Chapter 34OrdV.1.34
Virtutes
Confidence in the True Fountain
The Virtues address a serene figure, expressing confidence that through her they will reach the true fountain.
O serene one, you who have watched over us, we are confident that through you we will reach the true fountain.✦✦
Read the original Latin
O serena, speculata, habemus fiduciam pervenire ad verum fontem per te.
Scripture echoes
- ↩John.4.14 — but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst forever; rather, the water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life
- ↩Ps.36.9 — They drink their fill of the abundance of your house, and from your river of delights you give them drink.
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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