e entrance to perfect safety. Let us rejoice therefore ...
with our father"; Sec. 8, "Threefold is the rejoicing of the man, since
he is delivered from all sin and from labour and from danger"; and
words ascribed to St. Bernard in _V.P._ vii. 49, "Believe, my son, for
now thou art about to pass from death to life, from temporal labour to
eternal rest."

[985] Communio for All Saints' Day (from Wisd. iii. 2, 3).--For the
last four sentences of the section cp. Serm. i. Sec. 5, where an
identical passage immediately follows the first parallel quoted in n.
3.

[986] Serm. i. Sec. 1 (end) is somewhat similar in expression, and Sec.
8 (end) in thought. There is a closer, but not very striking, parallel
in Serm. ii. Sec. 5 (end).

[987] Luke ii. 52.

[988] John xiii. 1 (inexact quotation).

[989] Heb. i. 3.

[990] 2 Cor. v. 7 (inexact quotation).

[991] Cant. viii. 6.

[992] Cp. Eph. iv. 2.

[993] Ps. lxxiv, 19.

[994] Cp. Serm. i. Sec. 3 (beginning).

[995] Ps. cxxvi. 3.

[996] Cp. Serm. i. Sec. 2, "Therefore we render thanks," etc.

[997] Ps. cvi. 45.

[998] Heb. ix. 17 (vg., inexact quotation).

[999] Rom. iv. 12.

[1000] 2 Pet. iii. 11.

[1001] 1 Thess. iv. 1 (vg.).

[1002] Cp. Prov. x. 1.

[1003] Cant. i. 3, 4.--Cp. Serm. i. Sec. 8 (end).

[1004] Col. iv. 3.

SERMONS OF ST. BERNARD ON THE PASSING OF MALACHY

Sermon I

(November 2, 1148.)[1005]

1. A certain abundant blessing, dearly beloved, has been sent by the
counsel of heaven to you this day; and if it were not faithfully
divided, you would suffer loss, and I, to whom of a surety this office
seems to have been committed, would incur danger. I fear therefore your
loss, I fear my own damnation,[1006] if perchance it be said, _The young
children ask bread, and no man offereth it unto them_.[1007] For I know
how necessary for you is the consolation which comes from heaven, since
it is certain that you have manfully renounced carnal delights and
worldly pleasures. None can reasonably doubt that it was by the good
gift of heaven, and _determined by_ divine _purpose_,[1008] that Bishop
Malachy should fall asleep among you to-day, and among you have his
place of burial, as he desired. For if not even a leaf of a tree _falls_
to _the ground without_ the will of God,[1009] who is so dull as not to
see plainly in the coming of this blessed man, and his passing, a truly
great purpose of the divine compassion?[1010] _From the uttermost pa