He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has life everlasting.
John 6:55
That is, he who meditates on my death and following my exampe, mortifies his members which belong to this earth, has eternal life.
Bernard
Bernard was intent on cultivating a readiness for the presence of the Word through meditative and ascetical preparations for the unmerited 'visit' of the Bridegroom in contemplation. (memoia Christi)
Christ is both exemplum and sacramentum: if the faithful separate imitation of Christ from the sacramental mystery, there can be no divine union.
Bernard of Clairvaux, On Loving God, An Analytical Commentary by Emero Stiegman,
pages, 13-14, 78-79
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