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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...

good of their salvation, so they do not cease fearing before they are found suited for loving worthily. Holy affection makes a saint, and this affection is twofold: holy fear of the LORD and holy love. The soul affected perfectly by these comprehends as with two arms, and embraces, binds and holds, and says, “I held him and I will not let him go.”10 Indeed, fear corresponds to height and depth; love to width and length.11 What is so to be feared as power which you cannot resist, as wisdom from which
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