A Burning Spirit – Aug. 22, 2019
Who is the Holy Spirit?The Holy Spirit is a Burning Spirit.Like tympanum and lyre it plays them,gathering volume in the temple of the soul.The Holy Spirit isLife-giving-life.All movement. Root of all being.Purifier of all impurity.Absolver of all faults.Balm of all wounds.Radiant life, worthy of all praiseThe Holy Spirit resurrects and awakenseverything that is. –Hildegard of […]
Divine Wisdom – Aug. 21, 2019
I, the fiery life of divine wisdom,I ignite the beauty of the plains.I sparkle the waters.I burn in the sun, and the moon, and the stars.With wisdom I order ALL rightly.Above ALL I determine truth. –Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179)
Earth is Mother of All – Aug. 20, 2019
The earth is at the same time mother, she is mother of all that is natural, mother of all that is human. She is the mother of all for contained in her are the seeds of all. The earth of humankindcontains all moistness, all verdancy, all germinating power. –Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179)
Spark of Life – Aug. 19, 2019
Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) saw God in every aspect of creation. At a time when women were usually illiterate and untutored, Hildegard entered religious life as a child and rose to become the head of an independent women’s monastery in 1151. She composed music, wrote books, practiced medicine, preached throughout Western Europe and was sought […]