#sthildegard

[youaremyvoice]

you tie your shoelaces with bunny ears

nope!

send me assumptions and i’ll respond with “correct,” “nope,” or “kinda”

[jthnomad]

“She is so bright and glorious that you cannot look at her face or her garments for the splendor with which she shines. For she is terrible with the terror of the avenging lightning, and gentle with the goodness of the bright sun; and both her terror and her gentleness are incomprehensible to humans.... But she is with everyone and in everyone, and so beautiful is her secret that no person can know the sweetness with which she sustains people, and spares them in inscrutable mercy.” #sthildegard The secret is that we carry the Divine Mother within our hearts every day. Every time we show #love #kindness #compassion to our #family #friends - especially to random #strangers - we become #vessels of #divinelove We are literally all descendent from one primordial #eve - we carry her within our very blood & bones via #mitochondrial #dna All I can tell you is #ALL IS 💕 LOVE” #divinefeminine #allislove #divinelove #beloved #lovers #divine #mercy #mothersday #allyouneedislove #grace #magick #mysteries #thepath #peace #gentle https://www.instagram.com/jthnomad/p/BxbAuEKHA3I/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1se63btdjnj45

[herbanwytch]

Tonight’s light reading... so thrilled to have found this. Have been a Hildegard fan for decades🌿🌱🍃...#sthildegard #sthildegardofbingen #hildegardvonbingen #cookbooks #herbanlovespells #christmas (at Cleveland Heights, Ohio)

[corflammae]

Meet our composers: Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179)

Also known as Saint Hildegard and Sibyl of the Rhine, Hildegard von Bingen was a German writer, composer, philosopher, Christian mystic, Benedictine abbess, visionary, and polymath. Elected a magistra by her fellow nuns in 1136, she founded the monasteries of Rupertsberg in 1150 and Eibingen in 1165. One of her works as a composer, the Ordo Virtutum, is an early example of liturgical drama and arguably the oldest surviving morality play.

She wrote theological, botanical and medicinal texts, as well as letters, liturgical songs, and poems, while supervising miniature illuminations in the Rupertsberg manuscript of her first work, Scivias.

And yes, St. Hildegard might have even had a queer side. She had a close relationship with a fellow nun, Richardis von Stade, which some scholars believe may have been romantic in nature. When Richardis was appointed abbess elsewhere, Hildegard wrote letters urging that the decision be reversed, to no avail, only for Richardis to die shortly after her departure. Some believe the “anima” in Ordo Virtutum may represent Richardis, and her dying request (to her brother) is to return to Hildegard, like how the repentant anima returns to God in the morality play. Some scholars also attest to a pattern of focus on the female body and female desire throughout Hildegard’s music.

[sanctaveritas]

#76 Women should not approach the office of the altar

Below is a passage from Scivias, the visions of Saint Hildegard of Bingen who was a twelfth-century German nun and prophet who wrote prolifically on doctrinal matters, as well as secular matters like medicine. She publicly preached monastic reform and founded two nunneries.

The female saint recorded the distinction between priesthood for men and being a nun/sister for women. Easier-to-read text ::available here::

Book Two, Vision 6, #76

[God in her visions:] “So too those of female sex should not approach the office of My Altar; for they are infirm and weak habitation, appointed to bear children and diligently nurture them. A woman conceives a child not by herself but through a man, as the ground is plowed not by itself but by a farmer. Therefore, just as the earth cannot plow itself, a woman must not be a priest and do the work of consecrating the body and blood of My Son; though she can sing the praise of her Creator, as the earth can receive rain to water its fruits. And as the earth brings forth all fruits, so in Woman the fruit of all good works is perfected. How? Because she can receive the High Priest as Bridegroom. How? A virgin betrothed to My Son will receive Him as Bridegroom, for she has shut her body away from a physical husband; and in her Bridegroom she has the priesthood and all the ministry of My altar, and with Him possesses all its riches. And a widow too can be called a bride of My Son when she rejects a physical husband and flees beneath the wings of My Son’s protection. And as a bridegroom loves his bride with exceeding love, so does My Son sweetly embrace His brides, who for love of chastity eagerly run to Him.”