Today we turn our prayerful attention to Saint Bernard of Clairvaux for our 'Schools of Prayer' podcast series.
Sr Mary Apolline from the Berdardine Cistercian community at Brownshill, Stroud gives us her reflection on the remarkable twelfth century saint and reformer and also her life as a Bernardine sister.
We start with St Bernard's Prayer to the Most Holy Name of Jesus before Sr Mary Apolline tells us about the saint's reverence for the name of Christ:
"Saint Bernard encourages the devotion to the Holy Name of Jesus. He says: 'It is light, food and medicine... When preached to us, it is food... When we meditate upon it, it is light... When we invoke it, it is medicine that soothes our pains...'
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