Aelreds writings were highly regarded by contemporaries and are still greatly valued. Spiritual friendship cistercian fathers book 5 kindle. Saint aelred of rievaulx is currently considered a single author. Traditions of spiritual guidance aelred of rievaulx brendan callaghan 375 c istercian spirituality and christian friendship have each fea tured in traditions of spiritual guidance, 1 so for aelred to be treated in his own right might seem unnecessary. May 17, 2019 aelred of rievaulx spiritual friendship pdf may 17, 2019 by admin to send this article to your kindle, first ensure email protected is added to your approved personal document email list under your personal document settings on the manage your content and. Aelred of rievaulxs spiritual friendship is one of the most important treatises on friendship to emerge from the middle ages. Aelred of rievalux work on spiritual friendship presents the most noble presentation of friendship i have ever read. This short book was written in the form of a dialog between the author.
Aelred died in the winter of 11667, probably on 12 january 1167 at rievaulx. As a cistercian monk in the middle ages, aelred of rievaulxs 11101167 life was likely filled with physical work and contemplative prayer. We embrace very many with every affection, but yet in such a way that we do not admit them to. In the course of his life as a monk aelred wrote two treatises on that subject. Here we are, you and i, and i hope that christ makes a third with us. Aelred of rievaulxs doctrine on the mirror of charity. True friendship, however, is grounded in christ and, like chastity, is a gift of gods grace. Saint aelred of rievaulx primary author only author division. Aelred names four qualities in a spiritual friend, namely his capacity for fidelity a quality of stability through good times and bad, her intention what she expects from the friendship, discretion when and under what circumstances is it right to do and say certain things, and patience not only with the friend herself but also with.
Recovering male samesex friendships in the modern era introduction human beings are fundamentally social creatures, with complex rules and guidelines for social behavior and interactions. Spiritual friendship by aelred of rievaulx 9780879079703. Spiritual friendship in 300 words spiritual friendship. Preoccupied with temporal advantages, it follows the purse. Aelred of rievaulx spiritual friendship pdf may 17, 2019 by admin to send this article to your kindle, first ensure email protected is added to your approved personal document email list under your personal document settings on the manage your content and. Aelred of rievaulx download ebook pdf, epub, tuebl, mobi. Download pdf spiritualfriends free online new books. Ivo asks aelred if we could say of friendship what john, the intimate friend of jesus, says of charity, that god is friendship. Feb 14, 2019 aelred of rievaulx spiritual friendship pdf by admin in education patricia carroll ocso draws our attention to aelred of rievaulx, a cistercian saint and spiritual writer who specialised in writing about friendship as an image of. Spiritual friendship, cistercian pubns 27 copy quote. What spiritual classic books should every catholic read.
Pdf aelred of rievaulx spiritual friendship cistercian. Friendship is that virtue by which spirits are bound by ties of love and sweetness and out of many are made one. During his abbacy he built rievaulx into a place of spiritual welcome and physical prosperity, desiring to make it a mother of mercy to those. The treatise is a series of dialogues in which three monks join aelred to examine their ideas about. We can see the importance of those two works when we consider the contrast between the strict demeanor found in most monastic orders of that day, and that of st. Download aelred of rievaulx spiritual friendship cistercian fathers ebook free in pdf and epub format. Working within a tradition that dates back to cicero and other classical authors, aelred ca.
Patricia carroll ocso draws our attention to aelred of rievaulx, a cistercian saint and spiritual writer who specialised in writing about friendship as an image of the relationship between god and each person. Aelred, a 12thcentury cistercian abbot, insists that we need to test our beliefs about friendship with scripture. Thierry, what distinguishes aelred from them is he never attended the schools. The mirror of charity, written at the beginning of his monastic life, and spiritual friendship, written near its end, form a set. Those familiar with aelred may be surprised that i intend to use his works to reflect on a spirituality of mercy, rather than on spiritual friendship.
