Sermons on the Song of Songs, Volume 2

Lawrence C. Braceland, (1912-1987) was professor of classics and dean at Ignatius College, Guelph (Canada), until in 1963 becoming professor of classics and dean of arts and sciences at St. Paul's College, the University of Manitoba. After his retirement in 1978, he devoted himself to Cistercian scholarship, publishing numerous articles and translating in four volumes all the works of the English Cistercian abbot Gilbert of Hoyland.

• CONTENTSSermon 16  Swordsmen on the border   203Sermon 17  The rich carriage  217Sermon 18  Purification, belief, vision, imitation   227Sermon 19  Foundation and crown   237Sermon 20  Affective contemplation   249Sermon 21  Wonder over his two natures   263Sermon 22  The eyes of a dove   273Sermon 23  Discernment of spirits   283Sermon 24  Understanding and affection   297Sermon 25  Personal progress   305Sermon 26  Battlements of the word and of charity   315Sermon 27  Rapturous feast and the milk of babes   329Sermon 28  The incense of prayer   341Sermon 29  Invited to a crown   349Sermon 30  Union of minds and hearts   361Sermon 31  Milk of babes   373Sermon 32  The Fragrance of the Anointed   385Abbreviations   397

. . . readers will be grateful to Braceland for having rendered Gilbert's moving Latin into equally moving English.Speculum