Did you know that Song of Songs is the most commented-on Book of the Bible? Almost every Church Father and every saint had something to say about at least some part of that Scripture. Why? Because it is every person’s journey, as John Paul II mentioned in 1980:

“Your personal journey must be like an original new edition of the famous poem in the Song of Songs.”

In this beautiful drama of God’s love reaching to human heart, you will be able to see yourself as the Beloved who needs to find the pearl that will satisfy his or her heart. In each of our weekly sessions, we discover a spiritual sense of each rich verse, finding ourselves in the midst of an ongoing journey, opening the eyes of our hearts to a deeper connection with Jesus and His way of loving us. As Bernard of Clairvaux describes:

“Only the touch of the Spirit can inspire a song like this, and only personal experience can unfold its meaning. Let those who are versed in the mystery revel in it; let all others burn with desire rather to attain to this experience than merely to learn about it.

For it is a melody that resound abroad by the very music of the heart, not a trilling on the lips but an inward pulsing of delight, a harmony not of voices but of wills, it is a tune you will not hear in the streets, these notes do not sound where crowds assemble; only the singer hears it and the one to whom he sings - the lover and the beloved. It is preeminently a marriage song telling of chaste souls in loving embrace, of their wills in sweet accord, of the mutual exchange of the heart's affection”.

Song of Songs courses online are part of our School of Prayer. We expect to have four parts in this series, called Begin, Become, Belong, Believe.