Chapter 33OrdV.1.33
Fides
Faith's Invitation to Living Water
Faith personified calls the noble daughters to behold the mirror of life and the spring of living water.
I am Faith, the mirror of life: come to me, noble daughters, and I will show you the spring of living water.
Read the original Latin
Ego Fides, speculum vite: venerables filie, venite ad me et ostendo vobis fontem salientem.
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