Read the rest of the series Note: New Jerusalem Bible translation used throughout. 5:10-16 My love is fresh and ruddy… His head is golden… his locks are palm fronds and black as the raven. His eyes are like doves… His cheeks are beds of spices…
Read the rest of the series Note: New Jerusalem Bible translation used throughout. 4:15 How beautiful you are, my beloved, how beautiful you are! There is perhaps no more thrilling a sound that the voice of a loved one telling us how much we are
Read the rest of the series Note: New Jerusalem Bible translation used throughout. 2:3 In his delightful shade I sit, and his fruit is sweet to my taste. It may appear to be a strange question, but why do we sit in the shade? Because
Read the rest of the series Note: New Jerusalem Bible translation used throughout. My love affair, so to speak, with the Song of Songs began in the seminary during a retreat held about one month into my first theology year. Prior to seminary, I was