LENTEN JOURNEY 2026

READING St Bernard of Clairvaux

“On Loving God”

Join us on our Lenten journey through St Bernard’s “On Loving God” while enjoying fellowship and a soup supper together. Soup begins at 6PM. Discussion lasts from 6:45 till 7:30PM. We complete the night with Compline.

Bernard of Clairvaux (1090AD - 1153) was an abbot and mystic who greatly promoted reforms with the Benedictine communities. In “On Loving God” St Bernard shares his insights into the nature of God’s love and its centrality to the Christian experience.

The book will be available in through the bookstore ministry and you can also download the PDF for free here.

If you would like to sign up for bringing a soup or side, please email office@lightofchristgeorgetown.org.

DISCUSSION SCHEDULE

FEBRUARY 25

Dedication
Why We Should Love God and the Measure of That Love
How Much God Deserves Love from Man in Recognition of His Gifts, Both Material and Spiritual, and How These Gifts Should Be Cherished Without Neglect of the Giver

MARCH 4

What Greater Incentives Christians Have, More Than the Heathen, to Love God
Of Those Who Find Comfort in The Recollection of God, or Are Fittest for His Love
Of the Christian's Debt of Love, How Great It Is
A Brief Summary

MARCH 11

Of Love Toward God Not Without Reward: And How the Hunger of Man's Heart Cannot Be Satisfied with Earthly Things
Of the First Degree of Love: Wherein Man Loves God For Self's Sake
Of the Second and Third Degrees of Love

MARCH 18

Of the Fourth Degree of Love: Wherein Man Does Not Even Love Self Save for God's Sake
Of the Attainment of This Perfection of Love Only at the Resurrection
Of Love: Out of A Letter to the Carthusians

MARCH 25

Of the Law of Self-Will and Desire, of Slaves And Hirelings
Of the Law of the Love of Sons
Of the Four Degrees of Love, and of the Blessed State of the Heavenly Fatherland