Chapter 3OrdV.1.3
Patriarche et prophete
Shadow and Branch
The patriarchs and prophets declare that while they were but a shadow in Christ, the faithful are now the living branches bearing fruit from the same root.
We are the roots and you the branches, fruit of the living eye, and we were a shadow in him.✦
Read the original Latin
Nos sumus radices et vos rami, fructus viventis oculi, et nos umbra in illo fuimus.
Scripture echoes
- ↩John.15.5 — I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who abides in me, and I in him, this one bears much fruit; for apart from me you can do nothing.
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
- Finish Hildegard, then continue with 70+ other works from Europe's royal devotional archive