of Isaiah

    Translated by Lewis White ...
    Series Book 83 - Cistercian Fathers Series
    During his twenty years as abbot of the Yorkshire monastery of Rievaulx, Aelred preached many sermons: to his own monks, in other monasteries, and at significant gatherings outside the cloister. In these thirty-one homilies on Isaiah chapters 13–16, together with an introductory Advent sermon, Aelred interprets the burdens that Isaiah prophesied against the nations according to their literal, ... Read more

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  • Spiritual Friendship

    Translated by Lawrence C. Braceland SJ ...
    Series Book 5 - Cistercian Fathers Series
    Spiritual Friendship is today the best known and perhaps most influential of the thirteen surviving works of Aelred, abbot of the great English Cistercian abbey of Rievaulx from 1147 '1167. During his abbacy he built Rievaulx into a place of spiritual welcome and physical prosperity, desiring to make it a mother of mercy" to those in need. In a three-book Ciceronian dialogue Aelred defines human ... Read more

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  • Unity of Spirit

    Studies on William Of Saint-Thierry in Honor of E. Rozanne Elder

    Series Book 268 - Cistercian Studies Series
    William of Saint-Thierry (ca. 1080–1148) became abbot of the Benedictine abbey of Saint-Thierry in about 1119, holding that office for about sixteen years and writing a large number of works, some for the guidance of the monks of his abbey and others as theological treatises. But during that same time, after meeting Bernard, abbot of the Cistercian abbey of Clairvaux, he longed to become a ... Read more

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  • Types in Hebrews

    This classic work by Sir Robert Anderson is a great chapter-by-chapter study through the book of Hebrews.This edition includes an Active Table of Contents and fully-linked End Notes.Contents:CHAPTER 1: AUTHORSHIPCHAPTER 2: OTHER TESTIMONYCHAPTER 3: HEBREWS IN THE OLD TESTAMENTCHAPTER 4: PRIESTHOODCHAPTER 5: CHRIST'S DEITY ENFORCEDCHAPTER 6: ASPECTS OF HIS WORKCHAPTER 7: A GREAT PRIESTCHAPTER 8: ... Read more

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  • The Liturgical Year, Vol. 2

    Lent, the Sacred Paschal Triduum, Easter Time

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