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Intimacy in Prayer: Wisdom from Bernard of Clairvaux is unavailable, but you can change that!

We all have a fundamental longing for authentic love and intimacy. But where can we find such an intimacy, and how do we express this need without fear? In these selections from his sermons on the Song of Songs, Saint Bernard of Clairvaux reflects on the biblical allegory of spiritual marriage between God the bridegroom, and our soul, the bride. Through this interpretation, he awakens you to...

contemplative experience of being “rapt in love’s bliss”2 is not the occupation of monks and nuns alone; it is the basic vocation of every human being. Wherever we may find ourselves along life’s journey, God beckons us to himself so he may lavish upon us our hearts’ deepest longing.
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