Lawrence C. Braceland, (1912-1987) was professor of classics and dean at Ignatius College, Guelph (Canada), until in 1963 becoming professor of classics and dean of arts and sciences at St. Paul's College, the University of Manitoba. After his retirement in 1978, he devoted himself to Cistercian scholarship, publishing numerous articles and translating in four volumes all the works of the English Cistercian abbot Gilbert of Hoyland.

. . . readers will be grateful to Braceland for having rendered Gilbert's moving Latin into equally moving English.Speculum

• CONTENTSIntroduction   3Notes to Introduction   35SERMON 1   Peace and Leisure   43SERMON 2   The restless quest   55SERMON 3   The initiative   65SERMON 4   Roaming the city of God   73SERMON 5   Seek with wisdom and affection   85SERMON 6   The Watchmen's visions   97SERMON 7   Approach the Beloved   107SERMON 8   Charity ascends to understanding   117SERMON 9   Holding fast in love   127SERMON 10  Holding and beholding   133SERMON 11  Keeping sabbath free   141SERMON 12  His shoulders and his breast   149SERMON 13  Steadfastness with Christ in Crises   155SERMON 14  The vigil in sleep   165SERMON 15  Enamored, humbled, and renewed   177Abbreviations   191Selected Bibliography   193

Lawrence C. Braceland, (1912-1987) was professor of classics and dean at Ignatius College, Guelph (Canada), until in 1963 becoming professor of classics and dean of arts and sciences at St. Paul's College, the University of Manitoba. After his retirement in 1978, he devoted himself to Cistercian scholarship, publishing numerous articles and translating in four volumes all the works of the English Cistercian abbot Gilbert of Hoyland.

. . . readers will be grateful to Braceland for having rendered Gilbert's moving Latin into equally moving English.Speculum

• CONTENTSIntroduction   3Notes to Introduction   35SERMON 1   Peace and Leisure   43SERMON 2   The restless quest   55SERMON 3   The initiative   65SERMON 4   Roaming the city of God   73SERMON 5   Seek with wisdom and affection   85SERMON 6   The Watchmen's visions   97SERMON 7   Approach the Beloved   107SERMON 8   Charity ascends to understanding   117SERMON 9   Holding fast in love   127SERMON 10  Holding and beholding   133SERMON 11  Keeping sabbath free   141SERMON 12  His shoulders and his breast   149SERMON 13  Steadfastness with Christ in Crises   155SERMON 14  The vigil in sleep   165SERMON 15  Enamored, humbled, and renewed   177Abbreviations   191Selected Bibliography   193

Lawrence C. Braceland, (1912-1987) was professor of classics and dean at Ignatius College, Guelph (Canada), until in 1963 becoming professor of classics and dean of arts and sciences at St. Paul's College, the University of Manitoba. After his retirement in 1978, he devoted himself to Cistercian scholarship, publishing numerous articles and translating in four volumes all the works of the English Cistercian abbot Gilbert of Hoyland.

. . . readers will be grateful to Braceland for having rendered Gilbert's moving Latin into equally moving English.Speculum

• CONTENTSIntroduction   3Notes to Introduction   35SERMON 1   Peace and Leisure   43SERMON 2   The restless quest   55SERMON 3   The initiative   65SERMON 4   Roaming the city of God   73SERMON 5   Seek with wisdom and affection   85SERMON 6   The Watchmen's visions   97SERMON 7   Approach the Beloved   107SERMON 8   Charity ascends to understanding   117SERMON 9   Holding fast in love   127SERMON 10  Holding and beholding   133SERMON 11  Keeping sabbath free   141SERMON 12  His shoulders and his breast   149SERMON 13  Steadfastness with Christ in Crises   155SERMON 14  The vigil in sleep   165SERMON 15  Enamored, humbled, and renewed   177Abbreviations   191Selected Bibliography   193