Chapter 32OrdV.1.32
Virtutes
A Zealous Summons
The Virtues are called to approach the sweetest summoner with fervent devotion.
O sweetest summoner, it is fitting that we come to you with great zeal.
Read the original Latin
O dulcissima vocatrix, nos decet in magno studio pervenire ad te.
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