‘The mystery of God hugs you in its all-encompassing arms.”-
Prayers and Poems Include:
- Antiphon for the Angels
- Ave Generosa
- Ave Maria
- God’s Word is in all creation
- Loving Tenderness
- O glistening sunlight
- O greening branch
- Song to the creator
Hildegard on her own Writings
“But although I heard and saw these things, because of doubt and low opinion of myself and because of diverse sayings of men, I refused for a long time a call to write, not out of stubbornness but out of humility, until weighed down by a scourge of god, I fell onto a bed of sickness.”
Recommended Books
- Symphonia: A critical edition of the Symphonia armonie celestium revelationum: translated by B.J.Newman
- Scivias / Hildegard of Bingen; translated by Columba Hart and Jane Bishop; introduced by Barbara J. Newman; preface by Caroline Walker Bynum (The Classics of Western spirituality).
- Women in Praise of the Sacred: Ed Jane Hirshfield
- Teachings of the Christian Mystics Ed. Andrew Harvery