Sermons on the Song of Songs, Volume 2

Gilbert of Hoyland, Lawrence C. Braceland, SJ, Lawrence C Braceland

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English

Liturgical Press
10 September 2022

Spirituality & religious experience; Religious communities & monasticism

Series: Cistercian Fathers Series

Taking up Saint Bernard's unfinished sermon-commentary, Gilbert ruminates on verse 3:1-5:10 in forty-eight sermons, leaving the task to be finished by John of Ford.

This volume contains sermons 16 through 32.

To encounter a person who makes holiness attractive is an enviable experience. Such a person was Gilbert of Hoyland, abbot of the Cistercian monastery of Swineshead in Lincolnshire, a friend of Aelred of Rievaulx, and the continuator of the sermons on the Song of Songs begun by Bernard of Clairvaux.

When the great saint of Clairvaux died in 1153, his sermon commentary had reached only the first four verses of chapter three of the Canticle. Gilbert took up the task, but left the commentary unfinished at his death. It was brought to completion by another English abbot, John of Ford.

Those who know and admire Bernard's eloquence and contemplative insight will enjoy making the acquaintance of his successors. While conscious of continuing Bernard's work and remaining true to his spirit, they infused their sermons with their own personalities and shared their own rich experiences of God. As Lawrence C. Braceland says in his introduction to this first English translation of Gilbert's work, 'Gilbert is an experience. He has found the Beloved.'

By: Gilbert of Hoyland
Translated by: Lawrence C Braceland
Edited and translated by: Lawrence C. Braceland SJ
Imprint: Liturgical Press
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: 20
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 255g
ISBN: 9780879076320
ISBN 10: 0879076321
Series: Cistercian Fathers Series
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 10 September 2022
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Lawrence C. Braceland, (1912-1987) was professor of classics and dean at Ignatius College, Guelph (Canada), until in 1963 becoming professor of classics and dean of arts and sciences at St. Paul's College, the University of Manitoba. After his retirement in 1978, he devoted himself to Cistercian scholarship, publishing numerous articles and translating in four volumes all the works of the English Cistercian abbot Gilbert of Hoyland.

Reviews for Sermons on the Song of Songs, Volume 2

. . . readers will be grateful to Braceland for having rendered Gilbert's moving Latin into equally moving English.Speculum Gilbert's images are living and vibrant. . . It is not a book to be read hurriedly, but rather one to be savored and experienced.Contemplative Review