Download or read book The Liturgical Sermons written by Aelred of Rievaulx and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2016-05-09 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aelred, abbot of the Yorkshire Cistercian abbey of Rievaulx from 1147 to 1167, wrote six spiritual treatises, seven historical treatises, and 182 liturgical sermons, most of which he delivered as chapter talks to his monks. Translations of the first twenty-eight of these sermons appeared in The First Clairvaux Collection, Advent-All Saints, published in 2001. The current volume contains eighteen sermons given on feasts beginning with the Nativity and concluding with a sermon for All Saints.