The Holy Name

Jesus, the Very Thought of Thee

Bernard of Clairvaux · 1090–1153

Bernard, the 'honey-sweet doctor', loved the Name of Jesus as honey to taste, medicine to heal, music to hear. Let the hymn warm your heart, then rest the Name on your breath until words fall away.

How long?

Sound

Screen-off mode — let the screen rest. The sound keeps playing and a soft tone calls you back at the end.

The hymn is traditionally attributed to St Bernard; its authorship is uncertain (12th-century Cistercian).

Hymn “Jesu dulcis memoria” (attributed to St Bernard of Clairvaux; trans. E. Caswall); On Loving God.