{"id":31391,"date":"2014-08-20T17:13:11","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T21:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=31391"},"modified":"2014-08-20T17:13:11","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T21:13:11","slug":"saint-bernard-of-clairvaux-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2014\/08\/saint-bernard-of-clairvaux-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Bernard of Clairvaux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #141823;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Saint-Bernard.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-31392 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Saint-Bernard-216x300.jpg\" alt=\"Saint Bernard\" width=\"216\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Saint-Bernard-216x300.jpg 216w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Saint-Bernard-740x1024.jpg 740w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Saint-Bernard.jpg 826w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><\/a>The great\u00a0Saint Bernard of Clairvaux has his feast day today. The Cistercian abbot and priest, preacher and counselor has left a permanent mark on the Church. His teachings reveal the depth of his love for God, particularly the second person of the Trinity. Moreover, he spoke often of God&#8217;s gaze upon us, His mercy for creation. We know from experience that\u00a0God alone can satisfy our human desire; nothing can replace\u00a0our desire for God and if we try to replace God with something, it will\u00a0always eave us frustrated and empty.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #141823;\">From the writings of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux we read: &#8220;I am myself a Cistercian; do I therefore condemn the Cluniacs? God forbid! On the contrary, I love them, praise them, extol them. . . .If you ask why . . . I did not choose Cluny from the first, I reply that, as the apostle says&#8230;: &#8216;All things are lawful for me, but all things are not profitable for me.&#8217; It is not that Cluny is not holy and just. It is rather that I am an unspiritual man, sold as a slave to sin. I knew that my soul was so weak that a stronger remedy was necessary. Different diseases call for different remedies; the more serious the illness, the more drastic the remedy.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The great\u00a0Saint Bernard of Clairvaux has his feast day today. The Cistercian abbot and priest, preacher and counselor has left a permanent mark on the Church. His teachings reveal the depth of his love for God, particularly the second person of the Trinity. Moreover, he spoke often of God&#8217;s gaze upon us, His mercy for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2014\/08\/saint-bernard-of-clairvaux-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saint Bernard of Clairvaux<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1727,1756,2270],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31391"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31393,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31391\/revisions\/31393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}