Holy Benedictines!

Hildegardof Bingen and other Holy Benedictines

Saint Scholastica Monastery Oblate MeetingSister Edith Bogue & Sister Paule Pierre BarbeauNovember 9, 2014

http://forallsaints.wordpress.com/2011/09/17/hildegard-abbess-of-bingen-and-mystic-1179/

Horarium• Midday Prayer• Announcements• Conference

– Saints in November, the Rule, and our tradition– Hildegard of Bingen– Communion of Saints

• Break for the needs of nature• Coffee and Discussion: Your holy Benedictines

Announcements

• Sister Simone Campbell, Attorney, Poet, and Activist– 2:30 p.m.- 3:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 10: Coffee, dessert,

and discussion with Sister Simone and the Sisters– 5:15 p.m. - 6 p.m. Monday, Nov. 10: Vespers– 12 p.m. - 1:40 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 11: Lecture: "Catholic

Intellectual Tradition in the Streets," Mitchell Auditorium – 7:30 p.m. - 9 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 11: "Joy in the Gospel:

Acting for Justice in a Turbulent World" in Mitchell

• Christmas Sale – helpers & customers needed• Oblation Ceremony – December 14 at 3pm

– Reception follows the ceremony.

November

• All Saints Day – celebrate the saints, known and unknown.

• All Souls Day – commemorate and pray for all who have died, especially this year.

• Liturgical year – scriptures of end times, judgment, eternity, and hope of life with Christ.

The Communion of Saints Andrew Kim Taegon, Agnes, Bede, Alphonsus Ligouri, John Neumann Tapestry Nine, North Wall The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels. http://www.johnnava.com/JNS%20Archive/COS/nw09.htm

Saints in Benedict’s Rule

• Ch 14: Liturgy onfeasts of saints.

• Ch 58: God andthe saints hear the promises of the new member – and those promises are made “in the name of the saints whose relics are there…”

• Ch 73: “there are the teachings of the holy Fathers… what else are these … than instruments of virtue?”

http://blogs.nd.edu/oblation/2014/10/09/say-what-you-really-mean-the-common-language-of-the-church/

Saints in the Monastic Tradition

• Elisha asking for a share of the spirit of his teacher Elijah, takes up his mantle

• Desert Abbas and Ammas kept & treasured the words of their teachers.

• Monasteries venerated saints; many Benedictine saints in the old calendar.

Tapestries of Our Lady of the Angels Cathedral in Los Angeles, from Hartford Catholic Bible School http://bjdhorehartford.blogspot.com/2014/01/weekly-bible-study-john-129-34.html

The Many Faces of the Saints

Hildegardof Bingen

http://forallsaints.wordpress.com/2011/09/17/hildegard-abbess-of-bingen-and-mystic-1179/

Early Life• b. 1098, Bermersheim• Youngest of 10 children• Family of free lower nobility

• In the service of the Count Meginhard of Sponheim)

• Sickly from birth• Experienced visions at a very young age• 8 y old entrusted Jutta (anchoress)• 14 y old entered Disibodenberg monastery• Jutta & Volmarhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bermersheim

Disibodenberg Monastery

http://www.deutscheweine.de/icc/Internet-EN/nav/ac4/ac470693-6826-7e21-e66b-48554c41ed8b&_ic_uCon=1ce6006c-3d07-0f21-c79b-27a504c41ed8

Disibodenberg Monastery

http://www.deutscheweine.de/icc/Internet-EN/nav/ac4/ac470693-6826-7e21-e66b-48554c41ed8b&_ic_uCon=1ce6006c-3d07-0f21-c79b-27a504c41ed8

Visionary Theology• 1136 Jutta died

– Hildegard - magistra (38 y)• 1141 Vision “Speak and write”

– Resisted the call at first– Scivias (Know the Ways)– (describes 26 religious visions)– 10 y (1142-1151)– Includes artwork, songs, and an

opera (Ordo Virtutum)• 1147 Bernard of Clairvaux, Pope Eugene III

Illumination from Sciviashttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hildegard_of_Bingen

Scivias

1st Visionof the

First Part

God; Illumination of the First Vision of the First Part of the Sciviashttp://www.hildegardadebingen.com.ar/Scivias_1_1a.htm

