Chapter 14OrdV.1.14
Virtutes
The Soul Accuses Itself
A lament over the soul's shame before its Creator, calling the conscience to account for hiding from the very source of life.
O unhappy conscience, O wretched soul, why do you hide your face from your Creator?
Read the original Latin
O infelix conscientia, o misera Anima, quare abscondis faciem tuam coram creatore tuo?
Ordo Virtutum (Order of the Virtues) companion
Let a different Virtue meet you each morning
Chosen Portion walks you through the whole Ordo Virtutum — and Hildegard's Scivias — as free daily devotionals.
The Ordo was performed scene by scene by Hildegard's nuns, and Chosen Portion restores that rhythm — one scene of the Virtues' drama as each day's devotional.
- The complete 84-scene drama, one short scene per day, in modern readable English
- Each portion pairs the scene with its Scripture echoes — 26 references resolved across the play
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