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The twelfth-century abbot and contemplative known to history as
"The Mellifluous Teacher' wrote sermons for the entire Christmas
liturgical cycle-from the first Sunday of Advent (four weeks before
Christmas) to the Feast of the Purification of the Virgin
Mary/Presentation of Christ in the Temple (2 February). As he
reflects on the wonder of the Incarnation, he reminds Christians
still today that Christmas celebrates the awesome condescension of
God-with-us, not a commercial carnival.
The monk and the knight -- the two quintessentially medieval
European heroes -- were combined in the Knights Templar and in the
other military orders founded in the era of the Crusades. With
characteristic eloquence, Bernard of Clairvaux voices the cleric's
view of knights, warfare, and the conquest of the Holy Land in five
chapters on the knights' vocation. Then the cistercian abbot who
never visited Palestine and discouraged monks who proposed doing
so, in another eight chapters, provides a spiritual tour of the
pilgrimage sites guarded by this 'new kind of knighthood and one
unknown to ages gone by.'
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