#saint hildegard of bingen

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Today’s Reflection

Yesterday, we witnessed Jesus perform a cure of great faith with the Centurion and his slave. This type of miracle is something we witness quite often in the ministry of Jesus. Yet, today’s gospel miracle is different and unlike any miracle, he performed. For it occurred without faith or any prompting by anyone. Rather it came through pity and out of compassion. Here we see Jesus in his humanity and in his divinity, for he first exhibited human emotion and then in his divinity he restored to the widow her only Son. Although this true, Luke had another reason for including this event in his gospel. Because this event in the life of Jesus foreshadowed his own death and life, for he was triumphant over the grave, as he promised. Therefore, this ought to bring us hope that we who believe may have eternal life.

Today’s Spiritual Links for September 17, 2024

National Eucharistic Review Today’s Mas Readings Today’s Reflection Rosary Liturgy of the Hours New American Bible Non-Scriptural Reading Prime Matters

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All virtues work together in the incarnate Son of God, who in his person has left us the footprints of salvation, so that all, the faint-hearted as well as the generous among the faithful, may find in him the suitable step on which to place their foot, in order to accomplish the ascent of virtues and thus arrive at the best place where they are to work with virtues.

Saint Hildegard of Bingen

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St Hildegard von Bingen’s Litterae Ignotae, an alphabet of her crafted mystical language Lingua Ignota. She was an 12th century abbess, a mystic who experienced visions from God, a writer, and a composer of hymns.

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About St Hildegard of Bingen (left)

About St Joan of Arc (right)

The winner will go to the final four across all brackets!!

In about 24 hours the next bracket will open for modern saints.

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Remember the first Season 8 prep BTS post?

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I’m not saying definitively that St Hildegard von Bingen was for sure autistic, but the fact that she was unanimously elected by her colleagues to their highest office to manage the highly-ritualized, painfully and thoroughly scripted Catholic show and was also known to pace in circles around the entire convent praying at each corner for hours at a time upon her own volition is… highly spectral behavior to say the least.

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

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Ave sancta Hildegard. Ora pro nobis 🙏🏼

O frodens virga, in tua nobilitate stans

Sicut aurora procedit….

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In a special way Hildegard countered the movement of German cátari (Cathars). They cátari means literally "pure" advocated a radical reform of the Church, especially to combat the abuses of the clergy. She harshly reprimanded them for seeking to subvert the very nature of the Church, reminding them that a true renewal of the ecclesial community is obtained with a sincere spirit of repentance and a demanding process of conversion, rather than with a change of structures.  — Pope Benedict XVI

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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

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Today in Medieval Research:

Modern avant garde musical on Hildegard of Bingen points me towards 900 year old text on the Virgin Mary being the redemption of Eve written by a women (aka my thesis topic)

Anyway.

In the Green by Grace McLean. It’s weird but cool.

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Where are the catherine of sienas and hildegard von bingens of our time. guys. you need to up your game. join a convent go a little crazy hear the voice of god in all your terrible feverish isolation abandon the physical plane in pursuit of the divine

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THE DESCRIPTION OF SAINT HILDEGARD OF BINGEN The Patron of 'Late Bloomers' Feast Day: September 17

Abbess, artist, author, composer, mystic, pharmacist, poet, preacher, theologian—where to begin in describing this remarkable woman?

Born into a noble family, she was instructed for ten years by the holy woman Blessed Jutta. When Hildegard was 18, she became a Benedictine nun at the Monastery of Saint Disibodenberg. Ordered by her confessor to write down the visions that she had received since the age of three, Hildegard took ten years to write her Scivias (Know the Ways). Pope Eugene III read it, and in 1147, encouraged her to continue writing. Her Book of the Merits of Life and Book of Divine Works followed. She wrote over 300 letters to people who sought her advice; she also composed short works on medicine and physiology, and sought advice from contemporaries such as Saint Bernard of Clairvaux.

Hildegard’s visions caused her to see humans as 'living sparks' of God's love, coming from God as daylight comes from the sun. Sin destroyed the original harmony of creation; Christ's redeeming death and resurrection opened up new possibilities. Virtuous living reduces the estrangement from God and others that sin causes.

Like all mystics, Hildegard saw the harmony of God's creation and the place of women and men in that. This unity was not apparent to many of her contemporaries.

Hildegard was no stranger to controversy. The monks near her original foundation protested vigorously when she moved her monastery to Bingen, overlooking the Rhine River. She confronted Emperor Frederick Barbarossa for supporting at least three antipopes. Hildegard challenged the Cathars, who rejected the Catholic Church claiming to follow a more pure Christianity.

Between 1152 and 1162, Hildegard often preached in the Rhineland. Her monastery was placed under interdict because she had permitted the burial of a young man who had been excommunicated. She insisted that he had been reconciled with the Church and had received its sacraments before dying. Hildegard protested bitterly when the local bishop forbade the celebration of or reception of the Eucharist at the Bingen monastery, a sanction that was lifted only a few months before her death.

In 2012, Hildegard was canonized and named a Doctor of the Church by Pope Benedict XVI.

Source: Franciscan Media