Bernard of Clairvaux, Abbot, Doctor, and Poet
admin | 20 August 2016The collect for today, the Feast of Saint Bernard (1090-1153), Abbot of Clairvaux, Doctor of the Church, Poet (source):
O merciful redeemer,
who, by the life and preaching of thy servant Bernard,
didst rekindle the radiant light of thy Church:
grant that we in our generation
may be inflamed with the same spirit of discipline and love
and ever walk before thee as children of light;
through Jesus Christ thy Son our Lord,
who liveth and reigneth with thee,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.
The Epistle: 2 Timothy 4:1-8
The Gospel: St. John 15:7-11
Artwork: Fra Filippo Lippi, The Virgin Appears to St. Bernard, 1447. Egg tempera on wood, National Gallery, London.
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