Procession and Contemplation in Bernard of Clairvaux’s First Sermon for Palm Sunday

Bruun, Mette Birkedal

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“…41 Bell 2013, 264-265. A third procession, the Ascension, was added around mid-century, after which the number of processions gradually grew, see Bruun 2004, 71 n. 15 with references. 42 Palm 2.5, SBOp, 5, 48 (Edmonds, 106): "Iam vero ad processionem accedens, tamquam quattuor ordines in ea mihi videor intueri; fortassis in hac nostra processione hodie omnes poterunt inveniri".…”

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Imaginative immersion in the Cistercian Cloister

Engh

2019

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This article uses analytical concepts from cognitive science to explore and deepen our understanding of how medieval monastics imagined themselves as characters within biblical narratives. It argues that Cistercian monks - and in particular Bernard of Clairvaux - used techniques of imaginative immersion to enter and blend themselves into biblical viewpoints and events, thereby engaging the monks in epistemically and personally transformative experiences. The article concludes that this served to build community and to enculture monks and converts. Specifically, the article offers a close reading of two of Bernard's liturgical sermons, Sermon Two for Palm Sunday and Sermon Two on the Resurrection, to show how his sermons 1) traverse time and space and 2) blend viewpoints. Examples are also taken from texts by John Cassian, Augustine, Gregory the Great, and William of St. Thierry. Keywords: Bernard of Clairvaux, blended viewpoint, deictic displacement, lectio divina, liturgical time and space. On cover:Monks singing the Office and decorated initial A[sperges me.]. Gradual Olivetan Master (Use of the Olivetan Benedictines), illuminated manuscript on parchment ca. 1430-1439. Italy, Monastero di Santa Maria di Baggio near Milan, Ca 1400-1775.Beinecke Ms1184: The olivetan Gradual. Gradual. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

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