{"id":142532,"date":"2026-01-12T07:27:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T12:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=142532"},"modified":"2026-01-12T06:19:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T11:19:23","slug":"aelred-of-rievaulx-for-his-feast-day-what-friendship-is-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=142532","title":{"rendered":"Aelred of Rievaulx for his Feast Day\u2013What Friendship is"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>10. What statement about friendship can be more sublime, more true, more valuable than this: it has been proved that friendship must begin in Christ, continue with Christ, and be perfected by Christ. Come, now: propose what in your opinion should be the first question about friendship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>IVO. I think we should first discuss what friendship is, lest we appear to be painting on a void, not knowing what should guide and organize our talk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>11. AELRED. Is Cicero\u2019s definition not an adequate beginning for you? \u201cFriendship is agreement in things human and divine, with good will and charity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>12. IVO. If his definition suffices for you, it\u2019s good enough for me.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2013Aelred of Rievaulx&nbsp;<strong>Spiritual Friendship<\/strong>&nbsp;I.10-12 (Lawrence C. Braceland, tr., Marsha L. Dutton ed., Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press, 2010), p.57<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">12th January &#8211; St. Aelred of Rievaulx.<br><br>A talented author, theologian, preacher and diplomat, Aelred rose to become abbot of Rievaulx between 1147 and his death in 1167. He wrote a book on Spiritual Friendship in which he shared that God was pure reciprocity. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0bPfn8hLtK\">pic.twitter.com\/0bPfn8hLtK<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Ninefold Kyrie (@Gda1238) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Gda1238\/status\/2010640090134102247?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 12, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10. What statement about friendship can be more sublime, more true, more valuable than this: it has been proved that friendship must begin in Christ, continue with Christ, and be perfected by Christ. Come, now: propose what in your opinion<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=142532\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-church-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142532"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142534,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142532\/revisions\/142534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}