One of my favorite metaphors for the Holy Spirit is that of a musician. We find this expressed by the great mystic and composer Hildegard of Bingen. In her "Hymn to the Holy Spirit," she writes ...

sing antiphons as if they were hovering upon the very breath of the Holy Spirit Herself. This is September of 1179, during the last days of their founder, 81-year-old Hildegard von Bingen.

She promises that the Holy Spirit “comes softly to a faithful soul and wondrously brings all its strength.” Hildegard says, “When any faithful heart fixes its spirit upon God, it cannot be ...

It trains attention on the body of the Virgin Mary, not merely as a vessel of divinity but as a holy ... 1150, Hildegard left Disibodenberg and founded a new abbey in the area of Bingen, about ...

Hildegard of Bingen said we should sing because ... Glory to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit! He erased the anguish from our flesh. How miraculous— that a king would stoop to enter ...

As depicted in the German director Margarethe von Trotta's new film, Vision: From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen, Hildegard was creative, passionate, fierce, dogged, manipulative, holy ...

Every gift from the Holy Spirit is meant for the edification of the community of believers, taught the Pope at Wednesday's general audience. Dedicating his catechesis to St. Hildegard of Bingen ...

Hildegard of Bingen, “one of the few prominent woman ... Hildegard started to have more visions “in full view with eyes of spirit and inward ears according to God’s will,” noted Robert ...

When I first read about St. Hildegard of Bingen, the most recently named female ... But Hildegard was very real, and her life as a holy nun nestled in her monastery, building a world of music ...

This music was written by Hildegard of Bingen, who lived nearly 1000 years ago in Germany. Inspiration came to her as visions that only she could see, and she believed they were from God.