{"id":2270,"date":"2020-01-10T16:33:44","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T22:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/?p=2270"},"modified":"2020-01-12T19:33:22","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T01:33:22","slug":"an-ardent-lover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/2020\/01\/10\/an-ardent-lover\/","title":{"rendered":"An Ardent Lover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c<strong>When that which is loved is at hand, love thrives; when absent it languishes<\/strong>.\u00a0 This is simply that weariness of impatient desire by which the mind of the ardent lover is necessarily afflicted when the loved one is absent; wholly absorbed in expectation, she reckons even any haste to be slow.\u00a0 And therefore she asks for an assortment of the fruits of good works made fragrant by faith in which she may rest while the bridegroom tarries.\u201d Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermon 51.II.3, <em>On the Song of Songs III<\/em>, trans. Kilian Walsh (Kalamazoo: Cistercian, 1979), p. 42. [Emphasis added]<\/p>\n<p>Here Bernard commented on Songs of Songs 2:5, &#8220;Prop me up with flowers, encompass me with apples, because I languish with love.&#8221;\u00a0 Here we see again how medieval preachers and theologians used romantic rhetoric to explain the soul&#8217;s relationship to the divine.\u00a0 Absence may make the heart grow fonder, but it also may cause great emotional suffering.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhen that which is loved is at hand, love thrives; when absent it languishes.\u00a0 This is simply that weariness of impatient desire by which the mind of the ardent lover is necessarily afflicted when the loved one is absent; wholly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/2020\/01\/10\/an-ardent-lover\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-bernard-of-clairvaux","category-love","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2270"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2277,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270\/revisions\/2277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}