Sermons on the Final Verses of the Song of Songs Volume I

• TABLE OF CONTENTSIntroduction by Hilary Costello   3Translator's Preface   61SERMONSPrologue   67Sermon One   77  Sermon Two   89Sermon Three   97Sermon Four   111Sermon Five   125Sermon Six   133Sermon Seven   147Sermon Eight   161Sermon Nine   177Sermon Ten   189Sermon Eleven   201Sermon Twelve   216Sermon Thirteen   231Sermon Fourteen   249Table of Abbreviations   267

[John] emerges as a lively and original commentator, writing sensitively from a deep experience of the spiritual and monastic life. Carrying on where his great predecessors, including Saint Bernard, left off, John knows grace and its counterpart, humility, are central to all christian spirituality; he also has an exceptionally keen awareness of the church as a body whose members share in each other's treasures and rejoice in each other's blessings.Simon Tugwell OP, Cistercian Studies Quarterly