source: st bernard of clairvaux (+1153) (cistercian monk & doctor of the church). sermons on the song of songs, no. 53. Classics of Western Spirituality. dailygospel.org
A. Stimulus
> "In love alone, of all the movements of the soul and the senses and affections, can the creature respond to its Creator..."
> ... the Bridegroom, who is Love, asks only the commitment of love and faith.
B. Response
> "So, rightly renouncing all other desires, she gives herself up wholly to Love, for it is in responding to Love that she is able to return love...
> "For ever if the creature loves less because it is lesser, yet if she loves with all her heart, nothing is lacking where all is given..."
>"This love is nothing other than
-- holy and chaste love,
-- love sweet and tender,
-- love as tranquil as it is true,
-- mutual, close, deep love,
which is not in the flesh but which joins two in one spirit, making two no longer two but one.
As Paul says, "He who is united to God is one spirit with him" (1 Corinthians 6:17)."
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