Foundations• 1148 Vision calling her to move her convent

1150 Founded monastery Rupertsberg• 1165 Founded monastery Eibingen

• A Bermersheim• B Disiboden• C Rupertsberg• D Eibingen

Rupertsberg

http://www.hildegard.org/wirk/erupert.html

Eibingen

http://jaxstumpes.blogspot.com/2014/05/rhine-getaway-cruising-rhine-4212014.html

Visionary Theology• 1158-63 Liber Vitae Meritorum

(Book of the Rewards of Life)• Dramatic confrontation

between virtues and vices• One of the earliest depictions

of purgatory where soul works off its debt in order to enter heaven

• Practical guide to life of true penance and proper virtue

• Moral and pastoral workhttp://www.abtei-st-hildegard.de/?page_id=153

Preaching Journeys

• 1158 Vision– visit communities

• 1158-1171– 4 journeys

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hildegard_of_Bingen

Visionary Theology

• 1163/4-1172/74• Liber divinorum operum

(Book of Divine Works)• 10 visions• Creation, salvation, exegesis

of John 1, Revelation

http://www.kingsacademy.com/mhodges/11_Western-Art/12_High-Medieval/Hildegard/Hildegard.htm

Other Writings• Medicine (Causae et Curae, Physica)• Lives of Saints Disibod and Rupert• Commentaries on Rule of Benedict and

Athanasian Creed• Expositiones Evangeliorum• Litterae ignotae

• Poetry • 300+ letters

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingua_Ignota

Music• Symphonia harmonie

caelestium revelationum– 1140’s began composing– ~ 1175 Symphonia– liturgical cycle with

antiphons, responsories, sequences, hymns, a kyrie and an alleluia, including references to the appropriate feasts

‘O gloriosissimi’, antiphon from Hildegard of Bingen's ‘Symphonia armonie celestium revelationum’, c1163–1175 (Dendermonde Abbey, MS 9)[Benedictine Abbey of St Peter and Paul]http://www.mifami.org/eLibrary/Hildegard_of_Bingen-Grove_Music-Article.htm

Later Life

• 1178 Interdict– Lifted March 1179

• d. Sep. 17, 1179 (~90 y)• 1233 Pope Gregory IX

– Proceedings for canonization– Failed

• Canonized May 10, 2012– Pope Benedict XVI

http://swissdefenceleague.wordpress.com/2014/09/01/hildegard-of-bingen-visionary/

http://symphonialisestanima.wordpress.com/2012/04/19/23/

St. Hildegard of Bingen, OSB• Theologian• Philosopher• Poet• Musician• Writer• Mystic• Visionary• Prophet• Physician• Abbess• Polymath

Marcy Hallhttp://rabbitroomarts.blogspot.com/

Ordo Virtutum

Ordo Virtutum Text

Other

Holy Benedictines

Tapestries of Our Lady of the Angels Cathedral in Los Angeles, from Hartford Catholic Bible School http://bjdhorehartford.blogspot.com/2014/01/weekly-bible-study-john-129-34.html

The Communion of SaintsTwelve untitled figures, including children of all ages, represent the many anonymous holy people in our midst.

Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels - José Rafael Moneohttp://www.pinterest.com/pin/405605510164167205/

Living with Saints Liturgical calendar or

prayer books with lives of saints

Live & learn with one for weeks or months(James Martin, SJ: My Life with the Saints)

Traditional patrons for work, family, need.

Be alert to the saints God sends your way.

Calendars of Saints & Seasons

• Catholic:http://www.usccb.org/about/divine-worship/liturgical-calendar/index.cfm

• Lutheran : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_of_Saints_(Lutheran)

• Episcopal: http://www.episcopalchurch.org/lectionary-calendar

"All the Saints are our older brothers in the one House of the Heavenly Father. Having gone from earth to heaven, they are always with us in God....

They serve together with us, they sing, they speak, they instruct, they help us in various temptations and sorrows.

Call upon them as living with you under a single roof; glorify them, thank them, converse with them as with living people; and you will believe in the Church.”

Saint John of Kronstadt

Hildegardof Bingen and other Holy Benedictines

Saint Scholastica Monastery Oblate MeetingSister Edith Bogue & Sister Paule Pierre BarbeauNovember 9, 2014