#hildegard of bingen

[cuties-in-codices]

hildegard's vision of the universal man and the cosmic spheres

from an illuminated manuscript of hildegard of bingen's "book of divine works" ("liber divinorum operum"), italy, mid-13th century

source: Lucca, Biblioteca Statale di Lucca, MS 1942, fol. 9r

[ohholydyke]

When Saint Augustine said “evil and sin doesn’t exist, it’s just an absence of good” and when Saint Julian of Norwich said “sin doesn’t exist, everything is love and charity, we just struggle to perceive and embody that love and thus suffer pain and despair” and when Jesus Christ said to be perfect as god is perfect means to love everyone and when Saint Hildegard said all are sick and feeble and rotting and inherently worthy of love and care and do you see the connections love is everything love is all there is, sin is what happens when we suffer because we do not love and do not allow ourselves to be loved and it’s fixed by restoration of the sinner to the love which never leaves them it just lingers there until they are ready to accept it. The great commandment is love. We are loved and we ought to love. Care community charity affection support interdependence THESE are holy and these are what constitute everything and our oneness in god who is love. The attributes of God aren’t separate. God’s justice is love, his holiness is love, his righteousness is love, his power is love, his knowledge is love. He loved us so much he became us so that we could become one with him in a way creation never could otherwise. That’s why sin entered the world. That’s why the cross happened. So that creator and creation could become one in love through the remedying unification of the passion, like when you have to cut a section out of a tree and cut a branch in order to graft it on so that they become one and begin producing fruit.

The body of Christ is like Van Aken’s tree, which grows forty different types of fruit after a process of careful grafting, tending and growth. Look at it—it’s beautiful. That is our relationship to God through Christ.

[givemearmstopraywith]

I am a person who has neither the strength nor the pride of a lion. I am soft like a fragile rib, but I have been filled with a secret inspiration.

Hildegard von Bingen, Hildegard Von Bingen’s Mystical Visions : Translated from Scivias, translated by Bruce Hozeski.

[discworldwitches]

from hildegard of bingen - the woman of her age by fiona maddocks

[apilgrimsprogress]

The soul is kissed by God in its innermost regions. With interior yearning, grace and blessing are bestowed. It is a yearning to take on God’s gentle yoke, It is a yearning to give one’s self to God’s Way.

Hildegard of Bingen

[alexnaszados]

St Hildegard von Bingen

oil on carved wood, 2019

9″ x 27″ x .75″ Alex Naszados

[fezzian]

[iscariotapologist]

Hildegard of Bingen

[moehistory]

Hildegard is in charge of handing Easter eggs for this Easter parade. She feels uncomfortable not wearing her nun garment, but she can't help but notice how cute she looks in this Easter dress.

Hildegard of Bingen

[showingsoflove]

— “You may call God love; you may call God goodness; but the best name for God is Compassion.” 🩵

[quotelr]

We cannot live in a world that is interpreted for us by others. An interpreted world is not a hope. Part of the terror is to take back our own listening. To use our own voice. To see our own light.

Hildegard of Bingen

[justana0kguy]

2023 OCTOBER 04 Wednesday

"[We] should go forward resolutely, without carrying the guilt of [the] past, so as not to defy God but rather to be secure without self-pity or blaming [our] past sins."

~ St Hildegard of Bingen, Le Scivias

[ohholydyke]

All girls these days know how to do is be lesbian, obsess over niche medieval theology, hyperfixate on Mary Mother of God and yearn.

[givemearmstopraywith]

They do not consider whether I am salty or not salty, sweet or bitter, a dweller of heaven or of earth. What does this mean? They do not pay attention to either the spice or the sweetness of the Scriptures.

Hildegard von Bingen, Hildegard Von Bingen's Mystical Visions : Translated from Scivias, translated by Bruce Hozeski.

[aeshnalacrymosa]

Welcoming Hildegard in Heaven

Some of my favorite stories about St. Hildegard von Bingen are about the friendships she had. First was Jutta von Sponheim (left), who taught Hildegard to read and write and probably to sing and play music too. When she passed away, Hildegard succeeded her as abbess of Disibodenberg. Second was monk Volmar (second from left), who encouraged Hildegard in her moments of doubt; his death was especially heartbreaking for Hildegard. Like Jutta and Hildegard, Richardis von Stade (right) was from a noble family and stayed in Disibodenberg and later Rupertsberg under Hildegard. Against Hildegard's wishes, Richardis became an abbess in a separate abbey. Her unexpected death shortly after leaving Rupertsberg broke Hildegard's heart. I could just imagine how happy their reunion in Heaven must have been in September 17, 1179.

[dzgrizzle]

Mystics in the Window

At the Cathedral Bookstore, the Episcopal Cathedral of St. Philip, Atlanta: the beautiful and insightful translation of “Practice of the Presence” by Carmen Acevedo Butcher, alongside the medieval mystic Hildegard of Bingen