If you are looking for a reason to spend the time and effort to read St. Bernard's Sermones, a very eloquently put reason is provided by the author of the introduction of Volume 3.
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| Feed the Hungry |
"The Christian cannot demand that the world see divine love
in equitable economics, but he cannot risk losing this vision himself. Anyone
who acknowledges that even real progress is not of itself identical with the
kingdom of God, and who wishes his struggle for progress to channel God’s love to
the oppressed and hungry world can turn to the contemplative
Sermones super
Cantica Canticorum to be put in touch with a spring of living water. As he
returns to the hungry, he too will know the difference between the leaven and
the dough, and between bread and a stone."
EMERO STIEGMAN, Saint Mary University Halifax, Nova
Scotia
CISTERCIAN FATHERS SERIES: NUMBER THIRTY-ONE - BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX – ON THE SONG OF SONGS III, p. xix
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