In two letters to the clergy of Cologne and Trier she rates the carelessness and avarice of so many priests, and foretells, in what are for her unusually clear terms, the scourges that will follow
I love reading this. One of the great saints. There is a good English translation of Scivias, and it is very good spiritual reading. Also, her music is some of the most beautiful of all time. Just to update Butler’s excellent account here, Benedict XVII declared her a doctor of the Church!
O virgin Church, we must mourn, because a most savage wolf has snatched thy children from thy side. O woe to the trickery of the serpent! But o how precious is the blood of the Saviour, who with royal banner [i.e. the cross] wedded himself to the Church, from which he seeks her children.
I really need to study these books. Thank you for this. It is stuff like this which pulls me closer to this Church I’d imagine, its sense of the supernatural. However, it has to be said, that the modernists including the current occupant of the seat of St Peter want to snuff this out. If an assassin comes to you with a smile on his face then that makes their concealed dagger more deadly, not less so.
This Saint would have received no recognition from the Vatican as it is. This is why they wage ceaseless war on Tradition, if they are allowed they will gut the Church like a fish of all its supernatural lineage. She would have been dismissed and probably institutionalised by her own peers - the modernists, the Church of Human Fraternity, are attempting to decouple the Church entirely from the supernatural and they can’t be trusted and must be purged entirely and they are the clear majority of the Clergy. The Clergy cannot be trusted as sole stewards of the House of the Lord anymore; they have failed and God Himself will sweep them aside, once the Holy Spirit is loosed watch it burn through this Church and humble the proud by bringing them crashing down.
One of my favorites - although, there’s so much more to her story. When she was ordered to remove the body of the young man from her cemetery, and refused, the archbishop sent men to exhume it anyway, But Hildegard was much too clever. She had the nuns move the body - then dig throughout the cemetery so no one could tell where she had exhumed him from, nir where she moved him to. She was very brave and not afraid to rebuke clergy or the rich for their sins. Her initial internment with Jutta I was told was more of a true cloistering than a life in a cottage. Truly a great woman.
I love reading this. One of the great saints. There is a good English translation of Scivias, and it is very good spiritual reading. Also, her music is some of the most beautiful of all time. Just to update Butler’s excellent account here, Benedict XVII declared her a doctor of the Church!
Indeed he did. Thank you Charles
Here’s one of her antiphons, which we might all pray today: O virgo Ecclesia, plangendum est, quod sevissimus lupus filios tuos
de latere tuo abstraxit.
O ve callido serpenti!
Sed o quam preciosus est sanguis Salvatoris,
qui in vexillo regis
Ecclesiam ipsi desponsavit, unde filios
illius requirit.
O virgin Church, we must mourn, because a most savage wolf has snatched thy children from thy side. O woe to the trickery of the serpent! But o how precious is the blood of the Saviour, who with royal banner [i.e. the cross] wedded himself to the Church, from which he seeks her children.
I really need to study these books. Thank you for this. It is stuff like this which pulls me closer to this Church I’d imagine, its sense of the supernatural. However, it has to be said, that the modernists including the current occupant of the seat of St Peter want to snuff this out. If an assassin comes to you with a smile on his face then that makes their concealed dagger more deadly, not less so.
This Saint would have received no recognition from the Vatican as it is. This is why they wage ceaseless war on Tradition, if they are allowed they will gut the Church like a fish of all its supernatural lineage. She would have been dismissed and probably institutionalised by her own peers - the modernists, the Church of Human Fraternity, are attempting to decouple the Church entirely from the supernatural and they can’t be trusted and must be purged entirely and they are the clear majority of the Clergy. The Clergy cannot be trusted as sole stewards of the House of the Lord anymore; they have failed and God Himself will sweep them aside, once the Holy Spirit is loosed watch it burn through this Church and humble the proud by bringing them crashing down.
An amazing lady!
One of my favorites - although, there’s so much more to her story. When she was ordered to remove the body of the young man from her cemetery, and refused, the archbishop sent men to exhume it anyway, But Hildegard was much too clever. She had the nuns move the body - then dig throughout the cemetery so no one could tell where she had exhumed him from, nir where she moved him to. She was very brave and not afraid to rebuke clergy or the rich for their sins. Her initial internment with Jutta I was told was more of a true cloistering than a life in a cottage. Truly a great woman.