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on the Lord\u2019s Birthday<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Great is this day\u2019s solemn feast of the Lord\u2019s birth dearly beloved. But the short day requires me to shorten my sermon. What wonder if we make our word short, when God the Father has made his Word short. \u2018From everlasting to everlasting\u2019 says the prophet, you are God and see he has become an infant a day old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why was it necessary that the Lord of majesty so empty himself, so humble himself, so abbreviate himself. Was it not that you might do likewise ? Already he is crying out by his example what later he will proclaim by his words: \u2018Learn from me for i am meek and humble of heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Consequently i beg and earnestly entreat you not to allow so precious a model to be shown you in vain but be conformed to it and renewed in the spirit of your minds. Be zealous for humility which is the foundation and guardian of the virtues. Pursue it for it alone can save your souls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Great are the works of the Lord says the prophet. ( Ps 111.110:2 ) Great are all his works. Three of his works proclaim his wonderful dealings with us: our primal creation, our present redemption and our future glorification. How each of this proclaims the greatness of your works o Lord!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recognize your dignity O human being, recognize the glory of human constitution ! Along with the world you have a body. But you have something more sublime as well. Bound together and united within you are flesh and soul, one of them formed and the other \u2018breathed in\u2019. From the soul comes beauty, from the soul comes growth, from the soul clarity of vision and the sound of the voice. Divine love is what this union commends to me. Divine love is what i see written on the very page of my creation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the Sermons of St. Bernard of Clairvaux, Abbot<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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