#hildegard of bingen

[themeaningthemeaningthe]

my spotify does this every once in a while where it mixes up the picture and the title of a playlist on the home page and i think it’s so funny every time. and i’ve never seen it do this with anything else besides the fake "this is st. hildegard von bingen" that @and-her-saints made that i’ve been listening to to fall asleep every night for the last like 2 years lmao

[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.

[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

[discworldwitches]

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

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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.

[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

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[kuunibal]

"You are the tender flower that will never grow dry."

— Ordo Virtutum by Hildegard of Bingen

[alexnaszados]

St Hildegard von Bingen

oil on carved wood, 2019

9″ x 27″ x .75″ Alex Naszados

[ophelia-freesia]

"My grief rises up. That grief is obliterating the great confidence and consolation which I had from another human being...I loved you for your noble bearing, your wisdom, your purity, your soul and all your life! So much so that many people said, 'What are you doing?'"

Hildegard of Bingen, after her close friend Richardis was assigned to be an abbess in separate monastery.

[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.

[loudlylovingreview]

Video: Hildegard of Bingen | Love Aboundeth In All Things

Hildegard of Bingen (c. 1098 – 1179), also known as Saint Hildegard and the Sibyl of the Rhine, was a German Benedictine abbess and polymath active as a writer, composer, philosopher, mystic, visionary, and as a medical writer and practitioner during the High Middle Ages. She is one of the best-known composers of sacred monophony, as well as the most recorded in modern history. She has been…

[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

[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.

[showingsoflove]

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

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