Aelred of rievaulx spiritual friendship pdf what is the. On july 26, 2018 from 15pm, spiritual friendship will host a preconference, immediately preceding the revoice conference in st. Read aelred of rievaulx spiritual friendship cistercian fathers online, read in mobile or kindle. Apr 01, 2010 spiritual friendship is today the best known and perhaps most influential of the thirteen surviving works of aelred, abbot of the great english cistercian abbey of rievaulx from 1147 1167. Aelred, who permitted holding hands and showing other. Lets listen in on the soul talk and spiritual friendship that goes on between aelred and ivo an excerpt from spiritual friendship by aelred of rievaulx. In short, monastic theology, like monastic friendship according to the exemplary account of aelred of rievaulx, is ideally a balanced activity of reason and will, profoundly christcentered, existentially grounded in both sensible and spiritual experience, and quintessentially expressed in. Spiritual friendship is today the best known and perhaps most influential of the thirteen surviving works of aelred, abbot of the great english cistercian abbey of rievaulx from 1147 1167. Patricia carroll ocso draws our attention to aelred of rievaulx, a cistercian saint and spiritual writer who specialised in writing about friendship as an image of. On spiritual friendship aelred of rievaulx download bok. Aelred of rievaulx of spiritual friendship love religious. The classic text with a spiritual commentary by dennis billy, c.
If one or more works are by a distinct, homonymous authors, go ahead and split the author. The governing principle of worldly friendship is utility. Utility exploits the human impulse to love and be loved. No medicine is more valuable, none more efficacious, none better suited to the cure of all our temporal ills than a friend to whom we may turn for consolation in time of trouble, and with whom we may share our happiness in time of joy. Please read our short guide how to send a book to kindle. Among spiritual writers, i think that aelred of rievaulx has been largely overlooked. Joe trout, op, the preconference will provide a theological foundation for thinking about desire, the fall, and the sanctification of human love. In fact it is so noble, incredible and rare that one could say that he refers to intimacies between persons so great that contemporary culture would be inclined to describe such relations as being soul mates or kindred spirits. The visit turned out to be the life, for aelred never returned to scotland. Download pdf spiritualfriends free online new books in. Mar 26, 2020 aelred died in the winter of 7, probably on 12 january 17 at rievaulx.
I handed out this highlight from aelred of rivaulx so people could see a the great flowering of medieval monastism on friendship. In friendship are joined honor and charm, truth and joy, sweetness and goodwill, affection and action. Jan 11, 2017 spiritual friendship practice inspired by st. Pdf download spiritual friendship free unquote books. Certain readings of the symposium would also assert that to ascend the sublimation ladder from physical to spiritual mean you have to physically love before you can ascend. Aelred is an inspiration for spiritual directors, counselors, friends, and parents. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while. What therefore is more pleasant than to unite oneself to the spirit of another and the two to form one the conversation at first seems to be slow. Aelred of rievaulx of spiritual friendship free download as word doc. I cannot help but conclude that the writer of this text is a person who knows the significance and power ridvaulx chronicling to both evoke and generate history. Shortly after aelreds death in 1167 an account of his life was written by his pupil, walter daniel. Aelred of rievaulx quotes author of spiritual friendship. Aelred based his conception of spiritual friendship on a metaphysics of the kiss. Here is my reading log from aelred of rievaulxs classic devotional book on spiritual friendship.
On spiritual friendship aelred of rievaulx download. But, perhaps, it is difficult to find this perfection with respect to all in. Reading aelred of rievaulxs little treatise on spiritual friendship as an undergraduate was a lifechanging experience for me. From spiritual friendship by aelred of rievaulx, 3.
Marsha l dutton the abbot of the english cistercian abbey of rievaulx from 11471167 explores the spiritual nature of human friendship, defining it as sacramental and as a vehicle for god to transmit his love to all. Written in dialogue form, spiritual friendship offers wise counsel on many aspects of friendship. One of the most essential aspects of what it means to be fully human is to have friends. These include his treatises on spiritual friendship and the mirror of charity, his rule for the recluse, various sermons and a life of edward the confessor. Aelred was a twelfth century english cistercian monk, who. Spiritual friendship cistercian fathers book 5 kindle edition by aelred of rievaulx, dutton, marsha l. All love, to aelred, is a participation in godlove that leads us to union. During his abbacy he built rievaulx into a place of spiritual welcome and physical prosperity, desiring to make it a mother of mercy to those in need. Together they demonstrate both the consistency of his teaching and his unswerving love of god in christ. Unlike the other medieval spiritual authors such as st. Featuring ron belgau, matthew lee anderson, johanna finegan, and br. Aelred of rievaulx s spiritual friendship download ebook.
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