Humilitas
Humility's Royal Invitation
Humility, queen of the Virtues, calls all the Virtues to herself so that she may nourish them to seek the lost drachma and be crowned with happy perseverance.
I am Humility, queen of the Virtues, and I say: come to me, all you Virtues, and I will nourish you to seek out the lost drachma and to be crowned with a happy perseverance.✦
Read the original Latin
Ego, Humilitas, regina Virtutum, dico: venite ad me, Virtutes, et enutriam vos ad requirendam perditam dragmam et ad coronandum in perseverantia felicem.
Scripture echoes
- ↩Luke.15.8-Luke.15.10 — Or what woman, having ten drachmas, if she loses one drachma, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and search carefully until she finds it? Luke.15.9 — and having found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found the drachma that I had lost.' Luke.15.10 — In the same way, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.
Ordo Virtutum (Order of the Virtues) companion
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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.
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