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The Celtic Monk

The Irish temperament--individualistic, poetic, and deeply loyal to family--produced great and le...

The Luminous Eye

Sebastian Brock is Reader in Syriac Studies in the University of Oxford, where he is also a Fello...

The Name of Jesus

'Pray continually,' Scripture exhorts. 'Do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus.' Striving to...

Interior Prayer

'Prayer is a journey, sometimes a combat.There are trials, purifications, passages.It is at o...

Eros and Allegory

Monks and priests - male celibates - have for centuries described, expressed, and celebrated thei...

Three Treatises on Man

Three treatises by twelfth-century Cistercians, who reflect on the human person as the image of G...

Aelred of Rievaulx

Spiritual Friendship is today the best known and perhaps most influential of the thirteen survivi...

Homilies in Praise of the Blessed Virgin Mary

To sing the praises of Mary, Bernard studies and contemplates her there where God has so perfectl...

In Praise of the Knighthood

The monk and the knight-the two quintessentially medieval European heroes-were combined in the Kn...

Gertrud the Great of Helfta

The Rule of the Master

Three times longer than the Rule of Saint Benedict and in parts identical to it, the Regula Magis...

Love Without Measure

In 1090 St. Bernard of Clairvaux, a monk of the Cistercian order, was born.One of the great fig...