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On the anniversary of the dedication of the monastery church at
Clairvaux, Saint Bernard spoke to the community to explain the
meaning of the feast: "What sanctity can these stones have that we
should celebrate their festival? They do indeed have sanctity, but
it is because of your bodies. . . . Your bodies are holy because of
your souls, and this house is holy because of your bodies."The
thirty-eight sermons in this volume carry forth this theme,
revealing the holiness of the monastic life as monks alternate
through the rhythm of the day and the year between the "opus Dei"
and manual labor, journeying faithfully through life to death and
the "transitus" to glory. The twelfth-century "Ecclesiastica
Officia" of the Cistercian Order required abbots to speak formally
to their communities in chapter on seventeen fixed days, mostly
liturgical feasts. This volume witnesses to Bernard's fulfillment
of this requirement and includes sermons for the Assumption and
Nativity of the Virgin and the Feast of All Saints, sermons devoted
to the feasts of particular saints celebrated during the autumn
months, sermons for the time of harvest, and funeral sermons that
look forward to the eternal joy in the communion of saints.
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