Chapter 28OrdV.1.28
Virtutes
The Gift of Holy Fear
The Virtues praise Fear as a necessary and beloved companion that keeps them united to God.
O Fear, you are deeply useful to us: we have a perfect zeal never to be separated from you.
Read the original Latin
O Timor, valde utilis es nobis: habemus enim perfectum studium numquam a te separari.
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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